February 28, 2008 (Bangkok Post) – Thailand is developing a master plan to build the country into the world’s second largest green energy producer after Brazil. Energy Minister Poonpirom Liptapanlop said she wanted to see the country become a net exporter of green energy to tap strong global demand.
To achieve the goal, authorities plan to [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Poonpirom wants to make Thailand world-class ‘green energy’ hub
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Biomass, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Crude Palm Oil, Solar, Thailand, Wind on February 28, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Sharp looks abroad for thin-film solar cell output
Posted in Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Japan, Solar, Thin-film Solar on February 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 27, 2008 (Reuters) – Japan’s Sharp Corp, which aims to become the world’s biggest maker of solar cells, is looking abroad to raise annual output of thin-film solar cells by sixfold to 6,000 megawatts after 2012 and beat silicon shortages.
Sharp aims to raise its annual thin-film solar cell production capacity “as soon as possible” [...]
China’s construction industry getting greener
Posted in China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Energy Efficiency, Geothermal, Green Building on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
February 26, 2008 (Xinhua) – China’s green construction system, with a market value estimated at 1.5 trillion yuan (US$208 billion), is growing through energy-efficient projects, the Ministry of Construction said here on Tuesday. Qiu Baoxing, deputy head of the ministry, said the construction area involved had increased by 2 billion square meters [...]
Vietnam connects new hydroelectric plant
Posted in Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Hydro, Vietnam on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 4, 2008 (UPI) – The Tuyen Quang hydroelectric plant’s generator was connected to the national power grid in Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency reported. The plant, which cost more than $438 million to build, will have three generators when finished with a total capacity of 342 megawatts.
Lehman starts emissions trading in Japan, will sell UN credits
Posted in Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Japan, Renewable Energy on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 26, 2008 (Bloomberg) – Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., the fourth-largest U.S. securities firm, said it would trade United Nation emission credits in Japan, the first non-Japanese bank to win permission to buy and sell the environmental products there. Lehman has opened an account in Japan’s emissions registry, an ownership tracking system, the bank said [...]
Thirst for electricity threatens Australian targets
Posted in Australia, Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Legislation, Renewable Energy on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 26, 2008 (Canberra Times) – Australia’s rapidly escalating electricity consumption remains the biggest risk to meeting its Kyoto treaty targets, a new Federal Government report warns. A Department of Climate Change analysis of national greenhouse emission trends estimates Australia’s emissions from electricity use will increase 59 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020.
Despite use [...]
Victoria to get solar power plant
Posted in Australia, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Solar on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 25, 2008 (The Age) – A project to build a solar power plant in Victoria with $79.5 million promised by the former Howard government has been launched by new Climate Change Minister Penny Wong. Despite the former Howard government committing the money to the project she was launching, Ms Wong attacked her predecessors, saying [...]
GreenAir, Carbon Broker, to Raise A$100 Million
Posted in Australia, Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
February 25, 2008 (Bloomberg) – GreenAir, a carbon credit dealer, is seeking to raise A$100 million ($92.4 million) ahead of plans for an initial public offering after the Australian government signed the Kyoto Protocol, the Australian Financial Review said. The Sydney-based company, established by former Westpac Banking Corp. executive Himanshu Dua, is trying to secure [...]
Fairchild Semiconductor Selects Pune for Energy Efficiency R&D Center
Posted in Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Energy Efficiency, India on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 4, 2008 (Company release) – Fairchild Semiconductor, a global supplier of high-performance products that drive energy-efficiency, has opened a design center in Pune, India. This research and design (R&D) center will be responsible for designing and developing the company’s new generation of power MOSFETs and IGBT technology to support popular applications such as solar [...]
Jakarta hit by scheduled blackouts in bid to save power supply
Posted in Coal, Indonesia on February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 23, 2008 (Reuters) - Jakarta’s commercial and residential districts were hit by scheduled power cuts for several hours on Saturday as part of a desperate attempt by Indonesia’s state electricity firm to save dwindling supplies. Java, Indonesia’s most heavily populated island, and Bali, the neighbouring resort island, were hit by serious outages last week as bad weather [...]
