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margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: #e9e9e3; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Battery</strong></td><td style="background-color: #e9e9e3; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">63 Wh, 120W barrel-plug charger with quick-charging</td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: #e9e9e3; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Size/weight</strong></td><td style="background-color: #e9e9e3; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">360 mm or 14.19” (w) x 235 mm or 9.26” (d) x 19.9 mm or 0.78” (h) / 1,68kg (+/-)</td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><td style="background-color: #e9e9e3; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Extras</strong></td><td style="background-color: #e9e9e3; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 2px 0px 0px 2px; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">HD webcam with shutter, stereo bottom speakers, finger-lock sensor in the power button<span> </span></td></tr><tr style="border: 0px; 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MS Office 365 Home and Student version.</td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: times;">My experience with previous Asus Laptop X550LC that was bought early 2014 till now still working fine. Hence, I believe ASUS Laptop is very durable and long lasting.<br /><br /><strong style="border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">VivoBook Pro 15 come with OLED screen that can produce vivid stunning HD picture and video. </strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBZ_NvBE1dTl3ZfvFehaHh6F57W-kmx_JG2dTqvizBRl83POwqZkbGE5qjLx7xtq01gioJfEOkvgYGDBdUsn3xKpbHnX1ouanJ2Fj3oggGkIh29CwtoLBmXpjE-sWytn_eRGTvvKzoSKQn6V_vko3okPaEbOepg9n6WRB1YhnYDibvP3BndFiIfvDq=s1280" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBZ_NvBE1dTl3ZfvFehaHh6F57W-kmx_JG2dTqvizBRl83POwqZkbGE5qjLx7xtq01gioJfEOkvgYGDBdUsn3xKpbHnX1ouanJ2Fj3oggGkIh29CwtoLBmXpjE-sWytn_eRGTvvKzoSKQn6V_vko3okPaEbOepg9n6WRB1YhnYDibvP3BndFiIfvDq=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwIn5R5iwegNyeNrzoL8XD12IDBGU8CWwaB9Iep7g1B0MMJYIX1ZbTcwihmMV1jCrRmMnbp0G4El38dFjX_sA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><p><i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">"ASUS Laptop - Durable, Stunning Experience and Long Lasting"</span></i></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-78576912457006222452014-05-16T08:49:00.004+08:002014-05-16T08:49:52.884+08:00Malaysia Green Ways....<h1 class="page-title ">
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Green energy ‘mega fund’ and Malaysian smart grid announced</h1>
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$100 million SE Asian green energy fund and a Malaysian smart grid will drive regional innovation.</div>
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Malaysia and Japan-based <a href="http://www.aedp.com/index.html" target="_blank">Asian Energy Investments Pte Ltd.</a> have created a $100 million investment ‘mega fund’, which will seed promising green energy innovations in Southeast Asia. It is hoped this will accelerate the development of renewable energy products and businesses in the country and wider region.<br />
The fund will focus on investments in small to mid-size technologies and enterprises. A new Malaysia-based fund management company – Putra Eco Ventures Inc. – will channel the investments and provide business consultancy services to green technology companies.<br />
The announcement was made at a San Francisco meeting of the Malaysian Prime Minister's <a href="http://www.might.org.my/gsiac/solutionpages/default.aspx" target="_blank">Global Science and Innovation Advisory Council</a>, created in 2011 through a partnership between <a href="http://www.might.org.my/en/SolutionPages/Default.aspx" target="_blank">Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology</a> and the <a href="http://www.nyas.org/" target="_blank">New York Academy of Sciences</a>.<br />
“We hope to […] transform Malaysia into a knowledge-based, innovation-driven economy that is environmentally friendly while aiming to join the ranks of developed nations", said Najib Razak, Prime Minister of Malaysia.<br />
Dr. Zakri Abdul Hamid, Science Advisor to the Prime Minister, believes market-driven decarbonisation will support the technologies and companies developed through the fund. “Demand for these products and businesses will be again driven by consumer convenience, cost advantage and environmental necessity, and logic dictates that they will eventually trump non-renewable fossil fuels in global markets short years or decades from now."<br />
The fund management company will also be charged with helping revive Malaysian biodiesel plants left idle after sharp increases in the price of crude palm oil, on which the plants used to depend for feedstock. The idea is to use cheaper alternatives, such as municipal waste and palm oil waste. The Malaysian Government plans for 5.5% of the country’s total generating capacity to come from renewable sources by 2015.<br />
Under a second, parallel agreement announced between <a href="http://www.ge.com/" target="_blank">General Electric</a>, <a href="http://www.greentechmalaysia.my/Pages/pages.aspx?View=AboutUs" target="_blank">Green Tech</a> and <a href="http://www.tnb.com.my/" target="_blank">Tenaga Nasional Berhad</a>, Malaysia's main energy provider, the country will also accelerate the development of its smart grid programme, establishing a national policy and regulatory framework for it.<br />
According to Jerry Hultin, former President of the <a href="http://www.poly.edu/" target="_blank">Polytechnic Institute of NYU</a>, green energy is an important investment for emerging economies, simultaneously promoting environmental interests, energy security, entrepreneurship, human capital and prosperity.<strong> – Duncan Jefferies</strong><br />
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The Future Of The Lithium-Ion Opportunity In Solar Energy Storage</h1>
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<a href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=9891#1">Introduction</a><br />
<a href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=9891#2">Desperately Seeking Lithium</a><br />
<a href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=9891#3">Bringing Lithium To The Solar Market</a><br />
<a href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=9891#4">Price, Projections and Problems</a><br />
<a href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=9891#5">Risks Of The Lithium Ion Space</a><br />
<a href="http://www.azom.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=9891#6">About NanoMarkets</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="1"></a>Introduction</h2>
Solar energy storage using lead-acid batteries is as old as the solar energy industry itself. <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Off-grid photovoltaics (PV)</a> has invariably used such batteries, in some cases just car batteries to store energy produced during sunny periods.<br />
Till now the market for grid-connected <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a>
storage has been negligible but there is a drastic change. The solar
storage business is thus doubly blessed. Not only has its opportunity
space increased because of the growing number of PV installations as a
whole, but non-utility, grid-connected <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a> has become a target has become a target market for storage for the first time.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="2"></a>Desperately Seeking Lithium</h2>
According to <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a>, for years to come, lead-acid batteries are going to eat up much of the available market for <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a>
storage. Lead-acid batteries are mature, reliable, easy to find and not
really that expensive. However, with growing demand for <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a> storage, it is understandable that battery firms have been seeking technologies that can do the job better than lead-acid.<br />
Lead-carbon batteries are a natural alternative, but remain very
expensive. Many of the other alternatives such as Sodium Sulfur
batteries are aimed at utility-scale generation and are not what an
average <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a> user would consider as an alternative to lead acid. That leaves just one alternative, <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium-ion</a>
batteries. Unlike most of the other technologies that compete with
lead-acid these batteries are already in widespread use in consumer
markets; cell phones, power tools and perhaps soon cars.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="3"></a>Bringing Lithium To The Solar Market</h2>
Lithium batteries have begun to creep into the <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a> market. Current trends are as follows:<br />
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Panasonic is a brand name for consumer and small business technology products, which in 2012 targeted German residential <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a> installations with a 1.35-kWh lithium-ion battery unit (up to 5.4 kWh total per system) with a lifetime of 5,000 cycles.<br />
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In Germany, in early 2013, the utility RWE started to offer its
residential customers a modular energy storage system called RWE
HomePower. This is a lithium-ion system developed in conjunction with
VARTA.<br />
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Meanwhile, in the US, Solar City now sells a home energy storage
system based on lithium ion storage technology developed by the electric
vehicle company, Tesla.<br />
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<a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a> expects other entrants such as Hitachi into the market. It is working on lithium-ion batteries with Johnson Controls.<br />
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Lithium battery watchers must also keep an eye on China which is
ramping up production of high-technology products based on domestically
derived intellectual property.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="4"></a>Price, Projections and Problems</h2>
Presently the cost of <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium-ion</a>
batteries is about four times the cost of lead-acid batteries. This
doesn’t matter all that much when one is considering batteries for small
devices; cell phones and power tools for example. In such cases, the
high energy density along with the low weight of <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium ion</a> batteries is more important in technology choice by OEMs than is high cost.<br />
The main reason why it is expected that lead acid batteries will tower
over lithium batteries in the solar sector is price. Even with the
inevitable price declines in <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium-ion</a>, and the obvious virtues of lithium ion in terms of energy density and weight, <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a> expects lithium ion to be too expensive for <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a> users even a decade from now.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="5"></a>Risks Of The Lithium Ion Space</h2>
There are an will be exceptions to this rule. Large <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium-ion</a>
batteries will continue to be deployed. For example, SAFT, the French
battery maker, has built what is considered to be Europe’s largest
storage system for a <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PV</a>
plant. It uses a modular lithium-ion battery system and is being
provided to Spanish renewable-energy provider Acciona for a solar park
in Tudela, Spain. The capacity of the system is 1 MW. Meanwhile,
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has been exploring the potential for <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium-ion</a> batteries for solar farm peak shaving applications.<br />
<a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a> is concerned that the large scale lithium battery business seems to be a peculiarly risky one. <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a> notes that 2012 took its toll Ener1 (HEV), Valence and A123 have all filed for Chapter 11 protection.<br />
Large-scale lithium battery R&D is heavily subsidized by
governments, which puts it at the whim of politicians and changing
political circumstances. For example, in the U.S., an important source
of funding for lithium batteries was the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 has resulted in significant capacity.<br />
And as government subsidies dry up, so might R&D for <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium ion</a> batteries. While the first casualty would be larger grid-scale batteries, such an event could well impact the future of <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lithium-ion</a> batteries more broadly.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="6"></a>About NanoMarkets</h2>
<a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a>
is a leading provider of market research and industry analysis of
opportunities within advanced materials and emerging energy and
electronics markets. Since the firm’s founding, <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a>
has published over one hundred comprehensive research reports on
emerging technology markets. Topics covered have included OLED displays,
lighting and materials, thin-film electronics, conductive inks,
transparent conductors, renewable energy, printed electronics and other
promising technologies. Our client roster is a who’s who of companies in
specialty chemicals, materials, electronics applications and
manufacturing.<br />
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For more information on this source, please visit <a href="http://www.azom.com/ads/abmc.aspx?b=13278" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">NanoMarkets</a>.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-36932005163385638062014-03-04T10:19:00.000+08:002014-03-04T10:19:00.684+08:00From: Business Insider Malaysia<br />
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Tesla Just Took Its First Step Towards Obliterating The Power Companies</h1>
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<img alt="supernova" border="0" class="float_right" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4fb69369ecad04021600000f-620-466/supernova-%281%29.jpg" />Elon Musk just <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-reveals-gigafactory-plan-2014-2">announced</a> details of Tesla’s plan to start pumping out lithium ion batteries like M&Ms at its planned “Gigafactory.”<br />
Obviously, it’s big news for electric vehicles as this should bring down the cost of a very expensive component.<br />
But it has equal and possibly greater significance for renewable energy.<br />
We’ve <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/konterra-solar-2013-11">explained</a>
that power storage is the key to unlocking widespread renewable energy.
