Daily Update: Abbott reveals true colours on renewables, sides with ideologues

by Neville
5 September, 2014 General news0
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Daily Update: Abbott reveals true colours on renewables, sides with ideologues

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Abbott reveals true colours on renewables; Solar business restructuring for survival; WTF is going on team Australia?; China paves way for solar leasing; Clouds hang over Indian coal sector; ACT gives planning approval for 13MW solar project; Finally some light relief for the RET; The local and global impact of Tesla’s giga factory; Is US commerce Dep. protecting utilities from solar revolution?; Saudi Arabia chooses solar to jump on diesel-killer bandwagon; and Australia’s Zen gets $200K grant to advance energy storage.
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The Abbott government insists it is not “anti renewables.” But in trying to abolish ARENA, it has sided with the only two submissions (out of 131) supporting the idea – one from a fossil fuel vested interest and another from an ideological opponent.
Solar businesses in Australia are rapidly structuring – mostly around financing models with some interesting new players.
Australian renewable and climate change policy was cited as a model for the world. Now its trailing in the wake of the Asia-Pacific.
China has released new policies that will encourage leasing and a boom in distributed generation as an alternative to centralised plants.
This week the Indian court system handed down three landmark energy rulings, reaffirming one thing — it’s time to diversify away from coal.
ACT government gives planning approval for 13MW solar farm as part of its 90% renewable energy target by 2020.
The draft final report of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report has just been sent to government. Australia’s should read it. Carefully.
Tesla giga factory in Nevada will make it the epicenter of real-world energy storage work.
At the end of July, the US slapped new import duties on solar products from China coming on top of earlier “anti-dumping” levies.
Saudi Arabia accelerates efforts to deploy solar and reduce its reliance on expensive diesel – another sign of global push to renewables.
Adelaide-based ZEN Energy Systems gains state government grant to advance its energy storage commercialisation program.

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