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Newman wipes climate and clean energy off Queensland map
Campbell Newman has confirmed the complete dismantling of the state’s climate change and clean energy initiatives – even winding down measures to address peak demand. But he has chosen to take a bite out of coal revenues. Is the party over for the thermal coal export industry?24 -
Why new solar tariffs could drive a man to diesel
A ‘solar squeeze’ is being applied by utilities on commercial customers who dare to reduce their consumption by installing their own solar panels. If this action continues unchecked, consumers will have no option but to turn to diesel and go off-grid. -
Snubbed on coal buyout, TRUenergy turns on LRET
Just days after having the buyout of its Yallourn coal-fired power station rejected, TRUenergy has called for the renewable energy target to be lowered. It wants to bring wind and solar industries to complete halt by 2016 to allow wholesale electricity costs to rise and more fossil fuel generation to be built. -
Will Canberra finally call time on the utilities’ snow job?
The cancellation of the contracts for closure scheme should be another wake-up call to Canberra that they have been duped by the electricity industry, as Garnaut had suggested. At least Alinta is now talking about the prospects of solar thermal to replace its coal plants. -
Solar PV industry licks its wounds as last tariff falls
As the Baillieu government brought down the curtain on the last major feed in tariff, solar companies reported they were awash in red ink. The industry, which now employs 15,000 people, is craving stability, and fair value for energy that householders produce, and export to the grid. They may not get it.
