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AGL’s Fraser: We haven’t changed our stripes
The head of AGL Energy defends purchase of Loy Yang A, dismissing talk he is stuck between a brown rock and a green place. He says he remains a strong advocate of renewables and a carbon price, and comments on his rivals’ attacks on the RET, solar, and the lure of brown coal.0 -
Let it flow: Can venture capital break our cleantech bottleneck?
The manager of Australia’s largest renewable energy venture capital fund is poised to announce its first investments, hoping to break the massive hourglass effect between Australia’s R&D and commercialisation. But will the biggest VC opportunities lie in generation technologies, or those that reduce costs for the consumer market? -
South Africa shows Australia how to do green energy
South Africa’s latest tender for renewable projects has attracted $3.5 billion of investment, lower costs, cutting edge technologies, and a bunch of leading international developers that have all but given up on Australia. Will the lessons ever be learned? -
Fear and loathing as utilities grasp impact of solar PV
The evidence is mounting that the rapid deployment of solar PV and other distributed generation poses major challenges to the business models of generators and network operators. Will the market and pricing regulators resist their attempts to find a new way of gold-plating their businesses? -
Five things we learned this week …..
Australia is far from having the highest carbon price, but will there be an international market for it to trade in; solar energy is actually cheap; the cost of wind is coming down; the cost of nuclear is going up; but all of that won’t halt the nonsense, or the clean energy culture wars. -
Solar PV – it’s cheaper than you think
It’s time to drop the idea that solar energy is expensive. A new report says Solar PV is already cost competitive with fossil fuels, including in Australia, but metrics such as ‘grid parity’ have only served to mislead and confuse customers, politicians, and even the energy industry itself.