For renewables to work on scale, they needs to be able to provide a
continuous current flow, something difficult to achieve when the wind
isn’t blowing or sun isn’t shining.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But the cost of doing so is currently exorbitant. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tom Leyden, the head of Solar</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Grid Storage, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/konterra-solar-2013-11">whose revolutionary container storage system on the side of a Maryland freeway we profiled a few months ago</a>, says batteries currently represent 50% of the cost of one of his systems.</span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Which is why he’s hailing the decision.</span><br />
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“If those prices comes down, our market expands, we can
offer a lower priced product and put more storage in our system,” he
told us. “So this is very important.”</div>
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Solar execs are comparing the current environment to where
photovoltaic costs were in the last decade, just before their prices
plummeted.</div>
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“At that point in time solar modules were very expensive,
and the industry was pushing a couple of different alternatives: thin
films were going to be photovoltaic of the future,” said Tony Clifford,
CEO of Standard Solar. His company also worked on the Konterra project.</div>
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But thanks to worldwide government incentives, he said,
the price of traditional silicon ended up falling through the floor,
paving the way for the current renewables boom.</div>
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In this case, of course, the marketplace is creating the
demand for lithium ion batteries. But renewables will again be the
beneficiaries. </div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“You’re going to be able
to drive costs out right across supply chain and see some significant
cost reductions in storage technology.”</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A report from the <a href="http://www.rmi.org/PDF_economics_of_grid_defection_full_report">Rocky Mountain Institute</a> released prior to Tesla’s announcement (<a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/where-and-when-customers-may-start-leaving-the-grid">spotted by GTM Media</a>) was even more extreme about the possibilities for cheaper storage. </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The
coming grid parity of solar-plus-battery systems in the foreseeable
future, among other factors, signals the eventual demise of traditional
utility business models,” the authors wrote.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">RMI continues: </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“Whereas other technologies, including solar PV and other distributed resources without storage, net metering, and </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">energy
efficiency still require some degree of grid dependence,
solar-plus-batteries enable customers to cut the cord to their utility
entirely.” </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Tesla’s announcement
represents a major step towards a larger, cheaper energy storage market
that could have huge implications for making renewables more widespread.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-75669709598430937562013-08-28T14:11:00.002+08:002013-08-28T14:30:48.566+08:00Energy issues, civilians paid? Government Subsidy???<strong><span style="color: red;">I taught government should play vital role in sustainable energy development. But now the "elected" government busy nation money for "OTHER" development that not really important. Policy that require more effort and properly manage such S&T and Energy...</span></strong><br />
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PUTRAJAYA: The Sustainable Energy Development Authority (Seda) is seeking an
additional 1% levy to the renewable energy (RE) fund, on top of the current 1%
imposed in electricity bills, according to CEO Datin Badriyah Abdul Malek.<br />
“We’re looking at a maximun 1% levy that could increase the RE fund size to
spur more development in the RE sector. The RE fund is the lifeline of
Feed-in-Tariff (FiT),” she said at Seda’s Raya open house in Putrajaya
yesterday.<br />
Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, individuals or non-individuals can sell
electricity generated from RE resources to power utility firms at a fixed
premium price for a specified time. The four RE resources that are eligible for
FiT are biogas, biomass, small hydropower and solar photovoltaic (PV).<br />
The current 1% levy to cover costs associated with the FiT scheme translates
to about RM300mil a year. The 1% levy, which took effect in December 2011, is
imposed on all users, except for domestic customers who consume less than 300
kilowatt-hours (kwh) or equivalent to RM77 a month.<br />
When the additional 1% levy is imposed, the same group of consumers will have
to pay 2% levy for FiT.<br />
Badriyah disclosed Seda had spoken to the Energy, Green Technology and Water
Ministry on the potential review and that it was work in progress.<br />
She said although Seda had received an in-principle approval for the 2% levy,
the extra 1% was in the Government’s hands.<br />
According to Badriyah, the initial RM300mil fund size has been committed to
feed in approval holders (FiAHs) for the next 21 years.<br />
“The money has been locked in. This is to ensure that there is money to pay
the FiAHs,” she said, adding that Seda was also looking at various ways to top
up the RE fund.<br />
The Act also requires the management and utilisation of the RE fund to be
reported and tabled in Parliament annually for the public to scrutinise the
information.<br />
Badriyah said the past 20 months had been a “volatile” period for Seda, which
had managed a substantial growth in RE.<br />
So far the agency has disbursed some RM44mil to the FiAHs. As of July 31,
Seda had approved RE capacity of 509.75 MW, of which 112.44 MW are connected to
the grid.<br />
Meanwhile, Seda will be releasing 1,500kW of solar PV quota to individuals in
three batches. The first 500kW quota for individuals under the Solar Home
Rooftop Programme will be released today, followed by another 500kW on Sept 4
and Sept 11 at noon.<br />
“There will be no more releases of any solar PV quota for individuals for
2013 after Sept 11 because it is not realistic for these individual FiAHs to be
able to achieve commercial operation of their PV system by the year-end,”
Badriyah said.<br />
She said that any renewable energy projects that were supposed to achieve
commercial operation by this year but failed to do so would incur further
degression to their FiT rate as stipulated in their FiA certificate.<br />
It is thus important for all FiAHs to note that for solar PV for individuals
the degression rate is 8% while for non-individuals it is 20%.<br />
Effective today, solar PV quota for the individual will be applicable only
for residential premises under individual names only to prevent any potential
abuse of solar PV quota for individuals.<br />
Badriyah said Seda would be strict in approving applications and reminded
interested FiA applicants to comply with all the necessary requirements.<br />
Meanwhile, Business Ethics Institute of Malaysia chairman S. Supramaniam
opined that Seda should explain to the public what it had done with the 1% levy
before seeking an extra 1%.<br />
“We don’t even know what they (Seda) have done with the 1%. Show us how well
you have done with the 1%,” he told <i>StarBiz.</i><br />
Furthermore, he said there was limited consultation with the public on the
levy.<br />
He also said information on the initial 1% levy was not properly disseminated
to the public.<br />
Supramaniam noted that the clean energy domain should rest with the
Government and that it should pay for it.</div>
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5<sup>th</sup> August 2013, Kuala Lumpur – The
launching ceremony of the Senheng Residential Solar PV System themed “Green
Energy, Green Money” took place today at senQ One Utama Shopping Centre. Amongst
the honorable guests in attendance to officially launch the residential solar PV
system was Yang Berbahagia Datuk Loo Took Gee, Secretary General of the Ministry
of Energy, Green Technology, and Water (KeTTHA), Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dr.
Fong Chan Onn, Chairman of SEDA (Sustainable Energy Development Authority
Malaysia), Jaya Singam Rajoo, Setiausaha Bahagian, Bahagian Tenaga Lestari of
the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology, and Water (KeTTHA), Puan Badriyah Hj.
Abd Malek, CEO of SEDA. and Ir. Dr Ali Askar Sher Mohamad, COO of SEDA.</div>
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The theme “Green Energy, Green Money” is derived
from the idea that the residential solar PV system is one of the most effective
ways in producing green energy, while at the same time able to provide a source
of income. Consumers will now be able to play a very important role in
decreasing the harmful impact of traditional energy sources (fuel, coal, etc) to
the environment, whilst generating a side income.</div>
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Senheng will offer 3 residential solar PV system
packages – 4kWp will cost around RM40,800, 8kWp will cost around RM81,600 and
12kWp will cost around RM122,400 to set-up. All packages come with first 3 years
maintenance service for free.</div>
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It is generally known that the set-up costs of a
residential solar PV system is high, but now Senheng is pioneering a market
breakthrough by providing 85% financing solution with special low interest rate
for customers. To make the plan more attractive, customers are entitled to a 15%
cash rebate after full installation.</div>
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Senheng will be the first and only retailer to
introduce the residential solar PV system to the mass market which will only be
initially available at Klang Valley Senheng outlets and senQ Digital Stations on
the 5<sup>th</sup> of August 2013 onwards. Availability to other states will
expand over time.</div>
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Senheng will provide the entire system
implementation solutions: providing design and consultation, installation and
project management, solar financing and solar monitoring/maintenance. Senheng
assures excellent customer support in effort to put us in the lead from all the
other service providers in the country. By providing the entire solution,
customers can be assured that the project implementation will run smoothly and
of highest professional and engineering quality.</div>
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<b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">3
Value Propositions</span></b>:</div>
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Go Green – Keep the earth green for second
generation, you can help to do it too.</div>
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Your 2nd Income – Sign up and enjoy 15% cash
rebate and earn FiT green energy income for the next 21 years</div>
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85% Financing – Proper financing facilities with
special low interest rate.</div>
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*****</div>
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<b>About Senheng Electric (KL) Sdn Bhd</b></div>
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Senheng Electric (KL) Sdn Bhd was founded in 1989
from a tiny half shop lot, with stocks worth less than RM30,000. Senheng
achieved RM1,066 million sales revenue in 2012, and with 133 outlets straddling
the length and breadth of the country.</div>
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<b></b><b>The 2 Channels</b></div>
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SENHENG is operating with 2 channels – SENHENG
and senQ Digital Station – with each serving different groups of customers. The
SENHENG channel positions itself as a neighbourhoods’ electrical and electronic
retail chain store establishing at housing area’s shop lots and carries
middle-range priced products. The senQ Digital Station positions itself as a
premium electrical and electronic retail chain store establishing in big
shopping malls and carries premium products.</div>
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<b>The Employee Franchise Scheme</b></div>
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In 1995, Senheng launched its employee franchise
scheme with the objective to offer its employees an opportunity to set-up their
own business and also the company would like its employees to growth together.
Being a franchisee has become an impetus and goal for employee who sees the
benefits of setting up their own business. As of December 2012, the company has
a total of 60 franchise outlets contributing approximately 35% of the company’s
total sales.</div>
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<strong>PlusOne Membership Card</strong></div>
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In 2002, Senheng launched its “PlusOne Membership
Card”, a customer loyalty program which helps to build a long-term relation with
customers. As of May 2013, Senheng has over 1.6 million PlusOne member database.
Being a PlusOne member, he/she can enjoy bundles of benefits, just to name a few
such as extra 1 year warranty*, special member’s price, and reward points
collection.</div>
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From left: Puan Badriyah Hj. Abd Malek, CEO of SEDA.,
Yang Berbahagia Datuk Loo Took Gee, Secretary General of the Ministry of Energy,
Green Technology, and Water (KeTTHA), Mr. Lim Kim Heng, Managing Director of
Senheng Electric (KL) Sdn. Bhd., Yang Berbahagia Tan Sri Dr. Fong Chan Onn,
Chairman of SEDA (Sustainable Energy Development Authority
Malaysia).</div>
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How many do benefit this? What is gooooing on? GLCs doing green by planting treeeesssss... Of course what matter GLCssss is money... high investment low return in short to medium terms should be in dustbin.. So to look <b><span style="color: #274e13;">GREEEEENNN</span></b> GLCs plant treessss, cheap way of investing to look <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>GREEENNNN</b></span>...<br />
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<br /> KUALA LUMPUR: A total of RM2.7bil is still available for
green technology projects under the Green Technology Financing Scheme
(GTFS), according to <span class="knx-annotation" content="Malaysia Green Technology Corp"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Malaysia%20Green%20Technology%20Corp" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Malaysia Green Technology Corp</a></span> acting <span class="knx-annotation" content="Ahmad Zairin Ismail"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Ahmad%20Zairin%20Ismail" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">CEO Ahmad Zairin Ismail</a></span>.<br />
“Under
phase one, a total of RM1.5bil has been allocated for GTFS and there is
a balance of RM700mil. In the Budget 2013 announcement last week, an
additional RM2bil had been made available for GTFS,” he said on the
sidelines of the <i>Green Technology Financing Bankers' Conference</i>.<br />
So
far, RM805mil worth of projects benefiting some 65 companies have been
approved by over 20 participating banks in the country, while over
RM250mil worth of loans have been disbursed.<br />
GTFS is a soft loan
financing scheme established by the Government. Under the funding
scheme, between RM10mil and RM50mil is allocated for a project,
depending on the criteria. The Government will bear 2% of the total
interest rate and also guarantee 60% of the financing amount. The scheme
aims to improve the utilisation of green technology in the energy,
water and waste management, building and transportation sectors.<br />
<span class="knx-annotation" content="Bank Negara"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Bank%20Negara" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Bank Negara</a></span> deputy <span class="knx-annotation" content="Datuk Muhammad Ibrahim"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Datuk%20Muhammad%20Ibrahim" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">governor Datuk Muhammad Ibrahim</a></span> said in order to create a more diverse and robust financing ecosystem for green ventures, the <i>sukuk </i>market and venture capital industry can play a more active role in supporting this sector.<br />
“To
promote long-term financing, the sukuk market presents an additional
avenue to meet market demand. Sukuk which uses a principles-based
approach on having real productive underlying assets is an ideal
financing solution for green technology projects, which have large
capital outlays and long gestation periods.<br />
“Another is the
promotion of a vibrant venture capital industry in Malaysia to
complement the banking system, as it has the potential to facilitate the
development of small and innovative businesses and the
commercialisation of intellectual property,” Muhammad said in his speech
earlier at the conference.<br />
He said green businesses needed
support as the industry might be technically strong but lacked the
capabilities to develop comprehensive business plans and cash flow
projections. .<br />
Muhammad urged financial institutions to
constantly develop expertise in support of green technology sector.
