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- ADB to help create funds for clean energy projects
for Pakistan, other Asian countries
Apr 18, 2008 - Asia Pulse Data Source
The Asian Development Bank will help establish
five private sector funds targeting investments
of up to $1.2 billion (750 million euros) for clean
energy projects in Asia, the bank said Thursday.
The Manila-based bank said it will provide $20
million (euro12.56 million) to each of the five
private equity funds, for total seed money of $100
million (euro63 million).
- Japan's
Mitsubishi Electric plans major solar cell
investment
Mar 19, 2008 - Thomson Financial
Japan's Mitsubishi Electric Corp said Wednesday it planned to invest 7 billion
yen to boost production of solar cells as global demand rises on high oil costs
and environmental awareness.
- Kansai
Electric succeeds in injecting large amount
of CO2 into coal beds
Jan 28, 2008 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Kyodo News International, Tokyo
Kansai Electric Power Co. said Monday it has succeeded in an experiment to inject
a large amount of carbon dioxide into deep coal beds by using nitrogen for the
first time in the world.
- Japan
PM to announce aid for poor nations to fight
global warming
Jan 10, 2008 - BBCMonitoring
Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda will announce a five-year 1 trillion yen package
to help developing countries combat global warming when he attends a World Economic
Forum meeting in Switzerland later this month, government sources said Thursday.
- Inner
Mongolia Installs Wind Generators with 1000MW
Capacity
Sep 28, 2007 - SinoCast
Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, a pioneer of clean energy development in China,
announces that the combined installed capacity of all wind power generator sets
in the region exceeds 1000 megawatts, the biggest in the country.
- Taiwan
to Expand Its Wind Power Capacity
Sep 28, 2007 - International Herald Tribune
Taiwan may spend more than 100 billion New Taiwan dollars, or $3 billion, during
the next three years to increase wind power capacity tenfold and cut coal and
gas imports. "Renewable energy can help us reduce dependence on overseas resources," Wang
Yunn-ming, the deputy director general of Taiwan's energy bureau, said Thursday.
- Renewable
energy can save Southeast Asia 2 trln usd in
fuel costs - Greenpeace
Aug 23, 2007 - Thomson Financial - AFX News
SINGAPORE - Shifting to renewable energy could save Southeast Asian countries
as much as two trillion US dollars in fuel costs over the next 23 years, or more
than 80 billion dollars annually, environmental group Greenpeace said Thursday.
- Inner
Mongolia Plans 33,000 MW of Installed Wind
Power
Aug. 9, 2007 - MARKET WIRE
Inner Mongolia is one of the provinces (regions) with the richest wind resources
in China. However, utilization of wind power is quite limited.
- Indonesia
to build 33,000 more solar power generators
Jun 29, 2007 - AsiaPulse
The Indonesian government is planning to build 33,000 more solar power generators
for 33,000 households living in remote areas, an Energy and Mineral Resources
Ministry official said.
- South
Korea to build world's largest tidal power
station
May 04, 2007 - AsiaPulse
South Korea's Incheon City said Thursday that it plans to build the world's largest
tidal power station on Ganghwa Island by 2014.
- Wind
energy cuts Taiwan CO2 emissions by 250,000
tons a year
Apr 22, 2007 -- BBC Monitoring
The number of wind turbines along Taiwan's west coast now surpasses 100, and
the renewable energy generated by these units is sufficient to prevent the emission
of 250,000 tons of carbon dioxide a year, energy officials said Sunday.
- Asia-Pacific
Partnership Yields Renewable Energy and Efficiency
Projects
Nov 8, 2006 EERE Network
Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs Dr. Paula J. Dobriansky
today announced that the United States and the other five Partner nations of
the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate have endorsed detailed
Action Plans and nearly 100 collaborative projects and activities to implement
this initiative. The announcement was made in remarks to experts from all Partner
nations gathered in Columbus, Ohio, to attend a week-long series of site visits
organized and hosted by American Electric Power, one of the private sector partners.
http://www.energyvortex.com/pages/headlinedetails.cfm?id=2528
- Bangladesh lights up!
When Bangladesh gained independence in 1971 it turned to an international co-operative
association to help supply electricity to its rural areas. Three decades on the
programme begun by the National Rural Electric Co-operative Association (NRECA)
is recognised as one of the most successful rural electrification projects in
the developing world. It has also proved one of the most effective development
initiatives in the whole of Bangladesh.
http://www.developments.org.uk/co-op/light-up.htm
- Viet Nam pursues renewable energy to
avoid power shortage
Viet Nam is accelerating the drawing up of a strategy to develop renewable energy,
considering this to be a solution to escape from the "hunger" for energy
in the near future, a senior industrial official said.
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