Daily update: Fossil fuel follies: Massive subsidies underpin oil, coal exploration
Renew Economy editor@reneweconomy.com.au via mail7.atl111.rsgsv.net
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Fossil fuel follies; Rooftop solar now 13% of residential demand in SE Qld; Bugger Direct Action; Off-grid luxury; NSW-ACT renewable energy cluster gets ARENA backing; Rise of the LEDs; Talking with $1bn battery startup Alevo; Dyesol in planning phases of thin film products commercialization; Dutch gets solar cycling path; and A web vacuum could suck Co2 from your inbox.
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Subsidies for fossil fuel exploration in Australia reach $4 billion, and $100 billion in G20 countries, despite vows to phase them out. New report labels this a “double folly” because the new reserves are both uneconomic and unsustainable.
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Solar now accounts for 13 per cent of residential demand in south-east Queensland, as another 2,600 households sign up for solar.
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BZE initiative says households can use energy efficiency and rooftop solar to deliver higher carbon reductions than Australia’s current targets.
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NSW to extend state’s energy saving scheme out to 2025, expand it to include incentives to cut gas consumption, as well as electricity.
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Two new luxury eco-villas unveiled on SA’s Kangaroo Island have been taken off-grid, and will be powered by solar.
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ARENA backs initiative to develop renewable energy industry cluster in south-east NSW/ACT region, currently the only green spot in bleak Australian energy landscape.
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Once the stuff of electronics geeks rifling through circuit board component drawers at Radio Shack, LEDs are today the rising heroes of energy efficiency.
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Alevo will announce plans to transform the world of energy storage at a new 4 million sq. ft. manufacturing plant in Concord, North Carolina.
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Australia’s Dyesol in planning phases of the commercialisation of its solid-state DSC technology.
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A country that may have just passed the one gigawatt threshold for installed PV is now home to a new cycling path lined with solar panels.
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Electrolux unveils free web-based World Wide Vac, a tool to help people eliminate carbon emissions attributable to the junk clogging their email accounts.
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