“Green financing teams should have in-depth knowledge and capacity
across the entire financing process flow, including development,
promotions, sourcing of viable projects and holistic risk management.”<br />
He
noted that the ability to leverage on the opportunities in green
technology financing would accelerate the growth of the green technology
sector in Malaysia.<br />
The two-day conference was jointly organised
by Bank Negara and the Institute of Bankers Malaysia and supported by
the Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry, the <span class="knx-annotation" content="Malaysian Green Technology Corp"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Malaysian%20Green%20Technology%20Corp" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Malaysian Green Technology Corp</a></span> and the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia.<br />
Meanwhile, the ministry <span class="knx-annotation" content="Datuk Loo Took Gee"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Datuk%20Loo%20Took%20Gee" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">secretary-general Datuk Loo Took Gee</a></span> said although the take-up rate was low in the initial stage, the achievement of the GTFS had been commendable.<br />
“As
of end-September, a total of 209 applications had been issued with the
green certificates, out of which 67 projects received loan offers from
financial institutions amounting to RM815mil. The expected carbon
dioxide reduction from these projects is estimated to be 1.2 million
tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalents a year and an estimated 440 new
green collar employment is expected to be created,” she said.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-53164380304020741992012-09-12T20:39:00.000+08:002012-09-12T20:39:24.517+08:00Do we push harder for RENEWABLE ENERGY? or We pressed renewable harder to limit its growth..??<h3 id="story_date">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Thestar: Monday September 10, 2012</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Difficult oil or new efficient energy pursuit poser</span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Corporate Portrait by Daniel Khoo</span></h2>
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<span class="knx-annotation" content="PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas)"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=PETROLIAM%20Nasional%20Bhd%20%28Petronas%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">PETROLIAM Nasional Bhd (Petronas)</a></span>,
which recorded a weaker financial performance in its second quarter for
the financial year 2012, is aiming to substantially beef up its capital
expenditure (capex) moving forward.<br />
Its <span class="knx-annotation" content="Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Tan%20Sri%20Shamsul%20Azhar%20Abbas" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">CEO Tan Sri Shamsul Azhar Abbas</a></span> and executive vice-president of finance <span class="knx-annotation" content="Datuk George Ratilal"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Datuk%20George%20Ratilal" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Datuk George Ratilal</a></span>
had repeatedly highlighted in Friday's press conference that this will
be the immediate focus for Petronas at least in the coming five years.<br />
Shamsul
who appeared sombre in the press conference said Petronas' capex
requirements were projected to cost it RM32bil over the next five years.
These would be spent on renewing its assets to cope in the new era of
“difficult oil” exploration for oil and gas companies (O&G), he
said.<br />
“The era of easy oil is over. We are moving into an era of
“difficult oil”. To develop and produce these difficult oil involves new
equipments which are costly. Entitlement in terms of production of
(O&G) is going to get less and less. This will have a significant
impact on Petronas' profitability,” Shamsul said<br />
“Old facilities
have got to be replaced these are basically critical types of facilities
and equipments. It will grow (lengthen) the life of these facilities
but not bring in any profits at all. That's what it is. Towards the end
of this year and the next, a lot of our upstream facilities' maintenance
schedule have been deferred. This is because we are facing pressure to
produce gas, so we have no choice but to defer some of these maintenance
work because we were forced to produce gas for the country's
requirements,” he said.<br />
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<img alt="" height="205" src="http://biz.thestar.com.my/archives/2012/9/10/business/p3-petronasfinindic.JPG" width="400" /> </div>
He notes that due to this, Petronas will need to embark on “maintenance and shutdown programmes” for its asset facilities.<br />
This
sentiment is also shared by George who had articulated that Petronas
will need to see substantial capex spending moving forward.<br />
“Very
soon you will see Petronas hitting the half a trillion ringgit mark in
total assets. But the larger the base, the higher risk there is,
especially when profits are down,” he added.<br />
“We have embarked on
some major capex programmes the pipeline of renewals will have an
impact and they are not going to bring any additional profit. This is
cost, but we need this, otherwise we will not have any revenue in
future,” he said.<br />
Petronas may need to rethink whether it is
economically feasible to continue on the arduous task of exploring
difficult oil or whether it should plough a portion of its resources
into research and development and to eventually become a producer of new
and more efficient energy sources instead.<br />
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<img alt="" height="304" src="http://biz.thestar.com.my/archives/2012/9/10/business/p3-petronasprofcht.JPG" width="400" /> </div>
This
is more so as the national oil company is reliant on the fluctuations
of oil prices and other factors such as currency movements which are out
of its control.<br />
As Shamsul aptly says in his presentation that
should oil prices go below US$80 per barrel “it may be difficult for
Petronas to continue growing, funding our capex plans and giving the
government dividends.”<br />
As the national oil company moves into an
era of difficult oil, industry trends of late indicate that traditional
O&G giants are slowly evolving to become more comprehensive energy
companies instead. This is apparent in commercial oil giants such as
Shell, ExxonMobil and BP which have over time developed their
alternative energy company entities.<br />
On the backdrop of the
evolving energy landscape, ExxonMobil had noted in its corporate profile
that energy supplies can change dramatically over time considering that
100 years ago, most of the world's energy came from wood and coal.<br />
“Over
the next 30 years, advances in technology will continue to remake the
world's energy landscape. Fuels will continue to grow less
carbon-intensive and more diverse,” ExxonMobil says.<br />
Moving
forward, it is forthcoming not only for commercially driven O&G
entities to be in the learning curve of alternative energy production
but also for state-owned giants such as Petronas to eventually step into
this elaborate learning curve as well, however steep it may be.<br />
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-20823356468627897072012-07-26T07:38:00.002+08:002012-07-26T07:38:51.248+08:00Former OPEC Member Indonesia Diversifies its Energy Matrix<span style="background-color: white; color: red;">I believe in Malaysia we think differently. We happy with high rise building and ad-hoc construction project rather than energy since, energy is for "RAKYAT". </span><br />
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http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Former-OPEC-Member-Indonesia-Diversifies-its-Energy-Matrix.html<br />
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Indonesia, which had begun producing oil in the early 20th
century, had such substantial production that it was a major impetus for
Japan invading the Dutch East Indies, as Indonesia was then known, in
December 1941.<br /><br />Over the last several decades the country has
seen its production relentlessly slide, so much so that it left OPEC in
2008, seemingly confirming Marion King Hubbert’s “peak oil” theory.<br /><br />But,
rather than looking back, Jakarta is looking forward on a number of
post-oil energy fronts. The archipelago is the biggest country in
Southeast Asia and already a huge exporter of oil and liquefied
petroleum gas (LPG) to Japan on long-term contracts, along with coal to
China and India.<br /><br />First, India’s leading private power producer
Tata Power intends to invest heavily in a joint venture to develop a
240-megawatt geothermal project in Indonesia, along with its consortium
partners, Australia's Origin Energy Ltd and PT Supraco Indonesia.<br /><br />Despite
the hazards of navigating Indonesian bureaucratic red tape geothermal
energy is hardly a risky venture, as Indonesia has the world's highest
number of volcanic hot spots.<br /><br />Tata Power Managing Director Anil
Sardana told reporters, "For the geothermal (project), the total cost is
estimated to be about $850 million, out of which 30 percent is equity.
So, it will about $240 million and out of that 50 percent will be from
our side, the remaining 50 percent from Origin... So, it will be about
$125 million (from Tata Power)."<br /><br />And the Europeans are eyeing the world’s largest Muslim nation as well, beyond its traditional fossil fuels base.<br /><br />According
to Indonesian Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan, Germany is currently one of
Indonesia’s biggest European export destinations. Indonesia’s exports
to Germany during January-November 2011 were $4.2 billion, an increase
of 19.6 percent compared to the same period in 2010. Most impressively,
Indonesia runs a trade surplus with Germany, which in 2010 was $1.3
billion.<br /><br />Which seems set to increase. During a recent meeting
between Indonesian and German government officials, among the topics of
discussion for future cooperation was the renewable energy sector. Among
the Frankfurt presenters, representatives of several German and
Hungarian energy businesses gave presentations on their work in
Indonesia, including Benreg AG, which works with green energy and a
Hungarian company collaborating with Indonesia’s state-run electricity
company PT PLN to develop solar-generated electricity in remote regions
of Indonesia.<br /><br />And the government is strongly behind a transition
towards renewable and cleaner energy. On 13 February President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono said at a press conference that on 1 April, “We have
to start the process toward energy conversion” from fuel oil to natural
gas, a process that would unfortunately take some time.<br /><br />On 13
February Salamander Bangkanai Energy, operator of the 1,750 square-mile
Bangkanai Production Sharing Contract (PSC) on East Kalimantan,
announced its plans to drill four development wells in its Kerendan
natural gas field concession later this month. A drilling rig, having
been refitted for high pressure-high temperature operations, is expected
to be mobilized from Batam Island, Riau, to Kalimantan by the end of
February and the development drilling will enable the Kerendan gas field
to be put into production. <br /><br />So, what does this mean for the future?<br /><br />Last
month Thomson Reuters StockReports+ reported that, “Indonesia's energy
sector stocks look undervalued at current levels based on lowest Forward
PGE (Price to Earnings Growth) data… Four out of the top five
(Indonesian) companies with Forward PEG at discount to 5-year average
are from the energy sector… Currently the energy stocks' forward PEGs
are at huge discounts to their historical PEGs. If their forward PEGs
return to historical form, the stock prices should increase.”<br /><br />Apparently
Wall St. is blessing Indonesia’s move away from a petroleum-based
export economy to a more diversified energy export base, which includes
renewables, including a field in which Indonesia could quickly be a
world leader, given its geography – thermal power.<br /><br />Accordingly,
all that seems lacking to propel Indonesia’s transition to a
post-petroleum energy economy is capital and some foreign expertise. It
will be interesting to see who provides it.<br />
By. John C.K. Daly of Oilprice.com<br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-88833158221197737302012-07-17T16:38:00.000+08:002012-07-17T16:38:07.001+08:00Spain Paying DEBT... money from renewables???<h2>
<span style="color: #990000;"> </span><span style="color: #990000; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Will Malaysia also be like Spain???</span> <span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-size: small;">No more subsidized electricity tariff for RAKYAT... but only for those who being selected corporate will still enjoy gas subsidies...</span></span> </h2>
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Spain: Rajoy plans to raise cash from renewables</h2>
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<span style="font-size: small;">http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/spain--rajoy-plans-to-raise-cash-from-renewables_100007736/#axzz20qCqHChj </span></h2>
<span class="news-single-timedata">12. July 2012 | <a href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/kategorie/markets-trends/beitrag/spain--rajoy-plans-to-raise-cash-from-renewables_100007736/" title="Markets & Trends">Markets & Trends</a>, <a href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/kategorie/industry-suppliers/beitrag/spain--rajoy-plans-to-raise-cash-from-renewables_100007736/" title="Industry & Suppliers">Industry & Suppliers</a>, <a href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/kategorie/top-news/beitrag/spain--rajoy-plans-to-raise-cash-from-renewables_100007736/" title="Top News">Top News</a> | By: Shamsiah Ali-Oettinger</span>
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Spanish Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy has told
his parliament that tax hikes for the renewable energy sectors would be
part of the solution for the €65 billion deficit in the country. He
made this statement at the address yesterday, where he called on
Spaniards to back the measures that would aid Madrid in cutting its
budget deficit through to 2015.</div>
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<a href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/fileadmin/PVI_website_pictures/Spain_flag_Image_Flickr_cesarastudillo.jpg" rel="lightbox[lb7736]" title="Thr renewables sector could be slapped with a high tax to make up for the country's deficit, adding more burden after the subsidy cuts. "><img alt="" border="0" height="93" src="http://www.pv-magazine.com/typo3temp/pics/Spain_flag_Image_Flickr_cesarastudillo_53530a0e0b.jpg" title="" width="200" /></a><div class="news-single-imgcaption">
Thr
renewables sector could be slapped with a high tax to make up for the
country's deficit, adding more burden after the subsidy cuts. <div class="copyright">
Flickr/cesarastudillo</div>
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It is now confirmed that a new "generation tax" is underway under
this new energy fiscal scheme. This adds to the burden already carried
by the renewable energy sector<a class="external-link" href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/spain-suspends-fits_100005605/#axzz20Ih2KXL4" target="_blank" title="Externer Link im neuen Fenster"> after the subsidy cuts</a>.
