Cleaner Greener China

I must admit, that when I read this I did a double take as my previous experiences with Foton include a lot of time inhaling noxious fumes from their heavy trucks going down the highway.
However, if true, the recent announcement China’s Foton says clean energy car factory opened in Beijing comes a nice surprise, and [...]

China BAK Funded by National 863 Program for its Electric Vehicles Battery Project

One of the sad truths about cleantech in China is that at times, even when the money is spent, it is a case of two steps forward – one step back.
My initial insights into this phenomenon was through some conversations on coal scrubbers, and the calls that China needed to invest in them. Speaking [...]

Without a doubt, the banning of free plastic bags in China was one of the largest symbolic steps we witnessed during 2008.It gained praise and media exposure from around the world, which reinforced the point that it was a good step, and it reached into China’s consumer to make changes as well.
Of course, the impact [...]

With the Christmas and New Year holidays now upon us, I have decided now is a good time to take a bit of a break and work on the long overdue site design changes.
Wish you , your family, friends, and pets a good holiday season.
R

Build the best product or service, and your day will come.
Himin Solar Energy Group, China’s top maker of solar water heaters, has secured an investment of nearly 100 million U.S. dollars from Goldman Sachs and CDH Investment,
The overriding take away from this article is that even with the current financial difficulties going on, and perhaps [...]

Yesterday, BYD became the first company to release a pure plugin electric car to the mass market.  Hailed by Chinese press, and mocked by others, the announcement confirmed a trend we have been predicting for a long time.
Chinese firms were committing to battery technologies to not simply created longer laptop battery lives, but to own [...]

Gamesa has just won a very large contract with Longyuan Electric Power Group Corp to sell 347 wind turbines.
Supplying 295 MW of power, this will be one of the largest projects installed to date, and will go a long way to moving China closer to improving its energy intensity numbers.
Something this Grist article questions their [...]

An announcement in today’s paper that 36 mln jobs to be created in forestation industry is a bit disconcerting to me:
Some 36 million jobs will be created in the areas of forestation, forest tourism, wildlife breeding, and flower and medicinal herb plantations, Jia Zhibang, head of the State Forestry Administration, said yesterday.
At the core of [...]

While attending the Shanghai based US China Cleantech Conference last month, one of the panelists I was most impressed by was Gary Reishel of Qiming Ventures.  Well known throughout the SF investment community via his work with Softbank, and now know for his work in China – particularly in cleantech – his view on China [...]