Developing Renewable Energy and Carbon Abatement Projects in Southeast Asia

September 1, 2009
3:00 pm	to	5:30 pm

Venue: Seminar Room II, ISEAS

Speaker: Mr William I Y Byun, Managing Director, AsiaRenewables Pte Ltd, Singapore

AsiaRenewables Pte Ltd is an energy and infrastructure company focusing on the economic growth opportunities provided by renewable energy, carbon abatement, and industrial infrastructure projects and investments. AsiaRenewables acts as an end-to-end project developer and investor. It has offices in Singapore and Beijing and a project site office in Chennai, reflecting its focus on the Asian emerging markets of China, India and South East Asia.

Mr William Byun will speak on some of the practical challenges and opportunities in developing renewable energy and carbon abatement projects in Asia including:

• some of the political, social, and economic factors in renewable energy development;
• the real role of carbon credit markets in financing renewable energy projects;
• where “borderline” Annex I countries like Korea may be heading in terms of renewable/climate change; and
• some thoughts on where Southeast Asia could position itself for the UN Climate Change Conference in December 2009 in Copenhagen.

For details and registration, visit the ISEAS website.

Source: ISEAS

Possible Environmental Crises Facing Singapore and Appropriate Responses: The Case of the Poh Ern Shih Buddhist Temple

September 8, 2009
10:00 am	to	11:30 am

Venue: ISEAS Seminar Room II

Speaker: Mr Lee Boon Siong, Honorary President and Director, Poh Ern Shih Temple

The Poh Ern Shih Temple (Temple of Thanksgiving), built in 1954, is an ecologically friendly Buddhist temple located at Chwee Chian Hill, off Pasir Panjang Road, Singapore. In 2000, the Directors decided that the temple had to be redesigned to deal with the rising costs of water, electricity and an over-dependence on fossil fuel. It was noted that environmental degradation had been increasing over the decades and that adopting ecologically friendly technologies was the way to go in the age of rising global temperatures and climate change.

This seminar will focus on Poh Ern Shih Temple’s efforts to protect the environment. The temple takes advantage of Singapore’s abundant sunlight to produce: (i) Electricity by employing three different kinds of solar energy cells – Polycrystalline, Monocrystalline and Amorphous Cells (ii) Hotwater from Solar Heat Collector Cells in Solar Panels, and (iii) Night Lighting of its landscaping and common corridors with batteries charged by electricity collected from hybrid sets of wind/solar energy units.

Meanwhile, Singapore’s abundant rainfall has made it possible to (i) Irrigate the temple grounds (ii) Generate electricity via the deployment of Micro Hydrogenerators for charging the batteries of in-house motorized wheelchairs and lighting for its landscaping and common corridors as well as (iii) Conserve, collect and convert the rainwater to drinkable water by deploying Reverse Osmosis Techonology in Portable Filtration/UV Units available overseas in the event of natural disasters.

Finally, the temple is able to leverage on the abundance of a renewable resource, bamboo, (i) to reduce the culling of our valuable forests by deploying bamboo for all the temple’s new furniture wherever possible since it is readily available from neighbouring states and is a 5-year renewable resource as compared to a 100 year old or 300 year old oak or teak tree and (ii) to reduce the pollution from the steel industries, by making all its in-house new wheelchairs from bamboo.

For details and registration, visit the ISEAS website.

Source: ISEAS

4th World Renewable Energy Summit 2009

February 17, 2009

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February 18, 2009

Recent developments have cast a cloud over the renewable energy business. The capital markets have turned risk-averse, making financing for alternative energy hard to come by. Declining oil prices make it harder for cleaner transport fuels to compete with gasoline. In a slumping economy, governments will be reluctant to pass climate change legislation that will raise gas and electricity rates.

Despite the dark clouds and lack luster sentiment, renewable energy is still seen to be the way of the future as businesses and corporation realize that the world is running out of fossil fuels and it is only a matter of generations when natural resources are completely depleted. Governments and businesses need to be constantly at the forefront of the sectors’ technology and policies in order to capitalize on market opportunities and socio-infrastructure eco-development.

Due to the speed at which the renewable energy market progresses, it is vital that businesses are kept up to date with technical advancements and industry trends. UNI Strategic is proudly organizing a regional conference:

4th World Renewable Energy Summit 2009

Hotel Novotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

17th – 18th February 2009 Read more

Event: Risk Mitigation for Renewable Energy Projects

August 28, 2008

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August 29, 2008

Venue: Plaza Athenee Bangkok Hotel, 61 Wireless Road, Bangkok 10330 Thailand

This workshop discusses risk mitigation issues for renewable energy projects such as:

• Structuring Renewable Energy Projects such as Solar, Wind, Biomass, Small Hydro, Landfill Gas and Waste to Energy
• Managing International Risks, Risk Assessment and Allocation in Renewable Transactions
• Incentives: Feed-in tariffs, Renewable Portfolio Standards, Subsidies and Grants, Tax Credits, Depreciation Schedules, and others
• Carbon-Credits and Trading Markets
• Cash flow Analysis, Debt and Equity Alternatives and Incentives

For more details and registration, visit the workshop website.

Video: A Generational Challenge to Repower America by Al Gore

Al Gore proposes a bold new strategy to repower America:

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

This goal is achievable, affordable and transformative. It represents a challenge to all Americans – in every walk of life: to our political leaders, entrepreneurs, innovators, engineers, and to every citizen.

Watch the edited speech below. The full speech and text is available at wecansolveit.org.

Singapore is Not Ready for Renewable Energy

Singapore is not ready for renewable energy. This is the conclusion that we arrived at from the recent roundtable on “Is Singapore Ready for Renewable Energy?” organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

We agree with one of the speakers, Mr Stefan Mueller, Asia-Pacific Managing Director of Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore, who said that the two issues of jobs and research, and adoption of renewable energy should be looked at separately.

Singapore has been putting in much effort in attracting renewable energy companies to set up their operations in Singapore and create jobs, and encouraging research and development in renewable energy technologies. There have been several initiatives and funding to support the renewable energy industry ever since the government decided to focus on clean tech two years ago. Read more

Event: Roundtable – Is Singapore Ready for Renewable Energy?

July 16, 2008
2:00 pm	to	4:00 pm

Moderator: Dr Benjamin Sovacool, Research Fellow, Energy Governance Program, Centre on Asia & Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Speakers:

• Mr David Tan, Deputy Chief Executive, Energy Market Authority
• Mr Tan Tian Chong, Director, Technology Development Division, Building and Construction Authority
• Mr Edwin Khew, Chairman, Sustainable Energy Association of Singapore
• Mr Stefan Mueller, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore
• Mr Christophe Inglin, Managing Director, Phoenix Solar

Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259772

This roundtable forum discusses whether Singapore is ready for renewable energy amid complex energy challenges, and the role Singapore can play in promoting renewable energy and the required policies. More details and registration at the LKYSPP website.

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