Photovoltaic energy is one form that would be charged at higher rates
of 19 percent to raise €550 million. Meanwhile, wind power would be
charged at 11 percent to gain €440 million, as Reuters reports.
<br />
The levy would be imposed to make up the difference between costs and
revenue in the electricity sector. About €24 billion in debt has been
chalked up by the sector. Spain had always charged consumers less than
the cost of energy production, which had led to the deficit. Consumers
are apparently requested now to also bear the burden of the taxes.
<br />
More information is expected to come to light following the next
cabinet meeting this week. Critics have been meanwhile pointing out the
potential impact of such measures on the renewable energy sector in the
country. <br />
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<br />Read more: <a href="http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/spain--rajoy-plans-to-raise-cash-from-renewables_100007736/#ixzz20rmDt5ao" style="color: #003399;">http://www.pv-magazine.com/news/details/beitrag/spain--rajoy-plans-to-raise-cash-from-renewables_100007736/#ixzz20rmDt5ao</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-34836976741440728282012-05-14T14:57:00.000+08:002012-05-14T14:57:23.558+08:00Carbon Creditfrom http://www.climateavenue.com<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: teal; font-size: small;"><b>Malaysia Has Huge Reserve of Carbon Credits</b></span></span></div>
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Carbon credits </span></b><span style="color: #555555;">are
awarded to projects in a country by Designated
Operational Entity <br />
( DOE ) after grilling through the stringent and
complex procedures </span></span></span></span>
</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">
adopted by the UNFCCC to be certified ( called CERs)
as having reducing a real and quantifiable amount of
greenhouse gas <br />
( GHG ). </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">
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<span style="color: #555555;">They are issued as incentives
of the market-based Clean Development Mechanism <br />
( CDM ) of the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon credits are
tradable equities in global climate exchanges just
as securities and commodities in the stock markets.
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Each CER is equivalent to one tonne of carbon
dioxide being prevented from emissions into the
atmosphere. </span>
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Asia emerging as center of carbon trade program</span></b><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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Global carbon credit trading may grow to US$1 trillion in a
decade. <br />
</span><span style="color: #555555; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;">To date, the
single largest bilateral and unilateral carbon market exists in
Asia, with China and India leading the queue. Indonesia and
Malaysia are emerging significantly in the oil palm, cement,
biogas and biofuel sectors. </span></div>
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Average Annual CERs from Registered Projects <br />
by Country 2008 (Chart: UNFCCC)</span></i></span></span></td>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: x-small;"><b>Carbon credit is a
relatively new business</b>, but the Malaysians have
something to be proud of. It is the first in the
world to be awarded CERs by the United Nation
Executive Board of CDM via a biomass project in
Sabah. Malaysia's corporate sectors including
<a href="http://www.climateavenue.com/en.biodiesel.palm.oil.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: #6c6cff;">palm oil</span></a>,
agriculture, transportation, manufacturing, oil and
gas, and the wastewater sectors have been proactive
to capitalize on CDM participation, thus being able
to reap early birds' returns.
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<td width="262"><i><span style="color: #555555;">Number of CDM
projects in Asia by country </span>
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(UNEP - as of Mar 01 2009)
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #555555;"><b>According to Malaysia Energy Centre</b>
( PTM ),
agricultural and natural resources-rich Malaysia has 100 million
tonnes of carbon credit, which can be translated into some RM5
billion in revenue. </span>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: x-small;">CDM related carbon trading in Malaysia is expected to surge in the next few years
from demands by European Unions to meet target reductions by
2012.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: x-small;"><b>
The Malaysia
government has been very supportive and instrumental</b> in the
CDM participation. </span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: x-small;">It has
established
the machinery and mechanisms for smooth implementation to tackle the greenhouse gas
emissions, and the promotion of the carbon trading in the country. The Budget
2008 grants an additional 10 years pioneer status companies involved in energy
conservation, and giving 3 years tax exemption for income derived from
the trading of carbon credits.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #555555; font-size: x-small;"><b>Climate change issue</b> is high on the
international agenda. Global warming is a reality. It is
everybody's concern. Participation in the CDM is very
encouraging from all eligible sectors. While engaging in
sustainable</span><span class="typ_article"><span style="color: #555555;">,
cleaner and greener scheme</span></span><span style="color: #555555; font-size: x-small;"><span class="typ_article">,
corporate entities not only derive extra revenue, but also
exercise </span>good corporate responsibility<span class="typ_article">
in sharing the global effort to mitigate climate change. </span>
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<b>Project types</b> include
<a href="http://www.climateavenue.com/en.biodiesel.palm.oil.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: #6c6cff;">biomass energy from palm oil waste</span></a>;
biogas flaring and generation of biogas power, energy
efficiency; landfills and</span></span><span style="color: #555555;">
wastewater treatment</span><span class="typ_article"><span style="color: #555555;">;
composting of solid biomass waste from the palm oil mill;
hydroelectricity generation from river; biomass-based
cogeneration of power ...etc.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: grey;">As on March 0, 2009, there
are total of 4660 CDM projects in the pipelines, released by
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Risoe Center.
Malaysia has 156 projects or 3.3% in this list. </span></div>
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news:</span></div>
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<a href="http://cdmpipeline.org/cdm-projects-region.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: #6c6cff;">CDM Projects: CDMpipeline.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #6c6cff;"><br />
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<a href="http://www.ptm.org.my/" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: #6c6cff;">Malaysian Energy Center: PTM</span></a><span style="color: #6c6cff;"><br />
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<a href="http://cdm.eib.org.my/cycle/index.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="color: #6c6cff;">CDM Interactive Project Cycle: CDM.eib</span></a><span style="color: #6c6cff;"><br />
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<a class="l" href="http://www.csr-malaysia.org/news/environment/malaysia-realise-potential-carbon-trading-2008030277/" style="text-decoration: none;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #6c6cff;">5 More Years for </span>
</i><span style="color: #6c6cff;"><em>Malaysia</em><i> to Realize Full
Potential in C</i></span></span><em><span style="color: #6c6cff; font-size: x-small;">arbon</span></em></a></span><i><span style="color: #6c6cff; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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NPD Solarbuzz: Top-10 PV cell producers in 2011</h1>
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But the number-one position in 2011 goes to First Solar, the only thin-film manufacturer on the list.</div>
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Finlay Colville</div>
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Finlay Colville is a Senior Analyst with
Solarbuzz, responsible for reporting on solar manufacturing equipment
including technologies, trends and forecasts within the solar industry.
Prior to joining Solarbuzz in April 2010, he was Director of Marketing
for Coherent, Inc.’s solar business unit. He has a B.Sc. in physics from
the University of Glasgow and a Ph.D. in laser physics from the
University of St. Andrews, Scotland.</div>
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Not withstanding the tumultuous year for solar cell and thin-film
manufacturers, the top-10 rankings for 2011 saw only a few changes in
position from 12 months ago. Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers
maintained their prominence, securing 8 of the top-10 positions. But the
number-one position in 2011 goes to First Solar, the only thin-film
manufacturer on the list.<br />
According to new research contained within the latest NPD Solarbuzz PV
Equipment Quarterly, the top-10 manufacturers now account for 40% of
global production, down four percentage points from one year ago.<br />
While the decline in contribution from the top-10 cell makers may
appear at odds with the current shakeout of uncompetitive cell makers,
it simply reflects the sheer number of manufacturers that sought to
populate the midstream segment during 2011.<br />
Over 350 c-Si cell and thin-film manufacturers began the year with
production targets ranging from tens of MWs to over 2GW. Although few of
the tier 2 and tier 3 manufacturers came close to meeting their
ambitious goals, it was their collective bullishness (33% Y/Y production
increase) that would become the catalyst in the oversupply that caused
the severe ASP declines during 2011.<br />
Until recently, manufacturers would have been brimming with excitement
at the brand value from securing a high ranking. However, with the
collapse of market price levels, companies now place greater importance
on securing status through cost leadership. This means that rankings
based on internal production now carry less impact than each company’s
weighted cost structure, conferred by the aggregate of their internal
and outsourced production.<br />
However, compiling the ranking of the in-house cell producers
(including both c-Si cell and thin-film panel data, normalized to module
power ratings) does still provide some leading indicators that can
subsequently be used as a health-check on midstream PV manufacturing
trends for 2012.<br />
There has already been extensive industry commentary on the
highly-visible demise in cell manufacturing across Japan, Europe and
North America during 2011. 2012 is likely to be no less challenging for
these manufacturers as Chinese and Taiwanese producers continue to
leverage their cost leadership in end markets.<br />
Third-party tolling and contract manufacturing was (again) a major
feature of 2011 by companies active across the c-Si value-chain. The
overcapacity and oversupply environment provided tier 1
vertically-integrated c-Si manufacturers with considerable flexibility
to produce cells in-house or utilize tier 2 (or Taiwan-based) cell
makers for their own-brand modules. While most tier 1 cell makers had
the nameplate capacity to supply all their module requirements during
2011, many took advantage of the very low spot market conditions to
outsource up to 30% of the cells needed.<br />
That First Solar heads the pack during 2011 and is the only thin-film
manufacturer challenging the leading c-Si cell makers comes as no
surprise. First Solar enacted on production to meet its strong in-house
project pipeline, setting out a downstream-integrated business model
that few others have been able to follow. Going forward though, the
challenge for thin-film producers will be how to best compete against
the dramatically more competitive, low-cost c-Si value-chain.<br />
The strong demand for high-quality c-Si cells from downstream module
producers in China, Japan, Europe and North America has retained Taiwan
producers Motech, Gintech, and Neo Solar Power in the top-10 list. Cells
produced in Taiwan have increasingly been securing industry-leading
brand where manufacturers have been able to successfully combine quality
(high-efficiency and high yield) and low-cost. Other Taiwan cell makers
Solartech and DelSolar also feature strongly within the top cell
rankings for 2011. Collectively, these five Taiwan cell makers produced
more than 3.6GW during 2011, with much of this cleared from inventory by
year-end.<br />
The anti-dumping case in the US has created an air of uncertainty and
confusion around cell-production origin. Contingency plans being drawn
up by many of the leading Chinese cell producers for sales into North
America are based upon the use of Taiwan-produced cells. Therefore, this
is likely to cause at least a short term increase in the share of cell
production from Taiwan.<br />
Another highlight is the emergence of Trina Solar. At a time of
‘flight-to-quality’, the success of Trina transitioning from a
module-only to a cell-and-module leader is a consequence of the
company’s focus on cost structure. Ignoring the temptation to introduce
high-risk advanced cell concepts into production, Trina has been
thriving on low-cost, standard process-flow cell production lines.<br />
The forecast for 2012 in-house cell production will further extend the
trends shown for 2011, with possibly LDK-Solar added as a leading cell
producer. However, with no shortage of nameplate capacity shipped to
lower tier producers, many still harbour aspirations to gain
market-share from the top-ranked companies. Ultimately, it will be the
combination of low-cost and high-quality product, together with access
to end markets, that will determine who emerges at the top of the list
in 2012, during another year where policy adjustments in Europe will
temper the industry’s growth rate.<br />
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PV-Tech recently announced that its <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/top_10_pv_tech_blogs_of_2011" target="_blank">most read blog post of 2011</a> was an article from IMS Research entitled <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/guest_blog/pv_module_costs_and_924_911_prices_what_is_really_happening" target="_blank">‘PV module costs and prices – what is really happening?’</a>,
written almost 18 months ago in August 2010. The popularity of this
post clearly says something about what the PV industry was talking about
throughout all of last year, and still will be talking about in 2012.<br />
Looking back now at the article I thought it would be interesting to
revisit some of the predictions made versus what happened in reality, as
well as considering what the future holds 12 months on.<br />
<strong>Why didn’t the PV industry see 2011’s price collapse coming and why did it hurt so much?</strong><br />
I’m sure no one will disagree that making predictions about the PV
industry is a challenge. Whilst every effort can be made to include
every possible outcome or variable, an unpredictable political decision,
or better-than-expected weather conditions (e.g. Germany at the end of
2011) can make a big difference. But it looks like we got this one
right, when we predicted back in 2010 “that installations in EMEA will
decline by 80% Q-o-Q in Q1’11. This, coupled with capacities that have
been ramped to their maximum in order to serve the strong demand of
