Stock News 2011: AboitizPower reiterates need for flexible RE policies

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AboitizPower Corp. reiterated the need for more flexible policies that would help reduce the barriers that hinder the development of small as well as large-scale renewable energy plants.

“Requiring the same studies, permits and fees from a 1-megawatt (MW) renewable energy plant as a 50-MW will discourage the development of small-scale plants in favor of larger-scale plants, even if the potential capacity in the country for small plants exceed that of the larger plants,” company senior vice president Luis Miguel Aboitiz pointed out during his speech at the Renewable Energy Conference & Expo Manila 2010.

Aboitiz made the call as he shared insights on the policies that face companies in starting out greenfield projects in renewable energy.

AboitizPower, which currently represents one of the largest private renewable energy producers in the country, sponsored the event as part of its commitment to encourage both businesses and individuals to support energy solutions that will leave a lighter impact on Earth’s resources and promote the usage of cleaner and renewable energy.

http://www.mb.com.ph/node/300711/aboitizpower-reiterate

Stock News 2011: Chemrez awards 'green' invention

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Chemrez Technologies Inc., the country’s top producer of environment-friendly innovations, has given the Chemrez Green Chemistry Award to a fifteen-year-old student who designed a device which sequesters toxic gases emitted by motor vehicles.

Hailed by judges as a ‘green’ invention, Benedict Manwell R. Priela, a senior high school student of the Holy Infant Academy in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro, was awarded the Chemrez Green Chemistry Award (Student Category) in the NICE held recently at SM Cebu Trade Hall.

The invention was borne out of Priela’s distress over the hazardous black smoke belched by vehicles. This drove him to work on a school science project that addresses this widespread problem and for which he bagged a green chemistry award in the recently concluded National Invention Contests and Exhibits (NICE).

The young inventor designed a device which sequesters the toxic gases emitted by motor vehicles and named it the Vehicle Emission Trap or simply VET.

Results of emission tests conducted on vehicles with VET installed on them showed that carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, was reduced by 94% and carbon monoxide, a deadly gas, by 96 percent.

“I want to be a doctor,” Priela said when asked about what his future plan was, obviously wanting to follow the footsteps of his father who is a medical doctor himself.

The VET puts into practice what green chemistry is all about. It is the design of chemical products and/or chemical processes that reduce or eliminate the use or generation of substances, directly or as a by-product, that are hazardous to human health or the ecosphere.

http://www.mb.com.ph/node/299027/chemrez-award

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