As I sit at my desk in front of my computer, the sun is shining and my pool looks very inviting outside my office window, but I am driven to write. Australia gets a lot of bad press internationally about our love for fossil fuels and how we are dragging … [continued]
I’m not sure if we are traversing a multiverse or working in a Bizarro world, but just reading the take The Australian has put on Angus Taylor’s coal keeper proposal makes my head spin. It is like two different worlds — one ruled by the laws of physics and economics … [continued]
This is the kind of boom we want to read about. A boom in jobs, but not only jobs, careers, and not only careers, but careers that mean preservation of resources and societal sustainability. Everywhere, the lookout for sustainable careers is merging with sustainability ecologically.
Solar investment in Australia is shrinking due in large part to ridiculous federal policies that make renewable energy projects too risky. The Smart Energy Council thinks it’s time to reverse those wrongheaded policies.
The Tesla Powerpack installation in South Australia is poised to generate enough income in its first year of operation to pay for one third of its cost. That that, anti-renewable ideologues.
Solar and wind power are slashing the cost of electricity in Australia and driving coal and natural gas out of business. That’s a good thing for the country and an even better thing for the planet.
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Wind energy in Australia has enjoyed its biggest ever month in May, producing nearly a quarter more electricity than its previous record month, and overtaking hydro to provide 8.5 per cent of electricity demand in the country’s main grid. The record output came, coincidentally, in the … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. By Sophie Vorrath. The South Australian government has given approval for the development of a $1.5 billion, 197 turbine wind farm on the Yorke Peninsula in the state’s west. Managed by Senvion Australia for the Suzlon Group, the 600MW Ceres Project – which would be the … [continued]
According to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), all new electricity generation capacity in Australia will be from renewable energy. It will mostly be from wind energy, while 13% of that is expected to be from large-scale solar PV, and 3% from biomass. After years of hearing very little about … [continued]
Originally posted on Renew Economy. By Sophie Vorrath. In our Graph of the Day on Monday, we looked again at the record-breaking week of August 10-18 for wind energy in Australia. As it turns out, the entire month of August 2013 was a record breaker, all round – for the National Electricity … [continued]