H2’10, is forecast to quickly reverse the current imbalance between
supply and demand, and average PV module prices are forecast to commence
their downward trend once again.”<br />
As early as the middle of 2010, IMS Research (and we weren’t the only
ones I’m sure) were predicting that 2011 would see oversupply, and
ultimately trouble, for suppliers; but still the capacity expansions
continued and production lines continued to churn out more modules
causing inventory levels to balloon. The industry was still in expansion
mode after spending all of 2010 trying to keep capacity up with demand.<br />
Throughout 2011, IMS Research predicted that demand would grow by at
least 20%, though few agreed with us. As late as September 2011, PV
component suppliers were still saying that “there is no way
installations will go past 20GW - it’s going to be more like 16GW”. Our
latest analysis and checks show that in actual fact installations
exceeded even our predictions and more than 26GW of PV was installed in
2011 (note we count installations, not connections). So why then did
2011 hurt suppliers so much? Most industries would have been delighted
at the prospect of 30% underlying demand growth, so why couldn’t they
‘see’ that demand and why did PV manufacturers have such a terrible
2011?<br />
There are two key reasons why.<br />
Firstly, a 30% increase in demand is a somewhat modest increase in
comparison to the capacity expansions executed by the majority of
suppliers, who looked to double their capacities (and production) during
the year. Many suppliers were still able to grow their shipments in
2011, but not by enough to stop their newly installed production
equipment from remaining expensively underutilised or their stock levels
from growing rapidly. Whilst demand for modules was growing, in
comparison to 2010’s triple-digit growth, it felt like it wasn’t.<br />
Secondly, although full-year megawatt shipments and installations grew
considerably, much of the demand came towards the end of the year. In
fact, nearly 40% of installations happened in the last quarter. What
this meant was that the relatively weak demand in the first half of the
year led to high channel inventory and collapsing prices as many
suppliers sold at a loss, holding out for the good times to return. The
fiercely competitive pricing seen throughout 2011 meant that industry
revenues actually declined by around 15% for PV modules. More modules
were made, more modules were shipped, and more modules were installed;
but the suppliers of them made less money.<br />
<strong>Costs are down– but not as much as prices</strong><br />
Last year will certainly be remembered for being the year that prices
were, for the most part, in free fall. Much has been written about the
spectacular decline of ASPs throughout 2011, but the simple facts are
that demand in Europe stopped abruptly in early 2011 caused largely by
the cancellation of Italy’s FiT, but capacity expansions continued
uninterrupted. The result was that whilst modules could easily be sold
at almost any price in 2010, the market suddenly became very
competitive. With gigawatts of modules flooding the market, and very
little to differentiate one from the other, unsurprisingly competition
naturally came down to price. However, many were surprised at just how
low prices went. Crystalline prices at the end of 2011 were a massive
45% lower than they had been at the end of 2010, exceeding even the most
aggressive forecast for price reductions.<br />
It doesn’t take an economist to see that to significantly reduce prices
(and survive), you will need to significantly reduce your costs as
well, and this was certainly not the case. No supplier was able to
reduce their cost structures at the same rate as their prices and
margins throughout the industry have certainly felt the consequences.
Average gross-margins for crystalline PV module suppliers have fallen
into the single-digits, having been in the high twenties a year ago.<br />
For crystalline module manufacturers, the biggest difficulty in
reducing costs lies in the comparatively stubborn pricing of
polysilicon. Whilst much has been reported of polysilicon prices
declining rapidly and reaching record lows, particularly in the second
half of 2011, the reality is that the silicon being offered at these low
prices is from lower-tier suppliers and sold on the spot market. As the
majority of PV-grade silicon is supplied under long-term contracts,
fluctuations in spot pricing have only a small effect on the actual
average price that suppliers are buying polysilicon at.<br />
<strong>How will suppliers become profitable again?</strong><br />
With incentive levels likely to be pared back considerably in 2012,
module suppliers’ cost structures remain at the mercy of stubborn
long-term polysilicon prices, and hopes for future cost reduction are
understandably pinned poly prices falling. This is likely to happen in
2012, especially given that the capacity expansions of Tier-1 suppliers
(originally put in motion several years ago) that are due to come online
during the year. Tier-1 capacity for polysilicon is predicted to reach
close to 300,000 MT in 2012 – enough to serve over 40GW of
installations; yet installations are forecast to be broadly flat at
26-28 GW. With Tier-1 polysilicon capacity alone enough to serve the
entire market, and suppliers like GCL claiming costs are reaching close
to US$20/kg, things are likely to get a lot more competitive for the big
polysilicon players. This will create some much needed breathing room
back to downstream manufacturers’ cost structures.<br />
With impending polysilicon price drops likely, many suppliers have
begun accepting penalty charges for cancelling long-term supply
contracts in order to purchase polysilicon, wafers and cells on the spot
market instead, or renegotiate new contracts.<br />
Looking back at 2011, there are certain similarities that can be drawn
to 2009 (changes in government subsidies causing a sharp slowdown in
demand, leading to over supply, falling prices and consequently a strong
end to the year and many being surprised that installations grew), but
there is one clear difference – it will not be followed by another year
of massive demand like 2010 and 2012 will undoubtedly be a lot tougher
for suppliers.<br />
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<b>UPDATE 01.25.12:</b> The geomagnetic storm on the night of January
24-25 produced brilliant aurora at high latitudes as seen in this image
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<b>UPDATE 01.24.12:</b> The coronal mass ejection CME collided with
Earth's magnetic field a little after 10 AM ET on January 24, 2012.
NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center has categorized the resulting
storm as "strong" -- or S3 (with S5 being the highest) -- storm. Solar
radiation storms can affect satellite operations and short wave radio
propagation, but cannot harm humans on Earth. Auroras may well be
visible tonight at higher latitudes such as Michigan and Maine in the
U.S., and perhaps even lower.<br />
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<span class="story_header2"><b>3 in green energy talks 1MDB</b></span><br />
PETALING JAYA: <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=1Malaysia%20Development%20Bhd%20%281MDB%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB)</a></span> and
General Electric (GE) are among three companies currently in talks to develop
the country's first geothermal plant in Apas, Tawau.<br />
The third company in the venture, tagged at between RM750mil and RM800mil, is
a Sabah-based green energy company which has inked a power purchase agreement
with <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Sabah%20Electricity%20Sdn%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Sabah Electricity Sdn Bhd</a></span>.<br />
Sources familiar with the project told <i>StarBiz</i> that the companies were
in the final stage of negotiations and expected to reach a joint agreement soon,
possibly end of the month.<br />
The renewable energy plant, when fully completed, can generate a total
capacity of 67MW, supplying electricity to Tawau's population of 398,000.<br />
The emission-free geothermal plant will tap natural hot fluids from the
ground for steam production to drive the steam turbine generator; it will
generate 36MW under phase one and an additional 31MW under phase two.<br />
When contacted, a 1MDB spokesperson said the company did not comment on
speculation.<br />
Following 1MDB's recent acquisition of <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Tanjong%20Energy%20Holdings%20Sdn%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Tanjong Energy Holdings Sdn Bhd</a></span>,
<span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Shahrol%20Halmi" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">CEO Shahrol Halmi</a></span> had said it “signals the first step
towards fulfilling the shareholder's aspiration for a more holistic eco-system
to drive long-term energy security”.<br />
According to the sources, GE will provide technical know-how, global
expertise, equipment and technology.<br />
GE is currently involved in Indonesia's biggest geothermal power plant, the
Wayang Windu power plant, which taps into naturally occurring underground
pockets of steam and hot water with wells as deep as three km.<br />
In March 2011, Deputy Natural Resources and <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Tan%20Sri%20Joseph%20Kurup" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Environment Minister Tan Sri Joseph
Kurup</a></span> revealed that studies regarding the electricity generation
potential of up to 67MW from geothermal resources discovered at a geothermal
site in Apas had been completed.<br />
Although a study by the Mineral and Geosciences Department was not a detailed
one, the technical aspects indicated that the geothermal site in Apas had the
potential to generate enough electricity to cater for the needs of the Tawau
people.<br />
The study also found a reservoir about 2,000m to 3,000m below the earth's
surface with water at temperatures of 220-236 degrees Celsius. This heat was
more than sufficient to generate electricity, Kurup had said after visiting the
site.<br />
On Tuesday, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Datuk%20Seri%20Najib%20Tun%20Razak" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun
Razak</a></span> said: “Malaysia's embracing of green technology is not only to
conserve and preserve its resources, but is also envisaged to act as a new
economic impetus for the country.”<br />
The Prime Minister said the renewable energy target under the 10th Malaysia
Plan was 5.5% of the total capacity mix in 2015 or 985MW of generating capacity,
from less than 1% previously.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-3250774504162550912012-03-21T23:28:00.001+08:002012-03-21T23:28:21.828+08:00Time frame set for renewable energy to impact electricity supply<br />
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thestar: Monday March 19, 2012<br />
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Time frame set for renewable energy to impact electricity supply<br />
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By YAP LENG KUEN <br />
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lengkuen@thestar.com.my<br />
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PUTRAJAYA: A three-year time frame is being set for renewable energy (RE) activities to kick off with expected higher funding and quotas.<br />
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“We are now at the stage of looking at this preliminary period in the implementation process,” Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water Datuk Seri Peter Chin told StarBiz.<br />
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“We would like to see a higher level of RE being generated in the future. But it is better to be more cautious and look at what this preliminary process is like in our implementation and the administration process by the Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA Malaysia). We have to learn from this preliminary phase before we proceed in a more aggressive manner.<br />
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We are looking at about three years to see how this RE is performing especially with solar energy. — Datuk Seri Peter Chin<br />
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“We are looking at about three years to see how this RE is performing especially with solar energy for which the cost of solar production is getting lower and lower.”<br />
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On the progress of the RE sector, Chin said: “We are restricted by the amount in the kitty called the RE Fund for which we can only collect 1% from each account holder of Tenaga Nasional Bhd. Therefore, the quota that is being created to implement this feed-in tariff has to be rather small.<br />
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“Because of that, it will take time for RE to really take effect in terms of the impact that it can create on the total electricity supply.<br />
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“If the fund is higher, the quota can be increased and more RE can be generated. That will be good for the country in terms of emission of carbon and the fact that RE is considered a cleaner source of energy.”<br />
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Currently, 398 applicants have received the feed-in approvals. Out of these, 71 have signed the standardised renewable energy power purchase agreements (REPPAs).<br />
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FIT payments can only be made to those developers who have signed the REPPAs and implemented their projects successfully.<br />
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Industry players suggest there should be a liability imposed on those who have not implemented their projects as money is a scarce resource.<br />
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“In fact, they should be relieved of their allocation so that others can take their place. Deadlines should be set for implementation; under the REPPAs, there may be deadlines stipulated but who is actually monitoring all this?” asked an industry player.<br />
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SEDA Malaysia acts as a one-stop centre to facilitate interested parties in all matters related to RE; it is also working with relevant training institutes to set up a centre of excellence for each RE source.<br />
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In terms of research and development, SEDA Malaysia is working on an R&D roadmap for RE.<br />
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It has also been tasked to raise awareness on RE; one main awareness programme that has been planned is a sustainable energy conference<br />
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thestar: Wednesday March 21, 2012<br />
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Govt considering inclusion of wind and thermal as renewable energy sources<br />
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PETALING JAYA: The Government is considering including wind and thermal in the country's renewable energy (RE) mix, said Energy, Green Technology and Water Minister Datuk Seri Peter Chin.<br />
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“Under Seda (Sustainable Energy Development Authority), we had only included solar, biomass, biogas, and hydro (to generate RE).<br />
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“So now we are looking into wind as well as thermal,” he said after witnessing the signing of a technology transfer agreement for the maglev turbine system between China-based Shenzhen Timar Scenery Energy Technology Co Ltd and Timar Wind Solar Energy Sdn Bhd.<br />
