February 26, 2008 (The Australian) – A move to develop a national agenda to create a multi-billion-dollar industry producing liquid transport fuels from coal and gas will be launched today by the Rudd Government.
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will use a conference in Brisbane to set the scene for gas and coal offsetting Australia’s huge and growing [...]
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Australian industry looks to gas, coal for transport fuel
Posted in Australia, Coal, Diesel, Gas, Legislation, Transportation on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thirst for electricity threatens Australian targets
Posted in Australia, Carbon Credits, Carbon Offset, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Coal, Legislation, Renewable Energy on February 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 26, 2008 (Canberra Times) – Australia’s rapidly escalating electricity consumption remains the biggest risk to meeting its Kyoto treaty targets, a new Federal Government report warns. A Department of Climate Change analysis of national greenhouse emission trends estimates Australia’s emissions from electricity use will increase 59 per cent on 1990 levels by 2020.
Despite use [...]
Victoria to get solar power plant
Posted in Australia, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Solar on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 25, 2008 (The Age) – A project to build a solar power plant in Victoria with $79.5 million promised by the former Howard government has been launched by new Climate Change Minister Penny Wong. Despite the former Howard government committing the money to the project she was launching, Ms Wong attacked her predecessors, saying [...]
GreenAir, Carbon Broker, to Raise A$100 Million
Posted in Australia, Carbon Credits, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital on February 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
February 25, 2008 (Bloomberg) – GreenAir, a carbon credit dealer, is seeking to raise A$100 million ($92.4 million) ahead of plans for an initial public offering after the Australian government signed the Kyoto Protocol, the Australian Financial Review said. The Sydney-based company, established by former Westpac Banking Corp. executive Himanshu Dua, is trying to secure [...]
New South Wales deflects calls for solar subsidies
Posted in Australia, Clean Energy, Legislation, Solar on February 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 19, 2008 (Sydney Morning Herald)- The Sun King has had a vision, but the NSW Government has its own ideas. Zhengrong Shi, the Australian-trained solar energy scientist who has in seven years gone from an academic position at the University of NSW to become the richest person in mainland China, yesterday called on the [...]
Greens delighted electricity feed-in scheme becomes law (Australia)
Posted in Australia, Clean Energy, Legislation, Renewable Energy Power Purchase Agreement, Solar on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 14, 2008 (SA Parliament Release) – The SA Government’s solar panel ‘feed-in’ Bill has passed both Houses of Parliament tonight, with crucial Greens’ amendments. The Electricity (Feed-in Scheme – Residential Solar Systems) Amendment bill encourages the uptake of solar electricity by allowing residents to sell their solar electricity at a higher rate than they [...]
Asia’s tigers eye nuclear future
Posted in ADB, Australia, China, Clean Energy, Hydro, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Legislation, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Nuclear, Philippines, Singapore, Solar, Thailand, Vietnam on February 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
February 15, 2008 (Asia Times) – The 2005-07 spike in petroleum prices topping out at US$100 a barrel has prodded economic planners across the globe to reconsider their energy options in an age of growing concern over global warming and carbon emissions. The Southeast Asian economies, beneficiaries of an oil and gas export bonanza through [...]
3-Pronged Profits from China’s Worst Winter
Posted in Australia, China, Clean Energy, Cleantech venture capital, Climate Change, Coal, Renewable Energy, Solar, U.S. on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
February 10, 2008 (Seeking Alpha) – It was the worst winter in half a century in the Middle Kingdom, throwing China into a coal energy crisis and giving us several ways to play China’s power problems.
You probably saw the unbelievable photos like this one:
Those are some of the hundreds of thousands of travelers stuck at [...]
Origin partners with wind generation developers
Posted in Australia, Carbon Offset, Cleantech venture capital, Wind on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
January 22, 2008 (News.com.au) – Origin Energy has partnered with wind generation developers Epuron to develop 590 MegaWatt wind farm projects in New South Wales.
The fist project will be the construction of the 30 MW Cullerin Range wind farm in NSW, about 30 kilometres west if Gouldburn.Origin expects to start commissioning of the wind farm [...]
Macquarie hires head of renewables
Posted in Australia, China, Cleantech venture capital, India, Small-hydro, Wind on January 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
January 16, 2008 (FinanceAsia.com) – Macquarie Group has appointed Anton Rohner as head of renewables in Asia, with the aim of expanding its business in a region where the renewable energy market is valued at more than $20 billion.The bank projects the market will grow by 15% to 20% annually in the next five years. [...]
