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A123 Systems: Going to Zero?
There was so much enthusiasm when high-performance battery manufacturer A123 Systems (NASDAQ:AONE) came on the scene. The promise of an advanced battery manufacturing facility pumping out batteries for next-generation electric cars while providing jobs for US workers was a bold one, and one that a lot of folks cheered. But certain realities rapidly turned that [...]
Recent India Power Blackout Reinforces Need for Solar
600 million people without power – and those were the ones expecting to have power. I’m not going to join the chorus of critical voices reacting to two of the world’s largest power black-outs this week in India. While surely there is ample blame to go around, it’s not really clear what happened. It could [...]
Solar War Update: China Fights Back
Germany’s SolarWorld lauched a U.S. anti-dumping trade claim against China in solar PV modules through SolarWorld America in October of last year. The firm was well within its corporate responsibility in its actions. SolarWorld has pressured for an anti-China trade claim to be made in Europe as well. But trade claims and anti-dumping tariffs don’t [...]
South Korea Passes Cap-And-Trade Legislation
South Korea passed legislation to begin a national cap-and-trade program with a near unanimous vote of 148-0, with three abstentions. The fourth largest economy in Asia, South Korea is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions among industrialized countries, doubling since 1990. It is the 8th biggest source of GHG emissions in the [...]
Greenhouse Emissions Capped for Largest Companies in South Korea
South Korean lawmakers passed legislation to create a cap-and-trade program in 2015, and voted to begin capping greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of its largest companies this year, reports Bloomberg. A special committee of the National Assembly voted in favor of the legislation against industry opposition. The bill now goes through its final steps – through [...]
Top 10 Ways South Korea Embraces Cleantech
For a long time, South Korea has been completely dependent upon imported energy resources to meet its large energy consumption. Prior to the use of renewable energy technologies, South Korea was the fifth largest importer of oil. Since the mid-1990s, however, that reliance on oil has steadily decreased. And although oil does still provide a [...]
South Korea Becoming A Contender In Solar
Although Japan currently remains Asia’s reigning champion of CleanTechnology, over the past few years South Korea has been quietlyshaping itself up to be a contender in a race whose social, economicand environmental benefits have spurred countries like India and Chinato recently pledge and invest vast sums of money into developingrenewable energy projects, many of which [...]