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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.
  
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• 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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