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Daily update: Community electricity retailer to take on Australia’s big three
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Plan to create Australia’s first community-owned energy retailer underway in northern NSW; IMF calls for higher taxes on fossil fuels; AGL project development team folds; Queenslanders look to renewables as new ‘norm’; is Australia destined to be a carbon banana republic?; how wind, wave and solar could power California; 3 White House charts we need to see; Arizona’s public service turns hand to solar; and why the Energiewende’s opponents are fearful it will work.
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A NSW consortium has revealed that its plan to create Australia’s first community-owned energy retailer are underway, in what could be the first attempt to challenge the dominance of the incumbent retailers with a completely new concept in energy delivery.
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IMF report calls for energy taxes to be raised to reflect environmental and health impact, singles out coal as ‘about the dirtiest of all fuels.’
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AGL Energy downsizes project development team and absorbs it into another department – another sign the outlook for renewable energy in Australia is poor.
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Queenslanders say they want renewable energy to become the norm. The Newman government responds by suggesting they subscribe to think tanks.
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The idea of tackling Australia’s carbon pollution is sound. But at tax payer expense? Coming from a Liberal Party? That’s as bent as a …banana.
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Updated: Shoalhaven community energy group offers 6.5% return in 99kW solar system at NSW bowling club. Construction starts next week.
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New study shows California could convert to an all-renewable energy infrastructure that is both technically and economically feasible.
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A new White House report explains why Obama appears to be acting on the issue of climate change with a sense of urgency: “delay is costly”.
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After a long fight with the solar industry, APS now wants to get into the solar business itself. Industry reactions are mixed.
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IER says angst is a main driver behind the Energiewende, which will fail to reduce emissions without shale gas, especially without nuclear.
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