Jumping off the tram or bus to roam city streets, drink in the architecture, or just arrive at work in an urban area would be so much better if air quality were fresh and fine. Melbourne, Australia, considers this very thing and intends to leave behind those suffocating, smelly fossil fuels… … [continued]
Australia achieved 3 GW or 3,000 MW of wind power generation for the first time, surpassing a record set in December, 2014.
Eight days after BC cities called on the government to put the Trans Mountain Pipeline project on hold, there was an oil spill in Vancouver.
A fully grid-connected, first of its kind concentrated solar photovoltaic (CSPV) power tower was unveiled on Friday in Newbridge, Victoria, Australia, which some believe could reduce the cost of solar-based electricity around the world. The Central receiver CPV pilot project, developed by RayGen Resources, serves to “demonstrate the world’s first pre-commercial … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Households in Australia installed a rooftop solar system every 2.8 minutes in 2014 – almost the same rate as in the US, with barely 1/15 of the population. According to data compiled by Green Energy Markets, and based around the issue of renewable energy certificates, a … [continued]
Editor’s Note: This article is one submission in a live Masdar blogging contest (find out the entry requirements here). Very simply, the focus of the contest submissions is to: “Describe your city in 2030: what will occur due to changes in energy, transportation and water technologies, and how will they transform how you live?” We are … [continued]
Amidst national policies in Australia that seem to be growing ever further from reality, the City of Melbourne and several other local councils and businesses have made a stand to attempt to divest themselves from Victoria’s coal-fuelled energy grid. Led by Lord Mayor Robert Doyle of the City of Melbourne, the group … [continued]
Much has been made of Australian Prime Minister’s Tony Abbott’s backward (read: downright insane) environmental and energy policies, without looking further into the role that the individual Australian States are playing. A new report from the Australian Climate Council attempts to rectify this, by providing the latest research on which … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The Victorian Labor Party has sought to underline its renewable energy credentials by vowing to help the town of Newstead, near Bendigo, to become 100 per cent renewable energy by 2017, and become the state’s first “solar town”. The commitment comes a few days after party … [continued]
RenewEconomy. It seems that it is not just towns in New South Wales that are looking to meet all their own electricity needs with renewable energy – a small township in Victoria is also looking to become 100% renewable within a decade. The small town of Yackandandah, about 120kms south … [continued]
