Singapore Ministry and National Environment Agency Representatives Visit UC Davis
The UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center was honored by a visit from representatives of the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources and the National Environmental Agency of Singapore. Attending Ministry officials included Tan Yong Soon, Permanent Secretary; Philip Ong Wee Kiat, Director, Climate Change; Ng Chang Yue, Assistant Director, Climate Change. Agency officials included Joseph Hui Kim Sung, Director-General for Environmental Protection; A. Ram Bhaskar, Head of Energy Conservation in the Resource Conservation Department; and Tan Li Yen, Executive Engineer, Climate Change Unit. Also in attendance was Heng Jee See, Consul-General of the Republic of Singapore. Delegates were introduced to UC Davis faculty and staff working on programs to reduce energy consumption in lighting for buildings as well as learn about innovations in plug-in electric hybrid vehicles. UC Davis presenters included Alan Meier, Associate Director of the EEC; Billy Sanders, Interim Executive Director for the Energy Institute; Tom Turrentine and Dahlia Garas of the Plug-in Electric Hybrid Vehicle Research Center; and Konstantinos Papamichael, Associate Director for the California Lighting Technology Center (CLTC). Wes Morgan lead a tour of CLTC.