(EnergyAsia, November 13, Friday)— Greenpeace has called on US President Barack Obama, visiting Asia for the first time since taking office early this year, to help save Indonesia’s threatened rainforests as part of a bigger commitment to fight climate change. Accusing his government of blocking progress ahead of the critical UN climate negotiations at Copenhagen...

(EnergyAsia, November 13, Friday) — The Australian government has awarded A$235 million to support four commercial-scale renewable energy projects from the national Renewable Energy Demonstration Program (REDP). (US$1=A$1.08.). The companies leading the projects are MNGI Pty Ltd (Petratherm), Geodynamics Pty Ltd, Victorian Wave Partners Pty Ltd and the Hydro-Electric Corporation (Hydro Tasmania). Resources and Energy...

(EnergyAsia, November 13, Friday) — Dhaka, Manila and Jakarta are at the top of WWF’s list of the climate vulnerability of 11 major cities in Asia. As heads of states gather in Singapore for the APEC summit, WWF said that developed and developing countries must cooperate to prepare these cities for a brutal climate future,...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Singapore’s Anwell Technologies Limited said its wholly owned subsidiary, Sungen International Limited, last month signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with US-based Solargen Energy Inc to supply amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin film solar panels for use in large scale commercial solar farm projects. Solargen develops, owns and operates large-scale commercial...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Anwell Technologies Limited, a Singapore-listed supplier of advanced manufacturing equipment and process technologies for the optical disc, OLED and solar industries, recently produced its first amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film solar panel at its 40MW plant in Henan province in China. Last month, Anwell announced that wholly-owned subsidiary Sungen International Limited...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Two Japanese companies, TonenGeneral and Toray Industries, have announced they will establish a global joint venture for the battery separator film business by next January. It will develop, manufacture and sell lithium ion battery (LIB) separator film and introduce next-generation films to the market. TonenGeneral, an ExxonMobil Chemical affiliate, and...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Tata Power, India’s largest integrated private power utility, and SN Power, Norway’s fast-growing international renewable energy company, have signed an exclusive partnership agreement to jointly develop hydropower projects in India and Nepal. Tata said this is the first time it has entered into an exclusive partnership with another hydropower company....

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Amid the rave reviews, announcements of government support and rush of investment dollars, the electric vehicle industry is facing doubts about its viability—even from within its own ranks. Japan’s Toyota is going slow on developing an all-electric car, planning to introduce one only in 2012 or far later than rivals...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Just months before the world meets in Copenhagen in December to work out a new climate deal, China and India have signed a five-year agreement to improve cooperation on combating global warming. Under the bilateral pact, the countries will work together on energy conservation and efficiency, renewable energy and forest...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles company of France, said it has entered into a sales agreement with China’s Suntech Power Holdings Co Ltd, to supply up to 115 megawatts of photovoltaic modules in 2010. enXco said the agreement will enable it to execute on its growing portfolio of 2010 projects...

(EnergyAsia, November 12, Thursday) — Thai upstream company PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited (PTTEP) said it has deepened its push into Australia’s upstream sector with its latest agreement to buy an exploration block from two Australian companies. Anon Sirisaengtaksin, PTTEP’s CEO, said it has agreed to pay Stuart Petroleum Limited and Albers Group...

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — Alfa Laval, a Swedish engineering group provide heat transfer, centrifugal separation and fluid handling services said it has received a 100 million krona order from PetroVietnam Group to build an ethanol biofuels plant in northern Vietnam. (US$1=6.85 krona). The order includes the delivery of equipment and engineering solutions next year....

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — Singapore’s drive to become a clean and renewable energy centre has opened up opportunities for its institutions of higher learning and training to play an important role in helping to develop new industries as well as expertise and skills for the country’s youth. One of the key institutions, Singapore Polytechnic,...

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — Keppel Integrated Engineering Limited (KIE), a subsidiary of Singapore’s Keppel Corp, said it has started commercial operations for a waste-to-energy plant in Tuas, Singapore. The plant has the capacity to treat 800 tonnes of solid waste a day to generate more than 20 MW of electricity for 25 years. It...

(EnergyAsia )— The Linde Group said its subsidiary, BOC India (BOCI), has won four new long-term gas supply deals in India with large domestic photovaltic (PV) manufacturers, Moser Baer, Euro Multivision, Solar Semiconductor and Indo Solar (formerly Phoenix Solar). Linde said the sales will reinforce its position as India’s leading gas technology supplier to the...

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — Singapore’s Energy Market Authority (EMA) will select a group to review the country’s electricity and gas network systems as it works to prevent future power and gas supply interruptions. The study, for which the agency has issued a tender document, will aim to strengthen Singapore’s inter-linked electricity and gas systems...

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — China’s Solarfun Power said it has signed a contract to deliver five megawatts of PV modules to Meridian Neue Energien GmbH, a leading new energy project developer in Germany. The PV modules will be applied to six roof top projects, which are expected to be completed and grid connected in...

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — Climate change will threaten food security and agriculture, bringing famine and chronic hunger to the poorest regions around the world, said the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO). Many developing countries, particularly in Africa, could become increasingly dependent on food imports. While the global impact of climate change on food...

(EnergyAsia, November 11, Wednesday) — For the first time worldwide, free and ready-to-use high-resolution satellite data is now available to monitor forests and help reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. The monitoring system has been launched by the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and other partners as part of the Global Forest Resources...

(EnergyAsia, November 10, Tuesday) — China is making progress toward controlling greenhouse gas emissions, according to new research by the US-based Word Resources Institute (WRI). “In the last five years, Chinese leaders have embarked on policies to increase energy efficiency, using targets, quotas and a few taxes,” said Deborah Seligsohn and lead author of China,...

(EnergyAsia, November 10, Tuesday) — Recent oil finds may not be big enough or developed fast enough to prevent a supply crunch in the next few years given the pace of world oil consumption growth and depletion of existing fields, analysts say. Brazil’s state oil firm Petrobras and UK’s BG recently made a big offshore...

(EnergyAsia, November 10, Tuesday) — Global oil production could start shrinking from as early as 2012, or when the slightest recovery in the world economy lead to higher energy consumption, said peak oil advocates. This group of analysts has been forecasting that new oil flows will soon not be sufficient to meet global increases in...

(EnergyAsia, November 10, Tuesday) — After years of debate, Singapore has finally stated its policy that it will not set a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions unless “other” countries do so. Environmentalists will be disappointed that Singapore is adopting the position of placing the responsibility to save the planet onto other countries.   “We...

(EnergyAsia, November 10, Tuesday) — Honeywell said its technology subsidiary, UOP, and state-owned China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) to collaborate on developing biofuels technologies and projects in China. Under the terms of the agreement, announced at the 20th meeting of the recent China-US Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT), the companies will collaborate to...

(EnergyAsia, November 10, Tuesday) — Chinese ingot, wafer, cell and module manufacturer, CNPV, said it has secured a three-year agreement to supply solar PV cells to Solar Energy Trading GmbH (SET), a German project development and distribution company. CNPV said it will supply SET with a total of 100MWp of PV Modules from 2010 to...