VIASPACE Press Release

VIASPACE GREEN ENERGY INC. APPROVED FOR LISTING ON OTC BULLETIN BOARD

01/19/2010

Common Shares to Trade under Stock symbol VGREF

Irvine, CA- January 19, 2010-VIASPACE Inc. (OTCBB: VSPC), a clean energy company growing Giant King^TM Grass as a low-carbon, renewable energy crop, today announced that its majority-owned subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc. (VGE) has been approved for listing on the OTC Bulletin Board. The shares of VGE common stock are expected to trade under the stock symbol VGREF. 

On January 14, 2010, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) approved VGE's application for quotation on the OTC Bulletin Board. VGE's market maker will file a priced quotation with FINRA, and trading of VGE shares is expected to begin shortly.

VGE's S-1 filing and registration as a separately reporting public company was declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on December 31, 2009. The filing is available at http://www.sec.gov/ under VIASPACE Green Energy.

About VIASPACE Inc.

VIASPACE is a clean energy company providing products and technology for renewable and alternative energy that reduce or eliminate dependence on fossil and high-pollutant energy sources. Through its majority-owned subsidiary VIASPACE Green Energy Inc., the Company grows Giant King Grass as a low carbon fuel for electricity generating power plants and as a feedstock for cellulosic biofuels.  For more information, please see http://www.viaspace.com/ or contact Dr. Jan Vandersande, Director of Communications, at 800-517-8050 or [email protected].

Safe Harbor Statement:  Information in this news release includes forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements relate to future events or future performance and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Such factors  include, without limitation, risks outlined in our periodic filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, including Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008, as well as general economic and business conditions; the ability to acquire and develop specific products and technologies; changes in consumer and business demand for the Company's products; competition from larger companies; changes in demand for alternative and clean energy; risks associated with international transactions; risks related to technological change; and other factors over which VIASPACE has little or no control.