Tag Renewable Energy
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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.
8 days ago | 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.’
21 days ago | 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 | Giles Parkinson | 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 | Giles Parkinson | 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 | Giles Parkinson | 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 -
Americans still buy gas-guzzlers
Jeff Mason, RAW President Barack Obama, facing Republican criticism over the state of the economy, has done a Detroit victory lap to showcase the car companies his administration helped save. But the industry has not turned out the way he... Read More →
January 22, 2016 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Euphoria over landmark Paris climate deal
Le Bourget [AFP] Cheering envoys from 195 nations have approved a historic accord in Paris to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius ended... Read More →
December 14, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Sunshine state to become our solar state?
The state of Queensland appears ready to embark on what could be one of the most radical transformations of its electricity network ever undertaken – even by standards of ambitious mandates in places such as California, Germany and Denmark.
November 27, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Local energy retailer needs support
Helena Norberg-Hodge, Mullumbimby. While governments around the world sign on to ‘free’ trade treaties that give corporations the right to sue them if they allow social or environmental needs to get in the way of their profits, more and more communities are taking power into their own hands.
November 16, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Is this the beginning of the end for fossil fuel?
Panic selling swept major global stock-markets on Tuesday in what could be a foretaste of things to come, as investors suddenly woke up to the fact that the game has changed. Fossil fuels and their associated investments are in decline, and the world is heading rapidly towards new and cleaner technologies.
October 2, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 1 -
Solar to help power remote north Qld mine
Australia's first commercial diesel displacement solar plant has successfully started supplying electricity for a remote far north Queensland mine.
September 29, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Tweed joins regional push for bioenergy production
Tweed shire is getting behind a cutting-edge regional project to convert organic trade, household an industry waste into a renewable-energy source.
September 22, 2015 | Luis Feliu | 0 -
Turnbull channels Abbott’s target as he attack’s Labor’s renewables
Plus ça change. The more it changes, the more it stays the same. Despite Malcolm Turnbull’s tantalising sales pitch ahead of the leadership spill earlier this week, there was no real expectation for quick policy change.
September 21, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0 -
Eight things Turnbull should do on climate, renewables
Malcolm Turnbull’s dramatic replacement of Tony Abbott as prime minister of Australia has raised hopes of a change in direction for the Coalition government, particularly on climate change and renewable energy, and thereby the shape of its economic future.
September 18, 2015 | Echonetdaily | 0
