haha, yep there’s really lil stuff posted regarding Singapore and wind energy but Chia2 information is really good and useful (: a round of applause for chia2! (: welll done ! ^-^
here’s what i found on the what Singapore has to offer regarding this area.
Basically in 2006,
“ Vestas Wind Systems, the world’s top wind turbine maker, plans to establish a research base in Singapore to meet Asia’s growing appetite for clean, cheap and inexhaustible energy supplies, an executive said in local media on Friday.
The Denmark-based company will invest up to 500 million Singapore dollars (322 million US dollars) over the next 10 years to set up the wind technology research and development centre, said Thorbjorn Rasmussen, Vestas Asia Pacific president. “ – from http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/energywatch/renewables/news/article_1206165.php/Denmark-based_firm_convinced_of_wind_energys_future_in_Asia
Hence, this shows about the wind technology research that would be on-going in Singapore in years to come. Hence this highlights a probability and possibility to which how wind energy would probably have a chance in the energy production in Singapore in the future with the technology aided by the research centre to look into this area.
And recently this year at around January 2008, from http://asiacleantech.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/siemens-to-set-up-wind-energy-centre-in-singapore/ which although is a wordpressjournal, but it gives an article from The Straits Time newspaper regarding how Siemens would be setting up a wind centre in Singapore. Here are snippets of the newspaper article:
” January 16, 2008 (Straits Times) – In the latest in a spate of alternative energy-related investments in Singapore by foreign companies, Siemens will open a new regional sales office to promote its wind energy technologies. The German industrial giant announced the new initiative at a conference as it kicked off its 100th anniversary celebrations at the Victoria Concert Hall yesterday. “
“The wind energy centre, which will be based at the Siemens Centre building in MacPherson Road, will initially have just a ‘handful of staff’, said Siemens country manager Hans-Dieter Bott. Siemens will ‘build it up over time’ and hire more staff as business grows, he added.
And he is confident it will grow as countries around the world look for new sources of energy to power their economies.
Globally, he said, the ‘booming’ market for wind energy has grown from a multimillion- euro market to a multibillion-euro one within a ’short time’.
And while the Republic itself is unlikely to be installing any wind generators, it is a ’strategic’ location that is well linked to both the key wind energy research centres in Denmark and regional wind energy markets such as Australia and South Korea.”
From the above, we can also see the possibilties and opportunities that would arise with the setting up of the wind centre in Singapore (where Siemens promote its wind technologies) . It mentions how Singapore is a ’strategic’ location that is well-linked to key wind research centres and regional wind energy market. Note that it mentions that Singapore is however probably unlikely to be installing wind generators.
From the above two sources, it mentions about companies to be setting up wind centres in Singapore, hence this gives a sort of probability and clues to which which way Singapore would be heading in the renewables with regards to the wind sector, which is in areas of research technology and possibly future energy production using wind energy (well, with the promoting of wind technologies, possibly). Although this would probably not happen in the near future, but it highlights the areas in which Singapore is progressing in the wind sector.
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