Clean Energy Finance Corporation given government guidelines, including expected rate of return and maximum yearly spend, on how to invest its $10bn.
As CEFC chair conducts interviews for the role of CEO of the $10bn authority, she says Australia struggles with concept of energy as scarce resource.
Study says CEFC will help deliver big solar boom and quadruple geothermal output by 2030 – but could do even better, at no extra cost.
CEFC says some loans and investments may not be recovered; key carbon appointments; Aust green investment dips; geothermal ups and downs.
Tabling of CEFC legislation raises concerns about RET role; UK energy plan to boost nuclear, wind; Windlab’s South Africa win; Dyesol buy-back; SEA CEO shift.
Clean Energy Finance Corporation passes through Senate and into law; standby devices costing UK £1.3bn a year; Vestas jumps on service contract.
In an interview shortly after the launch of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, the chair of the experts panel discusses the investment mandate, the potential to leverage $50 billion in private investment, the risk of failures, and opposition to the concept.
Business needs to know if emission reduction policies are part of a serious and enduring trend, or just a passing fad.
…and how to get a $1 trillion finance sector, used to shopping centres, car parks and coal mines, to invest in emerging clean energy technologies.
2012 will be a critical year for cleantech in Australia. Costs for many technologies are falling rapidly, but critical decisions will be made about renewable energy targets and support mechanisms. Here, the heads of Pacific Hydro, GE, Infigen Energy, Better Place, Origin, First Solar, Carnegie Wave, the Grattan Insitute, the CEC and the SEAA share their predictions.
The debate around the structure and the purpose of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation will be one of the most critical policy debates of 2012. We summarise some of the more important submissions. Meanwhile, concern about the ability to meet the RET may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
