Singapore

Experts believe that gas will account for almost 90% of total electricity produced by 2020, but is the country prepared to face various supply risks?

Located in Tuas, the Heraeus Asia Center will specialise in a full suite of end-to-end services driven by the Photovoltaics Business Unit.

Power Plants being built from now on need to be Carbon Capture ready. The price for electricity produced for fossil fuel power plants equipped with CCS plants will becomparable to nuclear, geothermal, on-shore wind and hydro sources by 2015, saysPhilippe Paelinck, Alstom's Director of CO2 Business Development.

The region needs proven technologies that are already adopted by major industries.

Biorenewables will greatly impact several billion dollar markets and revenues can grow to as much as EUR 450b by 2020.

A*STAR unveiled its S$38 million  Experimental Power Grid Centre in Jurong Island.

European restrictions on clean investments beyond 2012 proving challenge to Asia’s carbon market, says an expert.

Asia’s leading the global fight against the climate change at least in the clean development mechanism (CDM) market.

Find out the answer from Ambassador Burhan Gafoor, chief negotiator for climate change in Singapore.

New regulatory developments pose threats to global carbon market trading.

The AFEF will be the anchor renewable energy forum at the Singapore International Energy Week from 6 – 8 November 2012.

MWM will now become part of Caterpillar’s Electric Power Division.

Clean energy is now more than a fad and it is becoming a commitment for everyone in the region including ADB which re-affirms commitment to increase financial support to clean energy investments to $2billion a year by 2013 from $1.8 billion last year.

Except in Japan, the construction of nuclear power plants hasn’t been stopped.

Ten years ago, California’s power crisis finally ended. Shortly after, Enron would file for the largest bankruptcy up to that point in US history. With myriad consultants alternately proclaiming either that “it wasn’t our fault”, “it could happen to you” or “we know what really happened”, restructuring initiatives were scaled back or stopped in China, Indonesia, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Thailand, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

India has made impressive progress in the field of electricity generation since Independence in 1947. In terms of generation, while new capacity has been added, the gap between demand and supply has, by and large, increased.