Find below the most interesting news from the last months from South East Asia and the Pacific on “Policy Developments”, “Project Developments “, “Access to Finance”, “Energy for All” and “Information and Tools”:
Policy Developments:

June Special Forum Energy Ministers Meeting on Pacific energy [...]

Find below the most interesting news from the last months from South East Asia and the Pacific on “Policy Developments”, “Project Developments “, “Access to finance” and “Information and Tools”:
Policy Developments

Australian Government requested REEEP to develop an end-use energy efficiency strategy for the Pacific region
REEEP has developed a draft [...]

Cyprus has moved closer to reaching the European Union’s renewable energy target by 2020 (20% energy from renewable sources), and to reaching its specific target of supplying 13 %  from such sources.  The first windfarm in Cypress, near Paphos, owned by the local DK Wind Supply Ltd.,  is the largest of its kind in the [...]

Some 365 wind turbines will be installed in desert around Lake Turkana in northern Kenya to create the biggest wind farm in Africa. Once completed in 2012, the farm will have a capacity of 300 megawatts. The £533 million (USD895 million) project, backed by the African Development Bank, will have a quarter of Kenya’s current installed power and one of the highest proportions of wind energy to be fed in a national grid anywhere in the world. The German consortium working on the project has leased 66,000 hectares of the world’s largest permanent desert lake. Extreme temperatures generate extreme winds and this is the reason wind farms have great potential in Africa.

One of the most ambigious renewable energy projects has had a sound start in Munich this week: Destertec. Within the next three years there are to be concrete plans for  solar thermal plants in North Africa, the initiators, twelve major companies, said. Whilst there is still technical research to be done, the main objective now [...]

Wind power now seems to be the best choice for many countries in an effort to switch to renewable energy sources. Wind power is attractive in both economic as well as environmental regards. It delivers not only economic development benefits, but it’s also a safe source for the China’s (and the rest of the world’s) [...]

There’s a new roadmap that looks interesting for helping China improve energy efficiency in buildings.  According to UNEP buildings apparently account for 42% of Chinese energy consumption, and China already has done a lot of legislating on energy efficiency — current building codes demand that new residential buildings are 50% more efficient that those built [...]

Australia’s Government announced plans to build what it says is the world’s largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts (that would be enough to power about 800,000 homes, based on Bloomberg calculations). Australians Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the government will invest A$1.4 billion ($1 billion) with industry in this project which [...]

It’s done  )  We re-launched reegle today with its brandnew design and the new clean energy map. I will keep my blog-post short and simple as there is so much to do at the moment (everyone who ever organised a launch of a product knows what I am talking about )
What’s new [...]

Many developing countries, such as India, are hungry for energy and cannot get enough of it, because they are cultivating and creating industries. But efforts over the last 20 years to build new electricity generating capacity to supply this demand have not gone according to plan, and India for some years has been searching for [...]