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Clean resources: (from left) Chin, Lee, Shenzhen Timar Scenery Energy chairman Lin Wen Qi and Energy, Green Technology and Water Ministry senior secretary (energy sector) Badaruddin Mahyudin at the signing ceremony.<br />
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He added that the outlook for wind power was bright and wind power capacity was expected to achieve about 50,000MW this year.<br />
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In many parts of the world, Chin said, using wind for power generation was still a more cost effective option compared with solar.<br />
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With the commencement of the Renewable Energy Act 2011, feed-in-tariff system, and the setting up of Seda as the central authority for the RE industry, he said Malaysia's RE capacity was projected to reach 2,080MW by 2020, or some 11% of the total peak electricity demand.<br />
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Domestic RE generation could also prevent some 42 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020 and create at least RM70bil in revenue from RE plants and over 50,000 jobs in the sector.<br />
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Meanwhile, Timar Wind Solar Energy chief executive officer Simon Lee said that for this year, the company would invest RM500mil in phase one of its energy production for both the local and South-East Asian markets. Its factory would begin operations this year.<br />
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Its factory would begin operations this year.<br />
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Wednesday March 14, 2012</h3>
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IRM gets OK to set up solar station</h1>
<br /> PETALING JAYA: Plastics manufacturer <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=IRM%20Group%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">IRM Group Bhd</a></span>
has been granted the feed-in approval by the Sustainable Energy
Development Authority (Seda) to install a solar power station with a
maximum capacity of 5MW in Kangar, Perlis.<br />
The company said in an announcement to <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Bursa%20Malaysia" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Bursa Malaysia</a></span>
that the feed-in tariff was scheduled to commence from April 9, 2013
and to last 21 years while a power purchase agreement would also be
signed with Seda and <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Tenaga%20Nasional%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Tenaga Nasional Bhd</a></span>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-68335633205824357792012-02-08T15:26:00.000+08:002012-02-08T15:26:15.049+08:00Wednesday February 8, 2012 Moratorium for feed-in licence to prevent abuse By LEONG HUNG YEE hungyee@thestar.com.my PETALING JAYA: Power generation licence for public as issued by the Energy Commission has a two-year moratorium on changes to equity structure to prevent abuse of the feed-in-tariff (FiT) system and to allow other interested parties to apply, said Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (Seda) chief executive officer Badriyah Abdul Malek. However, Badriyah said, renewable energy power purchase agreement for individuals owning solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in their homes allowed for the transfer of the feed-in approval (FiA) to the new owner upon the sale of their property. Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is obliged to buy renewable power produced by licensed players at special rates. The rates are known as feed-in tariff, and referred to the idea of producers selling their energy to the power grid. “To prevent FiA holders from just sitting on their FiA certificates, the applicants are required to provide their work plan with milestones. If a milestone is reached and there is no progress even after a reminder has been sent to the holder, then the certificate may be revoked,” Badriyah told StarBiz. As at September 2011, Malaysia has 40MW grid-connected power from biomass resources, 4.95MW from biogas resources, 12.5MW from small hydro resources, 5MW from solid waste resources and 2.5MW from solar PV resources. Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, TNB is obliged to buy renewable power produced by licensed players at special rates. Seda has approved about 20 solar PV projects for non-individual category with project size ranging from 1MW to 5MW. When the e-FiT online system started on Dec 1, 2011, Seda received loads of application for FiT for solar PV. Quota for producing solar PV was snapped up instantaneously by companies due to the limited quota, high premium and guaranteed earnings over the next 21 years. Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, TNB will pay up to RM1.40 per kWh energy produced from solar farms that it buys from. Due to the overwhelming response to solar PV, the FiT applications for solar PV are limited to a maximum 5MW rated capacity. There is another 2.36MW quota (for non-individual applicants for project size ranging from 1MW to 5MW) available from this year until the first half of 2014. According to Seda's Renewable Energy Capacity Map, there are at least eight projects with capacity of 5MW approved, one with 4.5MW, one with 4MW while the rest ranges from 1.01MW to 2.47MW. The project owners includes Cypark Suria (Pajam) Sdn Bhd (5MW), Ambang Fiesta Sdn Bhd (5MW), Silverstar Pavilion Sdn Bhd (2 x 5MW), Bumi Masyhur Industri Sdn Bhd (5MW), Diversified Harvest Sdn Bhd (5MW), Gading Kencana Sdn Bhd (5MW), Special Universal Sdn Bhd (2.5MW), Corporate Season Sdn Bhd (4MW), Gubahan Ceria Sdn Bhd (4.5MW) and Kumpulan Melaka Bhd (1.22MW). There is little information about the project owners. A random check with the Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) shows that Ambang Fiesta has Mahadzir Hashim and Datuk Abdul Talib Md Zin as its directors. The company was registered last August with no financial details available. Silverstar Pavilion, which has two 5MW projects, was registered in November and listed Narayanaswami Subramaniam and Ramkumar Devarajan as directors. Cypark Suria is a subsidiary of Cypark Resources Bhd. Cypark Resources had said it expected to generate annual revenue of up to RM17mil upon full commencement of its renewable energy park. Kumpulan Melaka Bhd had previously announced that its RM40mil solar PV project would be developed on a 6.9ha land in Rembia, Malacca. The project is expected to be completed by year-end.<h3 id="story_date">
<span style="font-size: small;">Thestar: Wednesday February 8, 2012</span></h3>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">By LEONG HUNG YEE <br /><a href="mailto:hungyee@thestar.com.my">hungyee@thestar.com.my</a></span></h2>
<br /> PETALING JAYA: Power generation licence for public as
issued by the Energy Commission has a two-year moratorium on changes to
equity structure to prevent abuse of the feed-in-tariff (FiT) system and
to allow other interested parties to apply, said Sustainable Energy
Development Authority Malaysia (Seda) <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Badriyah%20Abdul%20Malek" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">chief executive officer Badriyah Abdul Malek</a></span>.<br />
However,
Badriyah said, renewable energy power purchase agreement for
individuals owning solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in their homes
allowed for the transfer of the feed-in approval (FiA) to the new owner
upon the sale of their property.<br />
Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Tenaga%20Nasional%20Bhd%20%28TNB%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB)</a></span>
is obliged to buy renewable power produced by licensed players at
special rates. The rates are known as feed-in tariff, and referred to
the idea of producers selling their energy to the power grid.<br />
“To
prevent FiA holders from just sitting on their FiA certificates, the
applicants are required to provide their work plan with milestones. If a
milestone is reached and there is no progress even after a reminder has
been sent to the holder, then the certificate may be revoked,” Badriyah
told <i>StarBiz</i>.<br />
As at September 2011, Malaysia has 40MW
grid-connected power from biomass resources, 4.95MW from biogas
resources, 12.5MW from small hydro resources, 5MW from solid waste
resources and 2.5MW from solar PV resources.<br />
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<img alt="" height="328" src="http://biz.thestar.com.my/archives/2012/2/8/business/b_3TNB.jpg" width="350" /> <span class="caption">Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, TNB is obliged to buy renewable power produced by licensed players at special rates.</span> </div>
Seda has approved about 20 solar PV projects for non-individual category with project size ranging from 1MW to 5MW.<br />
When
the e-FiT online system started on Dec 1, 2011, Seda received loads of
application for FiT for solar PV. Quota for producing solar PV was
snapped up instantaneously by companies due to the limited quota, high
premium and guaranteed earnings over the next 21 years.<br />
Under the Renewable Energy Act 2011, TNB will pay up to RM1.40 per kWh energy produced from solar farms that it buys from.<br />
Due
to the overwhelming response to solar PV, the FiT applications for
solar PV are limited to a maximum 5MW rated capacity. There is another
2.36MW quota (for non-individual applicants for project size ranging
from 1MW to 5MW) available from this year until the first half of 2014.<br />
According
to Seda's Renewable Energy Capacity Map, there are at least eight
projects with capacity of 5MW approved, one with 4.5MW, one with 4MW
while the rest ranges from 1.01MW to 2.47MW.<br />
The project owners includes <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Cypark%20Suria%20%28Pajam%29%20Sdn%20Bhd%20%285MW%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Cypark Suria (Pajam) Sdn Bhd (5MW)</a></span>, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Ambang%20Fiesta%20Sdn%20Bhd%20%285MW%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Ambang Fiesta Sdn Bhd (5MW)</a></span>, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Silverstar%20Pavilion%20Sdn%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Silverstar Pavilion Sdn Bhd</a></span> (2 x 5MW), <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Bumi%20Masyhur%20Industri%20Sdn%20Bhd%20%285MW%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Bumi Masyhur Industri Sdn Bhd (5MW)</a></span>, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Diversified%20Harvest%20Sdn%20Bhd%20%285MW%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Diversified Harvest Sdn Bhd (5MW)</a></span>, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Gading%20Kencana%20Sdn%20Bhd%20%285MW%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Gading Kencana Sdn Bhd (5MW)</a></span>, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Special%20Universal%20Sdn%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Special Universal Sdn Bhd</a></span> (2.5MW), <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Corporate%20Season%20Sdn%20Bhd%20%284MW%29" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Corporate Season Sdn Bhd (4MW)</a></span>, <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Gubahan%20Ceria%20Sdn%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Gubahan Ceria Sdn Bhd</a></span> (4.5MW) and <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Kumpulan%20Melaka%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Kumpulan Melaka Bhd</a></span> (1.22MW).<br />
There
is little information about the project owners. A random check with the
Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) shows that Ambang Fiesta has
Mahadzir Hashim and <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Datuk%20Abdul%20Talib%20Md%20Zin" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Datuk Abdul Talib Md Zin</a></span> as its directors. The company was registered last August with no financial details available.<br />
Silverstar
Pavilion, which has two 5MW projects, was registered in November and
listed Narayanaswami Subramaniam and Ramkumar Devarajan as directors.<br />
<span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Cypark" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Cypark</a></span> Suria is a subsidiary of <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=Cypark%20Resources%20Bhd" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">Cypark Resources Bhd</a></span>.
Cypark Resources had said it expected to generate annual revenue of up
to RM17mil upon full commencement of its renewable energy park.<br />
Kumpulan
Melaka Bhd had previously announced that its RM40mil solar PV project
would be developed on a 6.9ha land in Rembia, Malacca. The project is
expected to be completed by year-end.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-16045745089923365222011-12-13T16:45:00.002+08:002011-12-13T16:45:40.260+08:00Now you and I can also be an independent power producer<h3 id="story_date">
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<span style="font-size: small;">Now you and I can also be an independent power producer</span></h1>
<br /> <span class="story_header2"><b>Households as clean, sustainable electricity producers?</b></span><br />
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In the mid-1990s, there were only “big” boys in electricity generation such as <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=YTL%20Corp" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">YTL Corp</a></span>,
Genting Sanyen and Malakoff. They were popularly known as Independent
Power producers' or IPPs and were looked upon with envy as it was
alleged that they were making big bucks because of relatively high rates
they received from TNB.<br />
Fast forward 15 years. Now you and I can
also be an IPP (the term “clean and sustainable electricity producer”
is preferred) albeit a very much smaller one but with a difference.<br />
Any
owner of a link, semi-detached or bungalow house can now be, subject to
approval, a small clean and sustainable energy producer by generating
green electricity (as opposed to fossil-fuelled electricity by the big
IPPs) and distribution licensee (such as <span class="knx-annotation"><a href="http://archives.thestar.com.my/search/?q=TNB" rel="foaf:homepage" target="_blank">TNB</a></span>)
is obliged to purchase it. What all this means is that if you have a
solar photovoltaic (PV) generator at home, you can apply to connect this
generator to the grid, and get paid for selling the electricity
generated to TNB over the next 21 years.<br />
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Solar
energy is clean, environmentally friendly and has zero emissions. There
is no depletion of natural resources and it is one of the fastest
growing energy sources in the world.<br />
And yes the rates are very
attractive for generating electricity using solar photovoltaic (PV)
technology; it is about four times the normal domestic TNB electricity
rates (at RM0.40 per kWh). All you have to do is simply to apply and
obtain a feed-in approval from the newly-established Sustainable Energy
Development Authority Malaysia (Seda Malaysia), sign a renewable energy
power purchase agreement (REPPA) with TNB and install the solar PV
system on your rooftop.<br />
On the average, the bungalow is able to
produce about 1,000 kWh of electricity per month (based on 10kW
installed PV capacity). Given this, the owner may earn about RM1,200 per
month (based on FiT rate RM1.20 per kWh if the PV system is
commissioned by 2012) and recoup his investment within eight to nine
years. The earnings may be even higher if the house owner meets other
bonus criteria such as installing as a building-integrated PV system.
