Daily update: Abbott’s emissions bluff steering Australia into $100bn carbon hole
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Abbott steering Australia into $100bn carbon hole; Networks fret over threat of mass defections; Greens target Vic’s dirtiest coal plants; CEC gives concessions in hope of sealing RET deal by Xmas; Macquarie fund takes stake in China’s Jinko Solar; Carbon times are changing, are utilities keeping up?; New life for artificial leaf?; UNSW solar engineer marries under 7.5kw pergola; Netherlands wind farm to power new Google data centre; Purple wind turbines; and are Australian and US emissions targets the same?
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UN takes aim at Australia for veering off carbon targets after dumping carbon price. Meanwhile, it releases updated global carbon budget, as more research suggests that Australia will head for $100 billion carbon hole if it is to use Direct Action to match international efforts.
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Networks push case for tariff changes, arguing that houses with rooftop solar getting generous “cross subsidies” from non solar users, and suggesting that cost of going off-grid is more than 5 times the cost of staying. But what if they are wrong?
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Victorian Greens pledge to shut down Victoria’s dirtiest coal power plants as soon as next year, if they win the balance of power in next week’s election.
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CEC cuts deal with aluminium industry in hope of policy certainty by Xmas. And Ross Garnaut says renewables – not coal – key to Australia’s prosperity.
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Macquarie Group infrastructure fund joins two others to take major stake in project development business of leading Chinese solar module maker JinkoSolar.
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How are Australia’s big electricity utilities’ reacting to an increasingly carbon constrained economy? Confusing picture or rational response?
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Research from around the world is bringing artificial photosynthesis – the conversion of sunlight into fuel rather than electricity – closer to reality.
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A UNSW graduate solar engineer has used her father’s 15 metre long PV installation as pergola in her country Victoria wedding.
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Google signs deal to power its Netherlands data centre with 100% renewables, including complete output of local wind farm currently under construction.
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Research finds coloured wind turbines, as opposed to white or grey, would prevent wildlife injuries and death. We can already hear the anti-wind cries…
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A true ‘apples to apples’ comparison of Australia’s emissions target and that just announced by the US doesn’t quite reflect the Coalition’s claims.
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