The NSW Government won't proceed with a controversial plan to slash the tariff paid to households already signed up to its Solar Bonus scheme, Premier Barry O'Farrell announced today.
Coles says a landmark renewable energy condition imposed by Sunshine Coast Regional Council on a proposed new store is 'wholly unreasonable', while it also wants an energy efficiency condition deleted.
NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell and Energy Minister Chris Hartcher today said they would introduce special measures to assist any genuine hardship cases resulting from their changes to the state's Solar Bonus Scheme.
Global investments in renewable energy will range between $1,264 billion and $4,740 billion over the next decade, according to an international report that describes scenarios in which renewables share of energy demand grows to between 27% and 77% by 2050.
Arrangements that allow household solar PV systems to create renewable energy certificates at a favourable rate will end two years earlier than originally planned, under changes announced today by Climate Change Minister Greg Combet.