The current cost of 1 kW solar PV system ranges from RM12,000 to
RM14,000.<br />
The interesting thing is that for your average
household needs, you purchase the electricity from TNB at between RM0.33
to 42.6 per kWh but when you produce the clean electricity, you can
sell it at between RM1.20 to RM1.70 per kWh depending on the installed
capacity and the qualifying bonus criteria for solar PV.<br />
The
longer the sun shines, the more one can “export” electricity to the
national grid during daylight hours (when power is urgently needed) and
earn income. The downside and risk is that during cloudy days, the
income can be reduced significantly when the sun is not shining. If you
apply now, you can lock in these premium rates for the next 21 years!<br />
Unlike
the huge IPPs which use natural gas or coal as feedstock to generate
electricity, the household does not need to pay for any raw material or
fuel because sunshine is free. For as long as the sun is shining, the
solar PV panels will generate electricity. Another advantage of solar
power is that no extra space is required because the panels can be
installed on the rooftop. (Suddenly rooftops have income potential. Many
factory owners are now contemplating installing solar PV panels on
their rooftop to earn extra revenue while others are approaching factory
owners to rent them their roofs.)<br />
On Dec 1 2011, Seda Malaysia
invited the public including households, small and not-so-big IPPs
(maximum size is 30 MW but only 5 MWp rated capacity for solar PV) to
apply and book the amount of green electricity they intended to produce
to sell it to the distribution licensee. There are fixed quotas for each
of the four renewable energy sources namely biomass (including solid
waste), biogas (including landfill), small hydro and solar PV. There was
overwhelming response to solar PV especially for the non-individuals.<br />
The
good news is that bookings are still open for individuals and
households intending to install solar PV systems as there is still
available capacity for this category. As at Dec 7, Seda reported that
the total unfulfilled quota for solar PV is 6,650 kW; 1,650 kW to be
commissioned by the first half 2013, 2500 kW each for second half of
2013 and first half of 2014.<br />
Translating these figures into
households, it would mean that about 665 bungalow owners can avail
themselves to the remaining capacity (assuming their average capacity is
10 kW). If all of the remaining capacity is taken up by semi-detached
owners, the number will increase to 1,330 assuming their installed PV
capacity is 5 kW. The figure for typical link houses, assuming an
installed capacity of 3 kW, is 2,217 households.<br />
The price
guarantee for 21 years has been made possible by the Feed-in Tariff
(FiT) scheme implemented by Seda Malaysia. This scheme will be financed
by the newly-established Renewable Energy (RE) Fund, to which all
electricity users (except for those domestic customers consuming less
than 300 kWh per month) will be required to contribute an additional 1%
of their electricity bill.<br />
House-owners who do not participate in
solar PV electricity generation should not begrudge the payment of the
additional 1%. Instead they should view it as one of their contributions
to a cleaner and healthier environment. This is their social
contribution for cleaner air. The public and community must also share
in undertaking this heavy responsibility with the Government.<br />
<i>Dr
Pola Singh is a board member of the Sustainable Energy Development
Authority (Seda), Malaysia. The views expressed are his own. The public
can apply for the feed-in approval via efit.seda.gov.my and more
information can be obtained from Seda's official portal at
www.seda.gov.my</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-27721726303043834852011-11-18T12:10:00.001+08:002011-11-18T12:13:10.952+08:00Panasonic to build solar panel plant in M'sia reports Nikkei<strong><span style="color: red;">I'm thinking, do we go for higher income economy or still doing fabs and assembly jobs?? Wondering???</span></strong><br />
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Thestar: Published: Friday November 18, 2011 MYT 7:38:00 AM<br />
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TOKYO: Panasonic Corp will invest 50 billion yen ($645 million) to build a solar panel plant in Malaysia, to bolster output by a third to 900,000 kilowatts, the Nikkei business daily reported.<br />
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The plant, which will open in 2012, will be its first full-range production facility outside Japan that will make silicon wafers and complete final assembly of panels, the Nikkei said.<br />
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By building panels overseas the Japanese company is aiming to remain competitive as a strong yen at home pushes up production costs, the paper said<br />
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Panasonic, which has been touting environmental and energy technology as key growth areas, in October dropped a plan to convert a television plant into a solar power factory because of the strong yen and an industry price war. ($1 = 76.985 Japanese Yen) <br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-3548580227429028812011-11-17T14:22:00.001+08:002011-11-17T14:27:42.143+08:00Solar Cell - Red and Blue??Interesting quote from below article <strong>"That means every single cell on a manufacturing line can be assessed and then sorted into bins so the cells that respond best to, say, <span style="color: red;">red</span> or <span style="color: blue;">blue</span> are kept together on the same solar module. That way, a mismatched blue-response cell on a module won't put the brakes on all the work the red-response cells are doing. And that means more efficient conversion of photons into electricity at sunrise and <span style="color: red;">sunset</span> when the <span style="color: red;">red </span>wavelengths predominate."</strong><br />
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<strong>NREL invention speeds solar cell quality tests</strong><br />
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To come up with a way to do something 1,000 times faster than it had been done in the past, you have to count on some serendipity -- not to mention hard work, collaboration and good timing. <br />
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Such was the case with three scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory, who somewhat accidentally developed a way to assess the quality of solar cells at a speed that is orders of magnitude faster than had been done before.<br />
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The instrument, Real-time QE, licensed and embellished by Tau Science Corp. as FlashQE, uses light-emitting diodes, high-speed electronics and mathematical algorithms to measure the quantum efficiency of solar cells up to 1,000 times faster than had been done before. The technology won a 2011 R&D 100 Award, as one of the year's most significant innovations.<br />
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What used to take 20 minutes — and therefore could be done only with random samples of cells — now can be done in a second. <strong><span style="color: #274e13;">That means every single cell on a manufacturing line can be assessed and then sorted into bins so the cells that respond best to, say, <span style="color: red;">red</span> or <span style="color: blue;">blue</span> are kept together on the same solar module. That way, a mismatched blue-response cell on a module won't put the brakes on all the work the red-response cells are doing. And that means more efficient conversion of photons into electricity at sunrise and <span style="color: red;">sunset</span> when the <span style="color: red;">red</span> wavelengths predominate.</span></strong><br />
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Speed Means Putting Every Cell to the Test<br />
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Quantum-efficiency measurements indicate how well a solar cell converts the various wavelengths of sunlight into electricity. More precisely, QE is the ratio of the number of light-generated charge carriers collected by a solar cell to the number of photons of a given energy that are shining on the solar cell.<br />
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Today's solar cell manufacturing lines test each cell to determine useful cell parameters such as how much current and voltage is generated. But those tests give no information about how the cell responds to each color of light in the solar spectrum. <br />
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Flash QE's ability to also test for each cell's response to color allows crucial extra information to be fed back into the production line. It does it so fast, that cells of the same current and the same response to particular colors can be sorted into particular bins. From these sorted bins, spectrally matched modules can be made to optimize the energy produced throughout a day. <br />
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Traditionally, determining how a single cell responds to different wavelengths of light has taken 20 minutes so only about one in 1,000 cells are plucked from the manufacturing process for that extra test.<br />
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Flash QE, though, has the speed to supply that extra rich information for every cell.<br />
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It likely will mean significant jumps in the efficiency values of future solar modules and arrays that power the fast-growing solar industry as well as much better manufacturing line diagnostics.<br />
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FlashQE comes on the market at a time when solar manufacturers are working to weed out any profit-robbing costs from their production lines, boost the conversion efficiencies of solar cells, and move toward the U.S. Department of Energy cost goals established within the "SunShot" initiative.<br />
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It started in some small labs in NREL's Science and Technology Facility.<br />
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"I almost forget what we were originally looking for," principal investigator David Young said, recalling the time seven years ago when he was examining how different wavelengths of light penetrated to different depths in a solar cell. "We just wanted to come up with a real simple way of shining light of different colors."<br />
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Enter Brian Egaas, who worked close by and was doing work on quantum efficiency.<br />
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"We started looking at LEDs as the source of light, and I remember coming into the lab one day and saying, 'There are enough LEDs now that we can probably get every color of the rainbow,'" Egaas said.<br />
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But this work wasn't an official project. So, they went to their group leader, Rommel Noufi, who saw enough promise that he agreed to let them have $1,000 to buy some LEDs.<br />
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Egaas found a mom-and-pop shop in Vienna, Austria, that would supply them with LEDs that spanned the solar spectrum — and let them buy just a couple of each color, rather than the hundreds that are bundled together from larger suppliers.<br />
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The timing was fortuitous. LEDs spanning the solar cell spectrum wouldn't have been available a year or two earlier, and the computing power to gather all the information needed in parallel wouldn't have been available much earlier than that either.<br />
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"This invention came about at the time when it first could come about," Young said. "When enough LEDs were just coming onto the market, and when we had enough high-speed computer capability to get all that data coming out of the cells."<br />
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"We mocked it up, and turned on one LED at a time, to make the measurements," Egaas said.<br />
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"But there was just too much noise in the quantum efficiency measurement," Young said. "Brian had the whole thing rigged up, and we tried to pick up the speed of each individual measurement, but it was still taking 20 minutes or so to characterize each cell."<br />
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Operate it Like the Human Brain<br />
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Enter Pauls Stradins, who had a lab in the same corridor, and was keeping a casual eye on progress by Young and Egaas.<br />
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"Pauls walks through our lab one day and says, 'Do you realize you can run all those lights at the same time at different frequencies?'" Young recalled.<br />
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"When he said that, the light just kind of went on," Young said. "We all realized, 'Oh, yeah, that's the way to do it.'"<br />
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"I'd been reading a book on how the brain works," Stradins recalled.<br />
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"The brain has many similarities with a computer, but whereas a computer does most things sequentially, the brain has a huge number of parallel channels," Stradins said. "When an image comes in, it doesn't process it 'one pixel, two pixels, three pixels,' it processes it instantly — in parallel."<br />
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Applying the brain's parallel approach to the challenge ahead of them — gathering quantum efficiency data from solar cells with a spectrum of encoded LED light colors — proved to be the key.<br />
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"We knew there were these mathematical things you can do to filter the processes in real time," Stradins said. "Because computers have so much memory now, we could probably just download a whole chunk for one second and get about a million points."<br />
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By arranging for each LED to blink at a different frequency, they could determine how each solar cell generated current in response to certain colors.<br />
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"We arranged it so we could take our test cell and run it against a pre-calibrated cell and learn the quantum efficiency of it," Stradins said.<br />
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"It was a true collaboration," Egaas said. "There were pieces that everybody had that needed to come together."<br />
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Over the next few years, they brought in summer interns to work on a prototype 10-LED device "held together by tape," Young said.<br />
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Transferring the Technology to Private Industry<br />
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Just in time for a scientific conference, they got the first data that proved that rich quantum efficiency information could be gathered almost instantaneously from a solar cell. Young gave a talk on the instrument at an IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference in San Diego. He realized many in the solar industry were intrigued by the promise of a fast quantum-efficiency tool for analyzing solar cells in the lab and on the manufacturing floor.<br />
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The first commercial interest in the product came serendipitously. After being alerted by a colleague that a start-up company was touring NREL trolling for new ideas to market, Young had 10 minutes to write up some notes, then "I gave four guys from Tau Science my off-the-cuff elevator speech."<br />
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"They just got it right like that," Young said. "They knew the solar market would eat up a fast QE system.<br />
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Tau Science made significant improvements to the instrument, patenting their own ideas for LED optics and handling the vast amount of parallel processed data needed for the technique.<br />
