According to a motion passed at the 12th conference of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress, China's Renewable Energy Law will be revised and the new law will be enacted on April 1, 2010.

Huaneng Power International's Hunan Yongzhou Xiangqi Hydropower Station Project has been approved by the Development and Reform Commission in Hunan.

The China Power Investment Corporation has formally unveiled its initiative to create a large energy industry conglomerate in northwest China with the commencement of the Hongdunzi Project for the Ningdong Energy and Chemical Base in the Ningxia Zhuang Autonomous Region.

China Guodian Corporation has signed a purchase and sale agreement on the 4.2 million tons of carbon emission reductions with Lehman Brothers.

Zhejiang Electric Power Corporation has released the first corporate social responsibility report in State Grid Corporation of China system since the enforcement of "Guidelines to State Grid Corporation of China on Fulfilling Social Responsibility".

China's Ministry of Environmental Protection has fined Guangdong Power Grid Corporation RMB200,000 and asked it to stop using the two construction projects in Maoming and Zhanjiang that were built without approval and put into operation without undergoing relevant environmental inspections.

Dongfang Electric, one of the government-owned companies in China that suffered the most from Sichuan earthquake, has signed a power generation deal valued at about RMB4.5 billion with China Huaneng Group, one of the largest power suppliers in China.