February 26, 2008 (The Australian) – A move to develop a national agenda to create a multi-billion-dollar industry producing liquid transport fuels from coal and gas will be launched today by the Rudd Government.
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will use a conference in Brisbane to set the scene for gas and coal offsetting Australia’s huge and growing [...]
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Australian industry looks to gas, coal for transport fuel
Posted in Australia, Coal, Diesel, Gas, Legislation, Transportation on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
Need to focus on sustainable power generation stressed (Pakistan)
Posted in Biomass, Clean Energy, Coal, Hydro, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Renewable Energy, Solar, U.S. on February 13, 2008 | 5 Comments »
February 12, 2008 (The International News) – A household can lit a candle or an emergency light to illuminate the house, but it does not work for the industry, as it requires uninterrupted power supply. Industry is facing a production loss due to current power crisis.
Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI) President Shaikh Fazal [...]
StatoilHydro and ONGC cooperate (India)
Posted in Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Carbon capture, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, India on February 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 9, 2008 (The Norway Post) -
StatoilHydro and the Indian oil company ONGC have agreed to jointly explore the potential of developing Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), and CDM (clean development mechanism) projects in India.
A memorandum of understanding has been signed by StatoilHydro’s Mrs Alexandra Bech Gjørv, Senior Vice President New Energy, and Mr Michel [...]
Thailand’s greener energy future
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Biogas, Biomass, Carbon Credits, Carbon capture, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Crude Palm Oil, Energy Efficiency, Ethanol, GHG, LNG, Legislation, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Small-hydro, Solar, Solar Thermal, Thailand, Transportation, Waste Management, Waste to Energy, Wind on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 11, 2008 (Bangkok Post) – To cope with high oil prices and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Thailand must pursue four options: development of renewable energy, energy efficiency, nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage. However, renewable energy has certain limitations, and options for each country are different depending on availability of natural resources, technologies [...]
6 Key steps to meet Singapore’s energy needs
Posted in Air Pollution, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, Hydro, LNG, Legislation, Oil, Renewable Energy, Singapore, Solar, Solar Thermal on February 11, 2008 | 3 Comments »
February 10, 2008 (Lin Yanqin and Esther Fung) Spiralling oil prices, growing global demand for energy, limited and uncertain supplies from oil-producing countries, climate change from greenhouse gas emissions – these are the challenges faced by a Singapore dependent on imports for energy needs.But even if Singapore has to be a “price-taker” in meeting its [...]
3-Pronged Profits from China’s Worst Winter
Posted in Australia, China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Renewable Energy, Solar, U.S. on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 10, 2008 (Seeking Alpha) – It was the worst winter in half a century in the Middle Kingdom, throwing China into a coal energy crisis and giving us several ways to play China’s power problems.
You probably saw the unbelievable photos like this one:
Those are some of the hundreds of thousands of travelers stuck at [...]
Letter from Shell CEO
Posted in Biodiesel, Carbon Offset, China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Conservation, Diesel, EU, Emissions Reduction, Energy Efficiency, GHG, Green chemicals, Hybrid, Hydro, LNG, Legislation, Ocean/Tidal, Recycling, Renewable Energy, Solar, Traditional Energy, U.K., U.S. on January 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From: Jeroen van der Veer, Chief Executive
To: All Shell employees
Date: 22 January 2008 Subject: Shell Energy Scenarios
Dear Colleagues
In this letter, I’d like to share reflections about how we see the energy future, and our preferred route to meeting the world’s energy needs. Industry, governments and energy users – that is, all of [...]
Solar and Clean Energy Developments in India
Posted in Biomass, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Coal, Geothermal, Hydro, India, Small-hydro, Solar, Wind on December 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
December 25, 2007 (Business Standard) – When Internet search major Google Inc decided to power its “Googleplex” in Mountain View with one of the largest solar panel installations in the world last year, it was a big vote for solar energy, which presently provides less than 1 per cent of the energy generated worldwide.
Though the [...]
