Let’s not kid ourselves — we all saw this coming. Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott has reportedly asked the head of the Renewable Energy Target review to investigate abolishing the RET altogether, a process that has sidelined the Environment Minister Greg Hunt, and left renewable energy companies, fossil-fuel generators, and investor groups … [continued]
RenewEconomy. Queensland businesses are being hit with daily service charges of more than $500 a day on their electricity bills, in a move the solar industry says is designed to kill the roll-out of commercial-scale rooftop solar across the state. The charges were quietly unveiled by the Queensland Competition Authority … [continued]
Since 1998 there have been 49 court cases in five countries that tested the evidence for and against wind farm health impacts. All but one agreed that wind farms don’t make people sick. The Energy and Policy Institute just published a full report of my research into court cases in the USA, Canada, the British … [continued]
RenewEconomy By Sophie Vorrath Relying on gas-fired electricity generation “as a serious option” for reducing greenhouse emissions and cleaning up Australia’s power sector could cost up to 40 per cent more than a shift to renewables, and leave Australian households $500 a year worse off, a new report has found. The … [continued]
The Chinese capital of Beijing has been making a lot of noise of late with regards to fighting their well-publicized pollution levels. In the past week alone, Chinese state media outlet Xinhua has revealed that the country will ban coal by 2020 in six inner-city Beijing districts; that China will ban the … [continued]
RenewEconomy We’ve mentioned this before, but one of the striking patterns of behaviour in the energy industry over the last decade has been the ability of the “established” energy experts to completely underestimate the growth of renewable energy – and to overplay the credentials of fossil fuels. As we have seen … [continued]
RenewEconomy South Australia’s wind farms produced enough electricity to meet a record 43 per cent of the state’s power needs during July, and on occasions during the month provided all the state’s electricity needs. The output was boosted by the addition of the 275MW Snowtown II wind farm earlier in … [continued]
Fotowatio Renewable Ventures’ new solar pv project in New South Wales will feature the more efficient single-axis tracking mechanism.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott initiated a review of the country’s Renewable Energy Target (RET) less than six-months into holding office. Months later, and Australians are waiting with baited breath for former Reserve Bank board member, and arguable climate-skeptic, Dick Warburton and his committee to hand down their recommendations in … [continued]
RenewEconomy US-based Sungevity has hired the founder and former head of upstart energy retailer Australia Power & Gas as it seeks to become the dominant solar player in the Australian market, and ultimately take on the country’s biggest electricity retailers. The hiring of James Myatt as its new CEO in … [continued]
