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Hydrogen: Fuel for Our Future?

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Hydrogen-powered cars like this one may be commonplace in the future.

Hydrogen Powered CarOn July 18, BP and GE announced plans to jointly develop up to 15 new hydrogen power plants for generating electricity over the coming decade. The hydrogen will be derived from fossil fuels, including coal and natural gas. While the plants will emit greenhouse gases, the companies will employ carbon capture technologies they claim will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by 90 percent. Although the operations will not be pollution-free, some environmentalists welcome the companies’ investment in hydrogen technology as a key development in bringing about a hydrogen economy. Tiếp tục đọc “Hydrogen: Fuel for Our Future?” →

Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis

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Lazard’s latest annual Levelized Cost of Energy Analysis (LCOE 11.0) shows a continued decline in the cost of generating electricity from alternative energy technologies, especially utility-scale solar and wind.
            

Additional highlights:              

    • As LCOE values for alternative energy technologies continue to decline, in some scenarios the full-lifecycle costs of building and operating renewables-based projects have dropped below the operating costs alone of conventional generation technologies such as coal or nuclear. This is expected to lead to ongoing and significant deployment of alternative energy capacity.
    • Global costs of generating electricity from alternative energy technologies continue to decline. For example, the levelized cost of energy for both utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) and onshore wind technologies are down approximately 6% from last year.

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Chính thức dừng dự án nhà máy điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận

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(NLĐO)- Nguyên nhân dừng dự án điện hạt nhân tại Ninh Thuận là do tình hình kinh tế – xã hội của nước ta đã thay đổi so với thời điểm quyết định chủ trương dự án năm 2009.

Bộ trưởng Mai Tiến Dũng chủ trì cuộc họp báo chuyên đề về điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận

Bộ trưởng Mai Tiến Dũng chủ trì cuộc họp báo chuyên đề về điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận

Bộ trưởng, Chủ nhiệm Văn phòng Chính phủ Mai Tiến Dũng tại buổi họp báo chuyên đề về điện hạt nhân chiều ngày 22-11 cho hay Quốc hội vừa biểu quyết thông qua Nghị quyết về việc dừng dự án điện hạt nhân tại Ninh Thuận. Tiếp tục đọc “Chính thức dừng dự án nhà máy điện hạt nhân Ninh Thuận” →

Vietnam scraps nuclear power plans as costs double

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reneweconomy_Vietnam has become the latest country to dump its nuclear power plans – and to rule nuclear out of its energy mix for the foreseeable future – after the the country’s National Assembly voted on Thursday to abandon plans to build two new plants in partnership with Russia and Japan.

The Vietnamese government said in a statement that the decision, made in a closed session of parliament, was taken for economic reasons, after the price for the proposed plants – approved in 2009 – had doubled to nearly 400 trillion dong, or $US18 billion.

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How to Transform the Global Energy Economy

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Q&A with Jennifer Layke: How to Transform the Global Energy Economy

by Jennifer Layke Jennifer Layke and Hayden Higgins – September 29, 2016
Legga village solar electrified by woman barefoot
Expanding access while reducing emissions is the central item on the global energy agenda. Photo by Knut-Erik Helle/Flickr.

WRI_Today’s energy economy faces competing challenges: We don’t just need more energy, we need energy that is clean enough to protect our climate, and cheap enough to power growing economies that are trying to lift millions out of poverty. Tiếp tục đọc “How to Transform the Global Energy Economy” →

Energy Relations between Russia and China: Playing Chess with the Dragon

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Oxfordenergy – Russia’s relationship with China has a long and complex history, catalysed by the lengthy border between the two countries, the complementarity of their economies and the ambitions of both to be seen as key global geo-political actors. Following periods of tension and friendship in the Soviet era, when the two communist states often struggled to find a mutual understanding, the post-Soviet era has seen a more complicated relationship develop based as much on economic reality as political ideology. In particular the export and import of energy has been at the heart of these developments. Russia’s huge resources combined with its Tiếp tục đọc “Energy Relations between Russia and China: Playing Chess with the Dragon” →

Vietnam approves $60 mln wind power project

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By Dam Tuan   July 28, 2016 | 02:35 pm GMT+7

A Singaporean company plans to tap the potential for wind power in southern Vietnam.

e.vnexpress – Southeast Asia’s leading renewable energy developer, The Blue Circle, has been awarded an Investment Certificate from Vietnamese authorities for a 40 Megawatt (MW) Dam Nai wind project worth $60 million in the southern province of Ninh Thuan.