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"It's been a great collaboration," Tau Science president Jamie Hudson, said, adding that co-founder Greg Horner got to know NREL while he did some post-doc work here.<br />
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"Quantum efficiency is an extremely fundamental technique in solar cells, and this is the first time it's been able to be done at speeds to keep up with the line," Hudson said. "It tells you the spectral response of the solar cell and also a lot of information about the front and back surfaces. You're able to look at every sample rather than just one out of 1,000."<br />
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Tau Science'sfirst shipment of Flash QE was in early 2011 to Oregon State University, which will use it in its pilot solar-cell production facility.<br />
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The FlashQE system uses an electronically controlled full-spectrum light source composed of an array of LEDs. Each LED emits a different wavelength of light. The LEDs illuminate the cell simultaneously, rather than the serial approach of a conventional system. The key to the technology is that all the LEDs are flashed on and off at different frequencies thereby encoding their particular response in the solar cell. High-speed electronics and mathematics cleverly extract the encoded information to reveal a full-spectrum quantum efficiency graph of the cell. A wide variety of information is gathered in less than a second — information about the ability of the front surface of the cell to absorb high-frequency light, the quality of thin-film surface coatings, the ability of the middle region of a cell to absorb a wide range of wavelengths, how well the back surface absorbs lower-energy light, the ability of the back surface to collect electrons.<br />
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For multi-junction cells, Flash QE can detect how each of the layers performs by using the light source itself to "electronically filter" the light to only measure the response of the cell of interest. <br />
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Flash QE is the quickest diagnostic tool for the quantum efficiency of solar cells, yielding both a voltage current curve showing the amount of power, and a spectral response gauge, diagnosing how the cells respond to different wavelengths of light.<br />
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Manufacturers can get a whole new insight into each of their cells, determining, for example, why they're not getting good responses from their reds.<br />
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Or Flash QE can detect that the blue response is slowly getting worse and worse — in real time, soon enough to alert workers that an adjustment must be made to the line.<br />
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Flash QE works for silicon cells, and also for multijunction cells that use stacks of materials such as gallium and indium. "With Flash QE, you can look at the individual responses of each of the layers," Young said.<br />
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"It's fast enough to do spatial measurement mapping across the cell," Egaas said. "Is the response the same on the edges as it is in the middle? Is there a cooling problem that makes the edge different? They can learn that they have to cool it more slowly, change the process based on the results."<br />
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It's like baking bread, Stradins said. Automated bakeries can produce good bread if the parameters are extremely tight, but if anything goes wrong, a huge batch gets wasted.<br />
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The family baker, able to take frequent peaks inside the oven, has better quality control. That feedback, with bread or with solar cells, is a powerful tool.<br />
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NREL's LED light source also is a stand-alone invention that could be licensed by another company for probing things other than solar cells, ranging from counterfeit bills to skin cancer.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Plan, Act Now! Do renewable energy (REN) policy with scarce fit budget will drive future sustainable energy??? </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Do government and its GLCs taught for future growth or just short terms KPIs for own sake only?? Who cares???</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nine billion reasons to address the world’s energy challenge now</span></h1>
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ON
Oct 31, our world reached a significant milestone: Somewhere, most
likely in Asia, a mother gave birth to Earth's 7 billionth inhabitant,
the United Nations estimates.<br />
At this rate, Earth will be home to
more than 9 billion people by 2050 a number with enormous potential
impact on global demand for energy, water and food.<br />
Planning
wisely for their future energy needs is one of the most important
challenges our generation faces. It is challenging, in part, because the
issues and solutions cross traditional political, geographic and
industry boundaries.<br />
Indeed, we face far more than just an energy
issue. Our future energy challenge is a global security issue, an
environmental issue, an economic and jobs issue.<br />
Our global
energy system already is in the early stages of a fundamental
transformation. The future will see expanded use of renewable energy and
cleaner fossil fuels. We will have more energy choices, but those
choices will be more costly, so we will all have to become smarter about
using energy efficiently.<br />
Despite the enormity of the challenge,
I'm confident human ingenuity and technological innovation can make it
happen. What's lacking today is the common will to act. Getting where we
need to go will require a new level of leadership and global
collaboration on multiple fronts.<br />
But the leadership triangle of
government, business and society is increasingly ineffective. We need to
rekindle the spirit of global cooperation and leadership that was
evident in dealing with past challenges.<br />
Simply put, our
challenge is to produce far more energy for a world with far more
people. At the same time, we need to reduce CO emissions and get smarter
about how we extract and use our resources. And we will need to do this
against a backdrop of almost constant volatility and change.<br />
A
big part of a broader global energy mix will be the rapidly expanding
contribution of renewable energy resources. We think up to 30% of the
world's energy mix could come from renewables by 2050. But that target
assumes a very rapid growth rate; it will require significant effort and
sustained investment.<br />
Even if the world gets there, all forms of energy will need to be developed to meet future demand.<br />
Among
fossil fuels, natural gas will play an increasingly important role. It
is the cleanest-burning and the best ally of wind and solar power, which
need a highly flexible backup supply when the wind stops or the sun
goes down.<br />
Gas also is an ideal alternative to coal-fired power
plants, emitting 50% to 70% less CO. Replacing coal with gas to produce
electricity is, by far, the fastest and least expensive way for the
world to reduce CO emissions in the energy sector. Gas is affordable,
its resource base is vast and widely dispersed, and it can help
diversify energy supplies all of which enhances energy security.<br />
At
Shell, we spend considerable time and energy to identify and understand
how emerging trends will affect the global energy system. Recently, we
have focused on understanding the ways in which water, energy and food
are interconnected. Water is used to produce nearly all forms of energy,
energy is used to move and treat water, and energy and water are used
to produce food.<br />
There's a growing awareness that the path to a
more sustainable energy future will require society to balance the needs
of these systems by thoroughly understanding how they relate to one
another. At the same time, we cannot lose sight of carbon emissions and
other resource stresses.<br />
So Shell has brought together
specialists from various fields to map the links and better understand
the trade-offs. It is a tremendous undertaking.<br />
Our early
findings have identified two important factors that could help avoid a
future water-energy-food crisis: “smart” urban development and
greenhouse gas regulation and pricing.<br />
Cities today hold half of
the world's population and generate up to 80% of its CO emissions. The
proportion of people in cities is expected to grow to 75% by 2050. So,
the way in which our cities develop will greatly affect energy and water
demand.<br />
“Smart” cities technology holds tremendous opportunity,
through more efficient public transport, energy-efficient buildings and
designs that utilise waste heat and efficient energy sources. By
investing heavily to upgrade our infrastructure, we can offset some of
the growth in energy demand while creating new jobs.<br />
Fortunately, we already have the tools and knowledge to address this issue.<br />
What's still urgently needed is a global consensus on greenhouse gas regulation and pricing.<br />
Shell
already factors in a price for CO when making major investment
decisions. If a project does not make sense when that price is factored
in, it does not move forward. But widespread adoption of the most
cost-effective CO reduction measures will only occur when governments
promote frameworks to price CO.<br />
This brings us back to the need for leadership and global collaboration.<br />
The
absence of coherent energy policies among some of our largest
energy-consuming nations and regions is a direct result of the lack of
leadership and, more broadly, a troubling lack of basic trust between
business, government and society.<br />
Government has an important
role in setting the rules, in spurring investment in new technologies
that may not see a payoff for many years, such as carbon capture and
storage. Rather than choose winners and losers, government should set
the end goals, then provide appropriate incentives that let the market
determine the most effective solutions.<br />
With effective rules in
place, business can harness its immense resource of human talent and
creativity to apply innovation, technology and investment capital to the
challenge.<br />
I'm optimistic we will address this challenge,
despite the difficulties. Past examples of global leadership should give
us hope. The coordinated response to the 2008 financial crisis is one.
The international agreement to ban substances blamed for depleting the
ozone layer is another.<br />
Today we have a major opportunity to
address this challenge in a way that avoids unnecessary pain in the
future. Let's not waste it.<br />
<i> Peter Voser is Royal Dutch Shell chief executive officer.</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6442837275291011401.post-80755595319335262762011-11-08T09:17:00.002+08:002011-11-08T09:33:58.824+08:00SEDA NEWS: FiT - Road to renewable???<b>Malaysia Aims to Kick Start Renewable Sector with New
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PUTRAJAYA, NOVEMBER 1 (The Recharge News) -- <b style="color: red;">A
new feed-in tariff (FIT) system due come into effect on 1 December will drive
the take-up of renewable energy in Malaysia,</b> and at the same time help the
country meet burgeoning energy demand, its energy minister says.</div>
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Dato Sri Peter Chin, minister for energy, green
technology and water resources, says Malaysia’s sophisticated FIT mechanism –
applying to biomass, biogas, small-scale hydro and solar – aims to reward
individuals, businesses and communities investing in renewable energy.</div>
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The tariff system will cover a range of quotas
for 2012 to 2014. From next year 282MW will be covered by the scheme; in 2013,
262MW will be covered and 2014’s quota will rise to 304MW.</div>
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Chin admits Malaysia has failed to get behind
renewable-energy generation over the past decade.</div>
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“In the ten years since the implementation of
[the Fifth Fuel Policy], we found out the high cost of generation which makes it
unattractive for utility companies to buy renewable energy from renewable energy
generators,” he tells the Clean Energy Expo conference in Singapore.</div>
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“Our subsidy on fossil fuels adds to the
problem because the utility companies will always favour the least cost option
in dispatching the power required,” he adds.</div>
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This has created an “uneven playing field” and
is reflected in the “dismal achievement” where by the end of 2010 only 63MW has
been successfully connected, which is only 18% of the 350MW target that was set
under the Ninth Malaysian Plan (2005-2010), he says.</div>
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“The time is right for the government o
consider renewable energy to play a significant role for future power
generation,” Chin says.</div>
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He says the government has also allocated 300m
ringgit ($96.4m) as the initial start for the Renewable Energy Fund.</div>
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“My ultimate hope is that Malaysia will become
one of the leaders within the ASEAN region with our systematic and structured
approach for renewable energy development in the country,” Chin says.</div>
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The country’s domestic electricity utility,
Tenaga Nasional Berhad, has forecast an increase in electricity growth of 6.5%
in 2011, versus 2010, driven by commercial and business customers.</div>
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The country’s power planning requires 10.8GW of
new generation by 2020 and at the same time about 7.7GW of existing generation
capacity will need to be retired. By 2020, total installed capacity is predicted
to increase by 16% from 2011 levels.</div>
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RE Quota
In many countries where the FiT system is implemented, caps on RE installed
capacities are highly discouraged as these caps limit RE growth and constrain
its impact. The avoidance of such caps is possible in countries where
electricity tariff is deregulated. However, in a regulated electricity market
such as in Malaysia, <b style="color: red;">the funding source for FiT is limited to a fixed percentage
imposed on the utility’s electricity revenue.</b> Therefore, caps are essential to
ensure that there will be adequate funds to make the FiT payments to RE
generators. Once the electricity market in Malaysia is deregulated, or when FiT
has been operating for a considerable period of time, then removal of the caps
may be possible.<br />
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Capping is achieved by putting a capacity limit or quota
for new feed-in approvals in respect of each renewable resource for 6-month
windows over the next 3 years. The reason for the 6-month window frame is to
limit the waiting period for the next available set of quotas to a maximum of 6
months.
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<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.50 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td>
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<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.50 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.50 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">3.00 </td></tr>
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<td align="left" class="text_table_black row-blue2">Non-individual (> 1MW)</td>
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<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">20.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">20.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">20.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">20.00 </td>
<td align="middle" class="text_table_black row-blue2">20.00 </td></tr>
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