Winds of change in clean energy
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03 September 10
The Strait Times by Victoria Vaughan
WIND may still be used to generate electricity in Singapore - just not Mother Nature's breeze. Both JTC Corporation and the Housing Board are looking into the use of vertical axis wind turbines, where the blades spin around an upright shaft. JTC has put out a tender for two such wind turbines to harvest waste air flow from lift exhausts - openings on the roof to ensure ventilation for lift ...
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Hyflux, Sembcorp have good global prospects: report
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03 September 10
The Business Times by Melissa Tan
SINGAPORE'S water firms are well placed to take advantage of increasing investment by governments in water infrastructure worldwide, according to a Credit Suisse report. Estimating that 37 per cent of the global population, or 2.8 billion people, would face 'absolute water stress or scarcity' by 2020, Credit Suisse analysts said in the Aug 31 report: 'We believe governments are slowly realising ...
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Keppel breaks ground on UK plant
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30 August 10
The Business Times by Melissa Tan
KEPPEL Corporation broke ground for its $518 million energy-from-waste (EFW) plant in the UK - one of the largest such projects there - last Thursday. The combined heat and power plant, slated for completion in 2012, is part of a waste management project by the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA). When operational, the plant will be able to treat up to 420,000 tonnes of solid ...
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Two young giants to call Jurong Island home
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26 August 10
The Business Times by Ronnie Lim
(SINGAPORE) Sembcorp is building a new S$800 million facility on Jurong Island to supply steam and other water and wastewater treatment services to Jurong Aromatic Corporation's (JAC) US$2 billion petrochemicals complex under a 20-year utilities supply deal signed by the two on Tuesday evening. This essentially confirms that two new projects will be coming up next on the petrochemicals island. ...
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JOil makes biofuels feedstock breakthrough
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25 August 10
The Business Times by Ronnie Lim
THE first-ever commercially produced Jatropha curcas plants through Singapore-developed tissue culture will be ready for markets in India and other regions like East Africa and South-east Asia by the middle of next year. Announcing the breakthrough, Singapore-based JOil, a Temasek-Tata venture, said it has contracted India's largest plant biotech company KF Bioplants (KFB) to produce and deliver ...
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Push for 'green' plastic bags
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24 August 10
The Business Times
FOR years, wheat husks from local food company Prima - of Prima Deli and Prima Taste fame - were carted away to its wheat milling site to be turned into animal feed. 'It's a typical by-product of the milling process that we sold off, but it did not add much value,' says Prima's executive director and general manager Lewis Cheng. But since July, the husks have been making a re-appearance in the ...
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The race for renewable energy
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24 August 10
The Business Times by Joyce Hooi
THE 'green energy' umbrella is a rather generous and - fittingly - shady one.It has welcomed into its fold the fields of renewable energy such as solar, wind and geothermal energy - with plenty of room to spare for energy efficiency in the form of products and designs.Last year, Singapore committed itself to cut emissions growth by 16 per cent by 2020.On a global level, money has gushed into the ...
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Go Green - and keep your firm in the black
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24 August 10
The Business Times
WHEN it comes to Green IT, the world is increasingly looking towards Asia, where economies have seen tremendous growth in the past 10 years. In emerging markets, the current IT infrastructure is straining to handle the growing needs of globalising companies. The rapid rate of growth, coupled with the density of Asia's major cities, makes the region a phenomenal case study on the importance of ...
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Renewable energy in East Asia
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24 August 10
The Business Times
WHILE East Asia continues to rely primarily on fossil fuels, many countries have begun to tap alternative sources of energy, including renewable sources. Driven simultaneously by the need to find more sustainable sources of energy and the need to mitigate pollution, renewable energy (RE) has become an attractive option. The following sections illustrate contemporary RE developments. Hydropower ...
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A boost for energy efficiency
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24 August 10
The Business Times
CLIMATE change and rising fuel prices are some of the contemporary challenges we face today. Like the rest of the world, Singapore is dependent on fossil fuels to meet our energy needs and hence support our economic growth. Nevertheless, we can still balance economic development with climate change mitigation by being more energy efficient. To this end, the multi-agency Energy Efficiency ...
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Holistic approach to public transport proposed
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20 August 10
The Business Times by Lynn Kan
(SINGAPORE) Switching to environmentally-friendly transport won't mean more pain and discomfort, if the suggestions in reports by two government-appointed focus groups are anything to go by. In fact, frequent public transport commuters will be cheered to see suggestions that include longer operating hours for buses and trains, shorter commute times with dedicated bus lanes for express buses and ...
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Tapping Singapore's 'fifth fuel' source
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19 August 10
The Strait Times by Chai Kah Hin and Catrina Yeo, For The Straits Times
CONTRARY to popular belief, Singapore does have its own source of energy. But this resource - energy efficiency - is largely untapped. Energy efficiency is widely referred to as the 'fifth fuel' after oil, gas, coal and forms of renewable energy. Given that almost all of Singapore's energy has to be imported, energy efficiency, or doing the same thing with less energy, is probably the ...
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Students come up with green winners
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18 August 10
The Strait Times
One app automatically adjusts a building's air-conditioning system according to the weather outside, while the other tells you where to find recycling bins using fanciful augmented reality technologies. - - PHOTOS: JULIAN TAY FOR THE STRAITS TIMES - - Another, a cutesy game, tests players on their knowledge of the environment as they help an animated crab find its way out of a ...
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Sembcorp to invest $414m more in UK JV project
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12 August 10
The Business Times by Ronnie Lim
SEMBCORP plans to invest another $414 million in its waste-to-energy joint venture (JV) with SITA UK at the latter's Teeside site in north-east England. The proposed project, Wilton 11, will produce about 35 megawatts of electricity by treating up to 400,000 tonnes of non-hazardous office and household waste annually. It is expected to generate enough electricity for about 55,000 households and ...
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Making waves in clean energy sector
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12 August 10
The Strait Times by Jessica Cheam
SINGAPORE'S clean energy sector can pat itself on the back today as the world's largest tidal turbine is unveiled at Invergordon, Scotland. While the turbine, which can generate consistent electricity to power 1,000 British homes, is thousands of kilometres away, it represents a key moment for the growing clean technology or 'cleantech' industry in Singapore. The AK1000 turbine was largely ...
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