The Commonwealth Bank and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation have teamed up to offer businesses lower cost finance for energy efficient plant and equipment.
The director of a WA food company says installing solar allowed his business to move two night shifts to daylight hours, and prompted it to look for new ways to use energy efficiently.
After using NABERS to demonstrate the energy efficiency of its data centres, Fujitsu now plans to quantify for each customer the financial benefits, says the company's sustainability manager Lee Stewart.
A Melbourne City-led alliance has won draft ACCC approval for a renewables bulk-buy, seven councils are jointly tackling energy efficiency and the Municipal Association of Victoria is working with VicRoads on a plan to upgrade lights on major roads.
One of Australia's biggest health-care providers has won approval to earn carbon credits, as it aims to cut total energy use by up to 40% by the end of 2018.
Proposed changes to Victoria's VEET scheme, announced today, would allow businesses to subsidise complex energy efficiency projects and would also reward building upgrades.
The Federal Government has told an international forum its annual spending on clean energy R&D will rise to $208 million by 2020, while a 24-economy alliance has launched new programs on energy efficiency and renewables.