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UL (Underwriters Laboratories), a leading solar product safety testing and certification organization, said focusing on photovoltaic product reliability and durability would be the key to further develop Asia-Pacific’s booming green energy industry.

Major overseas solar cell manufacturers are marching into Japan, counting on growing demand for renewable energy.

Asia Pacific Fuel Cell Technologies (APFCT) has won a contract from the Taiwanese Bureau of Energy (BOE) to build a fleet of 80 fuel cell scooters for demonstration and validation of fuel cell technologies.

Clean energy project developers are set to benefit from the $2bn a year the Asian Development Bank will commit to the industry from 2013, as it announces it will invest $60m to set up three venture capital funds.

New site devoted to covering Asia’s fast-moving sustainable business development Hong Kong. A new Internet portal, aimed at acting as a primary source for executives looking for news and views on the burgeoning sustainable business sector in the world’s fastest growing economic region, was launched today at www.CleanBiz.asia.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. said Wednesday it will start tie-up talks with Taiwan’s Auria Solar Co., as the Japanese firm considers outsourcing some of its domestic solar cell production.

Taiwan Semiconductor Mfg. Co. will outsource the assembly of solar photovoltaic cells into modules to Centrosolar AG of Germany, starting from the July-September quarter, TSMC officials said.