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Vietnam Starts 120-Megawatt Wind Farm in Central Highlands

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March 13, 2015 — 6:44 AM WET

bloomberg_Vietnam began constructing a 120-megawatt wind farm with a total investment of 6 trillion dong ($281 million) in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak.
HBRE Wind Power Solution Co. will build the project in three phases through 2020, Chairman Ho Ta Tin said on Friday. The Ho Chi Minh City-based company is expected to be able to produce 400 million kilowatt-hour a year, equal to the demand of 200,000 households.
General Electric Co. will provide the project’s 60 turbines, Tin said on March 13. The first phase, which uses 14 two-megawatt turbines, would start generating electricity next year. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam Starts 120-Megawatt Wind Farm in Central Highlands” →

Why green growth is the key to Southeast Asia’s future

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By Vaidehi Shah

NCCS – The “grow now, clean up later” approach which has dominated economic development for the past century just isn’t working anymore as multiple environmental crises prove. Green growth may be a better way forward for Southeast Asia and the world.

Solar panels on Sumba Island, Indonesia. Over 8.1 million people are now working in renewable energy worldwide. Image: Asian Development Bank, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Multiple environmental crises facing the planet today such as climate change and dwindling resources send a clear message to the global community: “Business-as-usual” ways of production and consumption are no longer acceptable. Tiếp tục đọc “Why green growth is the key to Southeast Asia’s future” →

Cogeneration & Trigeneration – How to Produce Energy Efficiently

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A practical Guide for Experts in Emerging and Developing Economies
Energy efficiency is an increasingly important contributor to climate change mitigation while at the same time reducing the cost of energy as well as presenting an opportunity for technological innovation. Cogeneration (or ‘cogen’ for short) is in many cases one of the low hanging fruits of energy efficiency, and also has benefits on the electricity supply side. Cogeneration – the combined production of heat and power (also known as CHP) – encompasses all concepts and technologies by which heat and power are jointly generated in one unit and used by the same consumer, with the option of excess energy being fed into the public grid. The high levels of efficiency achieved in this process result from using waste heat as a co-product of electricity generation. Taking this one step further to include the generation of cooling energy from waste heat is called trigeneration (or ‘trigen’ for short) or combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP).

Energy and Air Pollution 2016 – World Energy Outlook Special Report

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World Energy Outlook: Released on 27 June 2016

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‌‌• Around 6.5 million premature deaths each year can be attributed to air pollution
• Energy production and use are by far the largest man-made sources of air pollutants
• Technologies to tackle air pollution are well known

Clean air is vital for good health. Yet despite growing recognition of this imperative, the problem of air pollution is far from solved in many countries, and the global health impacts risk intensifying in the decades to come.

The scale of the public health crisis caused by air pollution and the importance of the energy sector to its resolution are the reasons why the IEA is focusing on this critical topic for the first time.

Based on new data for pollutant emissions in 2015 and projections to 2040, this special report, the latest in the World Energy Outlook series, provides a global outlook for energy and air pollution as well as detailed profiles of key countries and regions: the United States, Mexico, the European Union, China, India, Southeast Asia and Africa.

In a Clean Air Scenario, the report proposes a pragmatic and attainable strategy to reconcile the world’s energy requirements with its need for cleaner air. Alongside the multiple benefits to human health, this strategy shows that resolving the world’s air pollution problem can go hand-in-hand with progress towards other environmental and development goals.

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Power to change the world – Communique – Waterloo Global Science Initiative

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Full report – Power to change the world – Communique Waterloo Global Science Initiative

We are living in a moment of great economic and social opportunity. Emerging technological, social and  business innovations mean that it is now possible for more than 2 billion people to gain access to the energy  resources that will radically transform their well-being through improvements in education, business, agriculture, healthcare and other spheres.

Although there are opportunities in opening access to many forms of energy, it is access to electricity that will  bring the most substantive change to the largest number of people. The application of increasingly low-cost,  modular renewable energy technologies to this emerging market also offers an opportunity to mitigate the  effects of climate change and enable energy-poor communities to become hubs of transformative leadership in  the global shift towards decarbonization. Tiếp tục đọc “Power to change the world – Communique – Waterloo Global Science Initiative” →

Output difficulties shut down multi-million dollar ethanol factories (Vietnam)

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17:55 | 06/04/2016

Oversupply and high manufacturing costs, as well as a chronic lack of state support are the major reasons behind the closing of ethanol factories in general and PetroVietnam factories in particular, according to newswire Tuoitre.

VIR – As of now, PetroVietnam’s ethanol factories in the northern province of Phu Tho and the southern province of Binh Phuoc have stopped operations and the fate of the bio-ethanol Dung Quat factory, will be decided in the coming shareholders’ meeting. Tiếp tục đọc “Output difficulties shut down multi-million dollar ethanol factories (Vietnam)” →