Tag Renewable Energy
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Green light for $1 billion Queensland wind farm
The Palaszczuk government has approved a $1 billion wind farm, with up to 195 turbines to go up in central Queensland.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Record year for solar and renewables but not fast enough
A record amount of solar capacity and renewable power was installed across the world in 2017 – as the cost of both wind and solar became competitive with fossil fuels – but it still is not enough, a major new report has found.
21 days ago | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Solar garden feasibility to be explored in Byron Shire
Byron Shire is one of five areas in Australia that has been selected to take part in a feasibility study to see if it could be a suitable location for a solar garden.
27 days ago | Aslan Shand | 0 -
SA’s promising renewable-energy future hanging by a thread
Just one day out from the South Australia state poll, the result is in the balance, and so too is the fate of South Australia’s status as a world leader in renewable energy. It’s an outcome that could have a huge bearing on the pace of the energy transition for the whole of the country.
March 16, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Solar employs over 10,000 Australians
Some 16,042 rooftop PVA systems were installed over January, supporting 5,337 full-time jobs, according to the latest Renewable Energy Index. And another 5,456 jobs are set to be created by large-scale solar farms under construction.
February 27, 2018 | Echonetdaily | 3 -
Resisting renewables like resisting the internet: Zibelman
Australian Energy Market Operator CEO Audrey Zibelman says Australia will be a world leader in the transition to a smarter and cheaper renewables based-grid, and trying to resist that change is like trying to stop the internet.
December 11, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Tweed goes for Green power to save money, cut emissions
An ambitious renewable-energy plan by Tweed Shire Council to produce 25 per cent of its own power from solar in under five years and half of it with storage by 2025 is expected to save up to $1.5 million per year in ratepayer funds.
November 3, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Rooftop solar ‘saving billions’ for all Australians
A major new study has underlined the crucial role played by rooftop solar in moderating energy prices: without it, the study says, the aggregate cost of electricity would have been several billion dollars higher over the past year.
October 17, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Policy remains a mess till coalition’s climate goat is sacrificed
It is now abundantly clear what Malcolm Turnbull signed up for when he vowed to leave Tony Abbott’s climate and clean energy policies untouched when negotiating his ascension to the prime minister’s office in 2015: it was for a complete and utter repudiation of everything about climate he once said he stood for.
October 13, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Lismore among top 10 for rooftop solar in Australia
More than 11,000 households and small businesses in Lismore have made the switch to renewable energy, making it the postcode with tenth most solar panels in the country.
September 19, 2017 | Chris Dobney | 2 -
Byron ‘eager to get cracking’ on renewables, forum hears
The keenly interested audience of more than 80 gathered at the Mullum Civic Centre on Thursday night were not disappointed by the promise of ‘a night of action on renewables.’
September 6, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
COAG ministers ready for energy stoush
CANBERRA [AAP] The nation’s energy ministers are readying up for a stoush over a clean energy target, after some states threatened to go it alone if the federal government continues to dally. The state and territory ministers meeting in Brisbane on... Read More →
July 14, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Clean energy target would drop power bills
Katina Curtis CANBERRA [AAP] Power bills would fall significantly over the next decade if the federal government adopted a clean energy target. And they would fall even further if a more aggressive target was adopted, a new analysis has found.... Read More →
July 10, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Iowa backlash over Trump wind energy barb
IOWA CITY [AP] US president Donald Trump’s putdown of wind energy at an Iowa rally has been denounced across the state, which has been a national leader in wind generation. Trump was talking up his support for coal during his... Read More →
June 23, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Swiss voters embrace renewable energy
Michael Shields & John Miller ZURICH [RAW] Swiss voters have backed the government’s plan to provide billions of dollars in subsidies for renewable energy, ban new nuclear plants and help bail out struggling utilities in a binding referendum. Provisional final... Read More →
May 22, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Crossbenchers wary of Snowy expansion
CANBERRA [AAP] Key crossbench senators are skeptical about the Turnbull government’s $2 billion plan to expand the iconic Snowy Hydro scheme. The prime minister was out inspecting the project on Thursday, which could be in line for a 50 per... Read More →
March 17, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Transition to renewables inevitable
Robin Harrison, Binna Burra. The climate change debate, important to most people aspiring to a sustainable future, has reached the pinnacle of achievement for our adversarial democracy; total ideological log-jam.
March 3, 2017 | The Echo | 0 -
State Libs back national energy targets
MELBOURNE [AAP & other sources] The Liberal parties in three Labor-held states have backed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s call for a single national approach for renewable energy targets as he pushes forward for Canberra to take control on the issue.... Read More →
February 13, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
WA Labor pushes for renewables in coal town Collie
With the future of some of its coal-fired generators in doubt, the town of Collie in Western Australia may be revitalised with new solar, biomass and pumped hydro facilities.
January 29, 2017 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Keep the lights on, minister tells states
Melbourne [AAP] Federal energy minister Josh Frydenberg is urging his state counterparts to come together to ‘keep the lights on’ as they gather for an emergency meeting in Melbourne. Uniform renewable energy targets and a formal review of the nation’s... Read More →
October 7, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Blackout used by friends of the coal industry to bash renewables
The Coalition government launched a ferocious attack against wind and solar energy after the major South Australian blackout, even though energy minister Josh Frydenberg and the grid operators admit that the source of energy had nothing to do with catastrophic outage.
September 30, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 2 -
Sunshine state to become the solar state
Brisbane [AAP] The sunshine state will soon become the solar state, with the looming construction of six projects capable of generating enough energy for 120,000 homes. The large-scale solar generation projects will deliver $500 million of investment and create more... Read More →
September 9, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
‘Base load’ power: a myth used to defend fossil-fuel industry
Last week, leading lights of the global fossil power industry gathered at a conference in Houston, Texas, for CERA, known in the sector as the ‘Davos of Energy’. They reportedly got the shock of their professional careers.
March 4, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
World moves quickly to renewables as solar costs plunge
The world is moving more quickly towards renewable energy than people thought even a year ago, and Australia can expect an imminent boom in large-scale solar investment, according to Grant King, the CEO of Australian energy utility Origin Energy.
February 23, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Wind and solar replace coal in South Australia
South Australia is about to go coal-free, and by the end of the year it will be supplying half of its energy needs from wind and solar. Depending on what you think of renewable energy, this is either another big step into the future, or the beginning of the end of the world as we know it.
February 22, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 2
