With the Tennessee Valley Authority aiming to up the nuclear manufacturing of electricity, the utility's top executives are prepared to explain a plot to restrain some coal-fired operations.

American market can see the entry of solar thermal power provided developers can cut costs so that the technology can be cost competitive and manage to get the huge amount of money needed for investment for the renewable energy plant.  

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has bagged a contract for setting up a 1,200 MW thermal power plant (2x600 MW) in Chhattisgarh.

This order placed by Dainik Bhaskar Power Limited (DBPL), an Independent Power Producer (IPP), is worth Rs26.65 billion for supplying and installing the main plant package for their upcoming coal-based thermal power project, located at Baradarha in Janjgir district of Chhattisgarh.

Spain will now house the new La Florida solar plant which promises a solar output to 432MW, which is more than USA’s output of 422MW. In this plant, sunlight will be reflected off a parabolic mirror in a trough, on to a tube filled with liquid.

The world’s top contract chipmaker called Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330. TW) plans to invest more than three hundred billion Taiwanese dollar ($9.4 billion) for tapping the global chip industry growth and in the process provide eight thousand eight hundred new employments in a new plant located in Taiwan over a period of next few years.

Gujarat Gokul Power Limited, the legal entity of Gokul Group based out of Sidhpur is considering to set up a 80 MW power plant which would be a thermal power station using lignite. The project cost is estimated to be around RS 460 crore to come up in Surat near one of its ditrict Tadkeshwar.

Subsidiary of Essar Energy, Essar Power has said that it is looking forward to buy Navabharat Power Pvt. Ltd in Orissa.

The total capacity of the power company is 2250 MW and Essar has said that it will first buy 74 per cent stake and the rest will follow after some of Navbharat's key projects are over.