16 May 12 | The Business Times by ronnie lim
THERE is nothing fishy about the latest goings-on at Neste Oil's $1.2 billion renewable biodiesel plant in Singapore.
The fact is the Finnish oil refiner has just begun to use waste fat sourced from the fish processing industry to produce its biodiesel.
Announcing this yesterday, Neste said that the waste fish fat is the latest renewable feedstock for its 800,000 tonne per annum...
11 May 12 | The Business Times by Mindy Tan
NINE projects have been awarded funding in the first public-private collaboration initiative for green building research, in a pilot grant call to encourage research and greater adoption of green building technologies.The projects, which will support the development of technologies in two key areas - energy efficiency and building facade materials - will look at energy efficient technologies that...
10 May 12 | The Business Times by ronnie lim
DESALINATION group Hyflux - a newbie to the power business - has enlisted an independent US energy service provider to help it operate and maintain a 411-megawatt power plant which is integral to its $890 million second desalination plant project in Singapore.NAES Corporation, headquartered in Washington, announced on Tuesday that it had secured an operations and maintenance (O&M) agreement for...