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How more – not less – green energy can cut consumer bills
New Zealand’s Meridian Energy says the costs of the LRET are minor, and would be easily outstripped by the benefits of lower wholesale prices, less gas, and more competition. And it says it wouldn’t need much market share to have a big impact on prices. -
Gunns: Collapse of a dinosaur a warning to old fossils
The collapse of Gunns holds important lessons for management and shareholders of all industries, but particularly miners and generators. The biggest one is that green business is the new market reality, and anyone betting on business as usual is wrong, and reckless. -
Pacific Islands look to first zero emissions cargo network
Replacing diesel on island grids with solar and other renewables is helping reduce massive fuel import bills. But replacing diesel fuel used in shipping is a much bigger challenge, which is why shipping, sailing and environmental groups are joining forces to try and create the first zero-emissions cargo network in the modern world. -
Have we pointed 2GW of solar PV in wrong direction?
Energy expert says best way to reduce costs of peak demand is to point rooftop PV to the west, instead of north, and design a tariff that encourages consumers to switch off their appliances and go to the cinema. That would make PV a competitor to transmission lines, so the networks probably won’t like it. -
Brown coal generators: Let’s stop renewables now
Hazelwood owner says it has nothing against wind farms – it even owns one – it just doesn’t want to see too many built. Ergon Energy says exceeding the 20 per cent renewable target is an ‘unnecessary luxury,’ presumably because the ice melt has slowed in Queensland.
