A new report has described 2015 as a “challenging year for the renewable energy sector” in Australia, but believes “the year ended with much optimism.” Published by Australia’s Clean Energy Council (CEC), the Clean Energy Australia Report 2015 provides a comprehensive overview of Australia’s renewable energy and energy efficiency sectors, including … [continued]
The Australian Government has conceded to a compromised Renewable Energy Target deal with its opposition, bringing the nearly two-year political debate to an anticlimactic close with a 33,000 GWh by 2020 target and no formal two-year review. The bipartisan deal was sealed Monday, after the ruling Coalition agreed to drop plans … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy The new Labor government in Queensland has confirmed its commitment to generating 50 per cent of its electricity needs from renewable energy by 2030, and to ensure that one million of its homes had rooftop solar by 2020. The plans were outlined in Labor’s pre-election policy release, … [continued]
Last Friday a provisional deal was struck between Australia’s Government and the Opposition Party that will cut the country’s 2020 Renewable Energy Target from 41,000GWh to 33,000GWh. The cut is not as bad as it could have been, but there’s very little good news to be had other than that, with … [continued]
A new report conducted by the Australian National University and commissioned by WWF-Australia concludes that Australia could undertake an ambitious emissions reduction program and even reach 100% renewables and zero net emissions by 2050, all at a relatively low cost. Pressure On Australia’s Political Failures The report reviews several major … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Spain’s Banco Santander, the biggest bank in Europe by market value and once the world’s largest financier of renewable energy projects, has decided to sell its only Australian renewable energy investment and quit the country’s renewables market, due to Australia’s policy uncertainty around the renewable energy … [continued]
That the environment and energy are big political issues in Australia at the moment will be unsurprising to most. The Victorian State election this past weekend saw a change in government, away from the Liberal Party and their backward policies. And according to a new poll commissioned by WWF, an … [continued]
A new report published by the Australian Clean Energy Council has found that slashing the Renewable Energy Target as proposed by the current liberal government would “smash” the value of clean energy projects that are already operating, and even expose the government to “massive compensation claims” by those developers affected. … [continued]
It will come as no surprise to most to read that the Australian renewable energy industry is in hot water — and like the unlucky frog from urban legends, the water is steadily boiling the industry alive. Mixed metaphors aside, this week has seen several indicators to back up 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]
