Platinum Green Mark Award for Ocean Financial Centre [News]

Singapore’s green drive is reaching new heights. It now boasts of having the highest solar panels in Southeast Asia at the Ocean Financial Centre.

The 43-storey building is the first office development in Singapore to be awarded the Platinum Green Mark Award.

Nestled in the heart of Singapore’s financial district, the Ocean Financial Centre stands out with its sloping roof.

But it is what is on its roof that is getting the green thumb of approval.

At 245 metres above ground, the panels make up the highest solar installation in Southeast Asia.

The height makes the generation of clean energy more effective. Read more

SANYO Completes South East Asia’s Highest Solar Installation at Ocean Financial Centre [Press Release]

Singapore, 21st February, 2011 – SANYO Asia Pte Ltd. (SANYO) is pleased to announce its latest solar panel installation in Singapore that will be situated as high as 245m above ground. A global-leading innovator and manufacturer in environmental technology, SANYO will be carrying out Singapore’s unprecedented and South East Asia’s highest solar panel installation on the roof of 43-storey Ocean Financial Centre, adding yet another laurel to SANYO’s platter of outstanding innovations in the solar panel field.

Developed by Keppel Land Limited, Ocean Financial Centre has been awarded the Green Mark Platinum Award by the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore (BCA) and is a prime Grade A office development strategically located at the intersection of the Raffles Place and Marina Bay precincts of Singapore’s CBD. Read more

Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010

JFPS Group will hold the “Photovoltaic System & Grid Integration Forum 2010” on November 9-10,2010. This forum will have PV grid integration discussions on “Policy & Market Development” and “Technology R&D and Application”.

Expected 200+ Attendees will come from government officials, power groups, PV system integrators, PV cell and module manufacturers, PV products testing and certification service providers, PV components manufacturers and related PV materials and equipments manufacturers.

The forum will focus on:

• Discussion on grid integration of photovoltaic system and smart grid construction
• Unveiling & implementation of Chinese on-grid photovoltaic feed-in tariff
• Key grid integration technology in BIPV projects
• Analysis of China’s newest subsidy policy on grid integration of solar energy
• Difficulties in developing large scale grid-connected photovoltaic power plants in China

For more info, please visit www.pvgridintegration.com or email Fanny Wang at marketing@jfpsgroup.com.cn.

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

Venue: ISEAS Seminar Room II

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

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

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

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

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

For details and registration, visit the ISEAS website.

Source: ISEAS

Nanotechnology for Next Generation Solar Energy

Venue: Seminar Room II, ISEAS

Speaker: Mr Jon Brodd, Chairman and CEO, Cima NanoTech, Inc

This seminar discusses the use of nanotechnology and nano materials to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of photovoltaics. For details and registration, visit the ISEAS website.

Green Business Times Interview – Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd

There has been great interest in solar energy in Singapore over the past few years. To understand more about solar energy technologies, issues and trends, we have the privilege of interviewing Mr Christophe Inglin, Managing Director of Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd.

About Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd

Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd (Phoenix Solar) is the Singapore subsidiary of Germany-based Phoenix Solar AG. The company designs, engineers and installs solar photovoltaic power systems for grid-connected and off-grid applications. Since it started operations here in early 2007, Phoenix Solar has secured contracts for over 400kWp of PV systems in Singapore, Malaysia and China. Read more

Singapore’s Solar Challenge

Speaker: Mr Christophe Inglin, Managing Director, Phoenix Solar Pte Ltd

Venue: Seminar Room II, ISEAS

This seminar explores whether there is an alternative to Singapore’s reliance on imported oil and the possibility of solar energy in Singapore, including targets, quantities and timeline. Details and registration at the ISEAS website.

Asia’s Largest Solar Power Plant in South Korea

Conergy Korea announced yesterday an agreement for the extension of Asia’s largest solar power plant (currently 19.6 MWp) in SinAn, South Korea, to 24 MWp. The completed 24 MWp solar power plant will cover an area of 720,000 m2 (about 96 soccer fields) and produce 33,000 MWh annually. This energy is sufficient to supply 7,200 households with clean energy annually and will help South Korea reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 24,000 tons a year. Read more

A Guide to Clean Energy Initiatives and Funding by the Singapore Government

Singapore has identified the clean energy industry as a key growth area since Mar 2007. The clean energy industry is expected to “contribute S$1.7 billion to the GDP and create 7,000 jobs by 2015“. To support our vision of a Clean Energy Hub, there are several clean energy initiatives and funding by the government as shown in the list below:

1. Clean Energy Programme Office (CEPO)
2. Clean Energy Research and Testbedding Programme (CERT)
3. Clean Energy Research Programme (CERP)
4. Solar Capability Scheme (SCS)
5. Market Development Fund
6. Singapore Initiative in New Energy Technologies (SINERGY) Centre
7. Innovation for Environmental Sustainability (IES) Fund (related funding)
8. MND Research Fund for the Built Environment (related funding)

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