(EnergyAsia, April 5 2010, Monday) — Singapore-based Flextronics has dedicated one million square feet to create a ‘clean tech supersite’ established at its facility in Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP) in the southern Malaysian state of Johor. Flextronics said the new facility strengthens its position as a global leader in the manufacturing of solar modules...

(EnergyAsia, April 5 2010, Monday) — Mission NewEnergy Limited, an Australia-based biodiesel refiner and a world-leading jatropha plantation company, said the Indian government has approved its plan to increase capital investment into its Indian feedstock business. The company said it will also be allowed to continue with its original plan for contract farming of the...

(EnergyAsia, April 5 2010, Monday) — Japanese heavy industries firm Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding said it has secured from Inbicon, the Danish pioneer of cellulosic ethanol technology, the right to build biomass refineries in Southeast Asia using Inbicon’s proprietary technology. Mitsui plans to use the technology in the palm oil industry to convert waste from...

(EnergyAsia, April 5 2010, Monday) — GC China Turbine Corp, a US-listed Chinese manufacturer of twin blade wind turbines, said it recently signed an agreement to develop three wind farm projects with the Baicheng municipal government in China’s Jilin province. The company said it expects to start construction of the projects with a combined installed...