January 16, 2008 (Thomson Financial) - Finnish oil refiner Neste Oil said Tuesday that its biodiesel plant in Singapore, its largest, will be operational 2010 and initially cater to Europe’s growing biofuel requirement.The company’s investment of 550 million euros to build the plant, which will have an annual capacity of 800,000 tons, is in line [...]
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Finland’s Neste Oil says Singapore biodiesel plant to be operational in 2010
Posted in Biodiesel, Biofuels, Cleantech venture capital, Crude Palm Oil, Diesel, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Transportation on January 16, 2008 | No Comments »
LDK Shares Jump 30% on Q-Cells Deal - signs a decade-long deal to supply solar cell-maker Q-cells with wafers
Posted in China, Germany, Solar on December 11, 2007 | No Comments »
December 10, 2007 (GreenTechMedia) - Chinese giant LDK Solar’s (NYSE: LDK) shares jumped 28.55 percent Monday after the company said it signed a 10-year deal to sell 6 gigawatts worth of silicon wafers to Germany solar-cell maker Q-Cells.
Although financial details were sparse, the contract calls for Q-Cells (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: QCEG.DE) to pay a fixed [...]
Merkel asks India to do more on climate change
Posted in Climate Change, Germany, India on October 31, 2007 | No Comments »
October 30, 2007 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged India, one of the world’s biggest polluters, to do more to combat climate change on Tuesday, saying her country was willing to help New Delhi make progress.
Merkel, a former environment minister who has pushed global warming to the top of her international agenda, said rich [...]
Energy MOU on cards during Merkel’s visit to India
Posted in Climate Change, Energy Efficiency, Germany, India, Renewable Energy on October 29, 2007 | No Comments »
October 29, 2007 (Times of India) - Climate change and energy will be key elements of discussions between Germany and India when German chancellor Angela Merkel makes her maiden visit to the country between October 29-November 1. The two countries will also sign an MoU on energy efficiency and renewable energy with Germany committing 150 [...]
China Power Investment, Germany’s KfW sign carbon credit deal
Posted in Carbon Credits, China, Germany on October 24, 2007 | No Comments »
October 24, 2007 (XFN-ASIA) - BEIJING: China Power Investment said it has signed a carbon credit agreement with Germany’s KfW Bankengruppe involving 4 mln tons of carbon dioxide equivalent.
The credits will be purchased from China Power’s 11 wind power farms, which have installed capacity of 420,000 kilowatts.
China Power Investment has also signed carbon credit deals [...]
RWE Buying Coal Mine Methane CERs in China
Posted in Carbon Credits, China, Coal, Germany on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
September 19, 2007 (Reuters) - RWE Power, an arm of German utility RWE (RWEG.DE), expects to start collecting emissions reduction credits from its first coal mine methane project in China in 2008, and is eyeing others, a company official said. Andreas Feldmann, director of the firm’s Climate Protection Projects in China, said he expected to [...]
