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Australia's political freeze on renewables. Billions in renewable energy projects are ready to go, but uncertainty over policy is seeing investment stall. Uncertainty no excuse for procrastinating on climate change. New research reduces the range of uncertainty ...

This graph on the declining costs of solar power is another of Cleantechnica's excellent “cleantech snacks”. We've published many a graph showing the sharp fall in solar PV costs over the last four to five years (80 per cent by most calculations) but here is a ...

He said without legislation the government's mandate that ethanol make up six per cent of all petrol sold can't be met, and Manildra's Bomaderry plant will suffer as a result. "The Manildra plant actually made an investment based on legislation with passed ...

Urban Green Energy (UGE) recently unveiled its newest vertical-axis wind turbine, the VisionAIR, as part of an installation at the Beijing International Garden Expo. The company confirmed to Gizmag that the VisionAIR is replacing its former 4K turbine, last ...

Business interest in solar power is on the rise, according to figures provided to The Australian. According to the paper, solar power systems are being installed at triple the rate of last year, encouraged by falling panel prices and rising electricity prices.

“Wind power has been around since Don Quixote and it belongs in an industrial museum not in a modern economy. “For too much of the time, the wind just sucks subsidies when it should be turning turbines. “The 20% renewable energy target is unachievable ...

CAES storage helps solve the problem of intermittency in renewable energy generation. When the wind powers turbines, or the sun shines on a solar power plant, electricity is abundant and must be stored for later use. CAES works by using excess energy ...

A company looking to produce biofuel from algae has abandoned its pilot plant in Karratha, in the north-west of Western Australia, saying it's too expensive to continue research and development work in the region. Karratha, with its high temperatures and low ...

Snowtown is earning a new title, the Wind Farm Capital of Australia, as the $700 million Snowtown Wind Farm proceeds at full pace. Reliable wind and proximity to transmission lines make the site ideal, and Stage 1 opened in November 2008 with 48 turbines ...

The politics over renewable energy get bleaker by the moment. As the election date gets closer and a change of government grows more likely, the voices of the pro-coal and anti-renewable interests are becoming more strident and, it would seem, finding ...

Until now, wind power has been the leading low-carbon alternative to oil, coal and gas, outside large niche markets such as Germany, which has seen a huge ramp-up in installed solar. But that could change, with deep implications for the health of both ... Wind turbine manufacturers are targeting both incremental technology development in existing platforms as well as more fundamental advances, in particular towards bigger turbines for the offshore market

Mr Green said the existing solar feed-in tariff of 27 cents per kilowatt of energy should be guaranteed for existing solar customers for three years. Households who install solar panels after this year would receive a lower rate to be set by the independent ...

The application said the purpose of the proposed work was to explore, test and monitor the Taheke geothermal system to determine the lateral extent, size and development potential of the resource. Council staff would visit the site before deciding whether the ...

Australia's Renewable Energy Agency – the institution charged with giving a kick-start to emerging renewable energy technologies and supporting infrastructure – has had its overall funding cut by around 5 per cent and a further $370 million deferred to ...