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6 September 2010
Singapore, August 12 - Somewhere off the coast of Invergordon in Scotland on Thursday, the world’s largest tidal turbine will be installed, marking a turning point in the global renewable tidal energy industry.
Hong Kong, July 29 - Hongkong Electric Holdings, the utility controlled by billionaire Li Ka-shing, formally started up the city’s biggest solar-power project today as part of efforts to help cut pollution.
Insight — Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees - US investment in Clean Energy at Home Is the Best Response to China’s Protectionism, by Julian Wong
Singapore, July 23 - Singapore shone at the annual Asean Energy Awards in Vietnam yesterday, winning five awards, four of which clinched top honours in their categories. Home-grown firm Eco Special Waste Management, which won the top prize in the Renewable Energy Project off-grid category, impressed judges with its Tuas sludge incineration plant - a first in Singapore and also in South-east Asia.
Singapore, June 7 - Mid-sized enterprises, foreign and local alike, are sprouting in Singapore in the nascent but booming clean technology or “cleantech” industry. Singapore’s Economic Development Board (EDB) now estimates that such small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will contribute as much as half of economic output from the cleantech sector by 2015.
Singapore, May 30 - White-gloved hands carefully pack azure blue solar cells at a vast new S$2.6 billion ($1.85 billion) plant that Singapore persuaded Norway’s Renewable Energy Corp to build in the city state.
Beijing, May 17 - United States leaders want China’s clean energy boom to drive technology exports and are sending a sales mission to Beijing this week. But Beijing wants to create its own suppliers of wind, solar and other equipment and is limiting access to its market, setting up a new trade clash with Washington and Europe.
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