Cleaner Greener China

An interesting and informative clip on the use of solar energy at this year’s Shanghai EXPO.

Anyone know if they will continue to use the panels on the Chinese pavilions afterward?

While the traditional focus of discussions surrounding cleantech uptake have been largely market driven. That, for renewable energies to compete with fossil fuels, the price per KwH had to be below the going rate for fossil, regardless of what the negative economic, environmental, or political externalities were.   It was what seemed to me an unreasonable [...]

Regardless of whether you believe COP15 still has hope, or is a predetermined failure, the fact is that in about 3 weeks a large number of scientists, environmentalists, policy makers, and cleantech funds are going to be in Copenhagen… and the world will be watching.
Even prior to the recent announcements from Singapore though, many had [...]

With last week’s congressional fireworks display over the fact that a Chinese firm was going to be receiving TARP money to install the largest wind farm in Texas, and be reaping the majority of the jobs in the deal, it should come as no surprise that Chinese firms are now announcing investments in the US.
Chinese [...]

Tianjin’s Economic Development Zone (TEDA) has been one of the premier investment zones in China, and keeping in mind their proximity to the new Singapore invested ecocity, it should come as no surprise that this would lead to some very large cleantech projects for TEDA.
Here are three that they recently reported out as part of [...]

One of the subjects that I have grown more interested in, and worried by, is the fact that while developing sustainable economic and environmental models are in everyone’s best interests there are those who wish to look at things in a different light.
That, rather that developing technologies with a priority of solving environmental failures on [...]

The Beijing Review article Going Solar is an excellent piece showing the industry as one is poorly structured, and one that will see changes.

A friend from the Qinghai organization Friendship Charity Association has sent me a proposal to bring solar electricty to 400 people in Qinghai.
PROJECT PURPOSE/GOAL
This Solar electricity generating panel project would provide a reliable source of electricity for Tsanak Tibetan villagers and solve problems as follows:

Local villagers, especially the local women and girls, have to [...]

With the World Expo less than a year away, Shanghai has now begun the process of topping off its green goals by installing 34 wind turbines 92 meters high near the Shanghai East China Sea Bridge.
The first of a number of planned wind farms, the article states that a total of capactiy 293,000 kw will [...]

Canadian Solar Wins a Bid to a Rural Electrification Project in China