Biomass

The healthy life-cycle of biogas
January 27, 2012
Nepal is looking to scale up its flagship household biogas program, which has made forays into other developing countries in Asia and Africa. Since its program was initiated in 1992 with support from SVN (the Netherlands Development Organization), Nepal has installed over 240,000 household biogas plants. These have a thermal energy capacity of 444-MW megawatts and greenhouse gas savings of 367,409 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent per year and the Nepalese model has also attracted ADB investment.
January 22, 2012
A South Korean sustainability brain group has called on Korean investors to establish a biomass pellet plant in Sarawak. Eco Frontier has been in meetings with a Sarawak delegation led by second minister of resource planning and environment, Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hassan, who is also minister of industrial development, according to the Borneo Post.
Solar farm
January 13, 2012
Total new investment in global clean energy increased 5 percent to set a record of USD260 billion in 2011, despite the sluggish global economy and a painful squeeze on manufacturers, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance.Most notable, according to the report, is that the US reclaimed its crown from China for clean energy investment for the first time since 2008, with total investment surging by 33 percent to USD55.9 billion compared to China’s USD47.4 billion, which was only an increase of 1 percent over 2010.
December 28, 2011
Malaysia’s national innovation agency has called upon the country's oil palm businesses to get on with exploiting the industry's biomass potential. It is thought that the industry could generate MYR30 billion (USD9.45 billion) for the country but it would need industry and government co-operation.
Malaysian has plenty of solar and biomass
December 07, 2011
Malaysia's new renewable energy feed-in-tariff (FiT) regime has had mixed results since applications opened at the beginning of the month. While almost the entire allocation of FiT budget earmarked for solar photovoltaic (PV) projects through to the middle of 2014 was applied for within 24 hours, other types of renewables covered by the scheme have proven to be considerably less popular thus far. The country is following the familiar FiT model but with a quota system for different types of renewable energy (RE), designed to avoid the bubbles in RE project development as seen in the European solar sector.
November 08, 2011
In an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the China Longyuan Power Group Corp said it had agreed to buy wind energy and biomass assets from its parent, China Guodian Corp.
Energy poverty in Asia
October 12, 2011
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has issued a new report focusing on energy poverty. The agency says 675 million people in developing Asia and more than 1.3 billion worldwide do not have access to electricity while those relying on traditional biomass for cooking amount to over 1.9 billion in the region and 2.6 billion globally.
September 29, 2011
Biomass power plant provider DP CleanTech has been contracted to convert an ageing coal-fired power plant in Thailand to operate on waste wood such as eucalyptus bark.
September 26, 2011
Malaysia's Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) has told the Umas residents they have access to electricity when work on a biomass power plant is completed. 
Chip off the old block - biomass by another name
September 02, 2011
Rising global demand for cleaner energy from biomass could drive more land acquisition in poorer nations where food security and land rights are weak, an International Institute for Environment and Development briefing paper said on Tuesday.
August 19, 2011
The Philippines largest and often criticized power distributor, Manila Electric Co (Meralco), is lobbying the federal administration to rethink its plans to invest in renewable energy as the moves may pose further burden on consumers with higher electricity prices.
August 16, 2011
The Malaysian Government has pushed back implementation of its feed-in tariff (FiT) system for the renewable energy sector from 1 September to 1 December.
August 09, 2011
More money is flowing into India's renewable energy sector. The World bank's private investment arm, the International Finance Corp (IFC), has bought a USD15 million slice of private Indian biomass power firm Shalivahana Green Energy according to news reports.
REN21 renewable energy
July 19, 2011
The Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century (REN21) says in a new report that, despite the economic recession and incentive cuts in many countries, renewable energy continues to grow rapidly worldwide.
New Zealand wind power
July 14, 2011
Nearly three quarters of the electricity used in New Zealand last year was generated by renewable sources, the highest level in 12 years, acting Minister of Energy and Resources Hekia Parata has revealed.
Dr Anusorn Sangnimnuan, the president of Bangchak Petroleum Plc
July 11, 2011
Thailand needs to raise solar power production capacity over the next 10 years to 2.5-GW to secure its electricity supply and drive economic development, says Dr Anusorn Sangnimnuan, the president of Bangchak Petroleum Plc .
China the biggest market for renewable energy investment in 2010
July 09, 2011
According to the latest news released by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), China along with a number of developing countries are now the biggest investors in large-scale renewables while Germany surges ahead on rooftop solar.
Cleantech tax incentives
July 02, 2011
With China's new Foreign Investment Catalog pushing several additional green industries into the "encouraged" category and the 12th Five Year Plan declared the "greenest in history," China is abuzz with talk about the green sector.
Philippines sunshine
June 16, 2011
Philippine Senator Sergio R Osmeña III, is questioning the government's moves towards backing solar energy, and instead suggests more efforts should be put towards other forms of renewables such as biomass and hydro.
Solar energy
June 15, 2011
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released the full Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), having earlier releases a summary, which concludes that 77 percent of the world's energy supply could be met from renewable sources by mid-century if politicians helped.