PowerTrends 2009 features e-vehicles, clean energy

MANILA, Philippines - The country’s largest event on renewable energy, PowerTrends 2009, will be held on Sept. 9-11, 2009, at the World Trade Center Metro Manila.

PowerTrends 2009 is focused on the latest technology, products and services available to investors, funders, engineering and architecture professionals, and technology and equipment suppliers interested in energy projects that meet their criteria for economic demand, cost efficiency, environmental safety and high returns.

PowerTrends 2009 is held side by side with the business forum PowerTech 2009 (Sept. 9-10). Both are organized by Leverage International. Interested parties may contact the events secretariat at [email protected], fax 810-1594 or call 810-1389 or 818-6828.

These two events are expected to be visited by ministerial and private sector participants to the Ministerial Conference on Green Industry in Asia: Managing the Transition to Resource-Efficient and Low Carbon Industries by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

On display in PowerTrends 2009 are e-vehicles including, the e-Jeepney, an electric jeepney that seats l4 people; e-Quad, a vehicle designed similar to electric tricycle /tuktuk but with four wheels; e-bike, a bicycle with a small electric motor; and e-car, a small two-seater electric car.

The exhibition will feature also offerings of Alstom Philippines, subsidiary of the global Alstom group, for hydro and wind power.

Alstom’s range of hydropower products include turbines, generators, control systems and hydromechanical. With more than 400 gigawatts of turbines and generators, Alstom has the largest worldwide installed base accounting for 25 percent of the world’s hydro facilities.

Alstom’s wind power offerings allow its customers to manage wind farms as standard power plants. With its unique drive train concept and innovative features such as electrical pitch controls, Alstom brings a highly reliable and proven product range to the market.

The Renewable Energy Association of the Philippines pavilion will display different models and technologies of wind turbines including micro turbines, solar panels, pico-hydro, micro hydro, solar heat collector, solar-assisted air-conditioner, batteries, inverters, solar street lights, waste conversion to energy and solid waste to diesel (a very new technology).