The University of Glasgow in Scotland has taken a page from Stanford and other US colleges. It has become the first EU academic institution to divest fossil fuel holdings. On Wednesday, the university court voted to divest $29 million (£18 million) of investments in the fossil fuel industry and freeze new investments across … [continued]
China has announced it will reintroduce import tariffs of 6% a tonne on thermal coal used to generate electricity and a 3% a tonne on metallurgical coal used to smelt iron. The tariffs are not new but a return to those that were in place when China first began to … [continued]
RenewEconomy. The Australian government – and ministers Greg Hunt and Ian Macfarlane, in particular — like to tell everyone how much they support renewable energy. But they seem to be doing their level best to trash the industry in Australia. Key data released late last week underlines the disastrous state of the … [continued]
RenewEconomy. A new consortium hopes to become Australia’s first community owned retailer, with big plans to build, generate and sell renewable energy in the northern rivers region of NSW around Byron Bay and Lismore. Northern Rivers Energy, a company being formed by a consortium of “forward thinking citizens” in the … [continued]
Suggestions that the current Australian Renewable Energy Target of 41,000 GWh by 2020 is infeasible have been laughed off by global wind development company Windlab, who have released figures showing that not only is the target feasible, but could be met by existing approved wind energy that has simply yet … [continued]
The City of Nedlands in Perth, the capital of Western Australia, has voted to make it compulsory that all newly built homes and renovations build a minimum of 1.5 kW of renewable energy on-site generation capacity. The seemingly unprecedented move was put to the local government by Mayor Max Hipkins, and … [continued]
It will come as no surprise to regular readers of CleanTechnica that I am not a huge fan of the current Australian Liberal-Coalition Government and their recent decisions to scrap the carbon tax and the impending changes to the Renewable Energy Target suggested in a recent panel recommendation. Over the past … [continued]
RenewEconomy. Imagine a world in 2050. Everyone drives an (electric) car, homes have all the gadgets, appliances and nick-nacks. The public transport system is emissions free. Mining work and transport is electrified, and diesel is dumped. Electrification has taken place in much of the steel industry. And it is all … [continued]
RenewEconomy. By Giles Parkinson and Sophie Vorrath. The Labor government in South Australia has announced it will increase its renewable energy target to 50 per cent by 2025 – up from the 33 per cent target that it has already met, six years ahead of scheduled date of 2020. The … [continued]
RenewEconomy. Global investment bank Citigroup predicts that the annual installation rate for rooftop solar in Australia could rebound to more than 2.2GW a year by 2020, meaning a total capacity of 14GW of rooftop and utility scale solar by the end of the decade. In a surprisingly buoyant forecast, Citigroup … [continued]
