Our solar energy behind the clouds as India and China commit to targets
November 16, 2009 by green team
Filed under Green Reporter
One question that some of us always ask is – how come we don’t have array after array of solar panels on our amazingly uniform HDB rooftops?
We import 100% of our fuel for electricity after all, so surely the incentive is there to be at least self-sufficient for power? We did barrage Marina Bay to help reduce our water purchasing from Malaysia didn’t we?
Apparently, them panels are still too expensive, and we do live in a country where everything has to make economic sense before they’re implemented.
In an almost absurd situation, the government is aiming to make the country a clean-energy hub – we will have the world’s largest solar panel factory plant (built by Norway’s REC) in 2015. But until there are better incentives to place these panels on our – albeit shared – roofs, almost every solar panel manufactured here will be exported. [Link]
No, it will be a completely absurd situation until we take the plunge and set clear renewable energy targets.
Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) — India is targeting generation of 20,000 megawatts of solar power by 2022, joining China as the two Asian nations that resist emission caps draft plans to boost renewable energy before next month’s global climate change talks.
