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Wind declared cheapest energy source in Denmark

Denmark continues to advance while Australia just keeps digging more disaster. >readmore> TckTckTck

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How rooftop solarPV keeps electricity $ down:

For Victoria, the real peak demand reached 10,465 MW, on 14 Jan 2014, which is slightly higher than the level reached back in in the lead up to Black Saturday in January 2009. “Solar PV’s contribution has been a lot … Continue reading

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Norway leads, Australia goes backwards

Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global, worth $750B, is investing in sustainable enterprise and renewables in developing countries. The government owns and operates most oil and gas industries, with minority of joint ventures, also hydro electric power, clean smelting of aluminium, even … Continue reading

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Climate Week NYC

Against backdrop of President Obama’s renewed climate commitment and imminent publication of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Climate Week NYC 2013 events will present new evidence of the security, leadership and economic opportunities in the Clean Revolution: a catalyst for … Continue reading

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Obama slams door shut on coal, and opens the gate for solar

….the coal industry responded to Obama’s new mechanism by immediately dropping their pretense that CCS was a viable, or even a nearly viable technology. >readmore> RenewEconomy

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Business vs. Business : The Next Climate Battle Ground

“Digital and information technology drove whole sectors out of business, renewable energy, electric cars and storage technologies will make the coal and oil industry obsolete by 2030. From the David vs. Goliath of the ‘economy vs environment’ debate, it will become ‘my economy … Continue reading

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Report: The more Carbon Emissions we cut, the Better for World Economy

From new AR5 report by IPCC – “By the end of the century, the global economy would be well over $100 trillion larger under the most ambitious policies to reduce carbon emissions, versus the business-as-usual scenario.” It must be that … Continue reading

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Wind supplied 47% of South Australia’s energy last week

Pity about VIC but great news for SA. >readmore> RenewEconomy

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WA solar shocker could be foretaste of an Abbott government

Conservative government in Western Australia has stunned solar households in the state and industry bodies after announcing that it would retrospectively slash the feed in tariff that it had introduced in 2010. >readmore> RenewEconomy

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Gottliebsen is wrong on renewables tax

As total consumption of electricity declines, big fossil fuelled power station corporates are doing their best to discredit renewables in any way they can. >readmore> ClimateSpectator

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