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Victoria aims for 40% renewables by 2025, to add 5,400MW wind and solar
Victorian govt to use reverse auctions to reach 40% renewable energy by 2025, underlining the policy divide between Labor and conservative governments. The target will require 5,400MW of new wind and solar capacity to be built in less than a decade.12 -
West Australia flags end of centralised energy network
Western Australia finds itself at the cutting edge of energy market reform, and its main grid operator is imagining a future totally different from the past – where many towns and cities look after all or most of their energy needs with renewable-based microgrids. -
Australia’s big fail on climate and energy policies
Australia is going backwards in climate and energy policies and is being accused of deliberately throttling the renewable energy industry, and of gilding the lily on its Direct Action achievements. Meanwhile, pressure mounts for global climate targets to be even more ambitious. -
10 things we learned … about Abbott’s contempt for climate
In the Orwellian world of the Abbott government, coal is good, wind is bad; a cut in renewables is not a cut but an increase; and spending 1/4 of its carbon budget on just 15% of its target is not so much a failure as a resounding success and a blueprint for the world to follow. -
Tony Abbott’s Christmas hit list on climate and clean energy
Conservative governments used the last week of parliament to renew their attack on the carbon price, clean energy and climate bodies. They also pushed through approvals for coal mines, brown coal exports, dredging the barrier reef, and delisting the Murray Basin. But not all went to plan. -
Obama steps it up on climate – takes on US coal, power plants
US President Barack Obama says it’s time to by-pass ‘flat-earthers’ and act on the moral obligation to curb carbon pollution. Unable to introduce a carbon price, his plan instead invokes direct action – but with real bite; doubling down on coal and power plant emissions and doubling up on efficiency and renewable generation on public lands.
