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2013/07/03

As request for energy increases in Asia Pacific, governments across the region intensify efforts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and instead are searching for renewable energy sources.

Part the renewable energy sources, solar power seems to be the brightest star at the three-day Clean Energy Expo Asia 2012 in Bangkok.

“Solar power is the next of energy. The sun shines each day from morning till night and I have been developing solar power in Thailand for the last three years,” said Wandee Khunchornyakong, chairwoman and CEO of SPCG Public Company Limited.

She explained that the company has focused on building 6 megawatt solar power plants in the north and east of Thailand which has abundant sunshine.

“Asia is rapidly establishing robust energy policies to drive the next of clean energy in the region,” said Michael Dreyer, Vice Presi-dent of Koelnmesse Asia Pacific, one of the world’s major trade equitable companies.

“As Asia’s energy request persists, there is an urgent need for industry to take active steps to accelerate the evolution of clean energy innovation to ensure its place as a viable alternative energy source,” he added.

Dreyer said that staging the expo in Thailand would bring other participants closer to the opportunities in these markets.

ADB director general regional and sustainable development department, S. Chander, said in his opening speech at the expo on Wednesday that clean energy technology could pave the way to low carbon production.

“It enables Asia to decouple economic increase from increased greenhouse gas emissions,” he said.

Before this year, the Pew Charitable Trust revealed that the clean energy market in Asia and Oceania had US$75 billion invested in it.

The expo features nearly 100 exhibitors from 16 nations, inclunding Indonesia, and ends on Friday.

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