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US heralds the demise of coal
The Obama administration’s proposed EPA rule to control greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants could go far in shutting down America’s era of coal-fired power generation – a result the head of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign believes will be achieved as soon as 2030. -
CEFC: Why it should seek to distort and disrupt
Most submissions on the CEFC call for a softly, softly approach to financing. But a leading Australian innovator says Australia’s push into clean energy risks being too timid and incremental, and we are now living in a world of exponential changes. PacHydro, meanwhile, suggests the energy market and the Energy White Paper wake up to climate change policies. -
Why generators are terrified of solar
And why Australia may end up as a nation of island grids. A new graph shows how solar PV is not just licking the cream off the profits of fossil fuel generators in Germany, it is eating the cake as well. And a graph to show that green energy incentives are costing you very little.
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