Browsing: Renewables, low emissions

• Victoria to complete licence overhaul, expands online information on contaminated sites
  
• Enterprise bargaining shouldn't exclude green matters: Bandt
  
• WA landowner fails in wind turbine challenge

Those who argue the renewable energy target can be abolished once a carbon price is in place are consigning Australia to a nuclear future, Clean Energy Council CEO Matthew Warren said today, while also calling for a depoliticised approach to spending permit revenue.

• IT moves help Macquarie Group meet carbon commitments
  
• Murray Goulburn strategy a model for climate adaptation action: AiGroup
  
• Innovation laggard: energy industry spends 'about 1%' of turnover on R&D
  
• Nominations sought for WA waste awards

• Council consent for new Coles complex conditional on 50% renewables
  
• Climate advocacy fund withdraws shareholder resolution
  
• Victorian levy funds must be spent on waste programs, Ai Group says
  
• IEA reveals Australia's dismal public spending on energy efficiency

• Government delays green tax breaks scheme
  
• Expect 'modest' abatement from forests and soils, CSIRO tells Senate
  
• NZ wind farm decision-makers obliged to consider 'national interest'
  
• Don't scapegoat renewables, Climate Institute says
  
• Major emitters to meet next week

The poorly-designed NSW Solar Bonus scheme kicked the Federal renewable energy scheme into a costly overdrive, while granting RET exemptions to large emitters has also boosted household and small business costs, says the Climate Institute.

NSW's utility price regulator today criticised Federal RET rules that favour small PV systems in a report that concludes "green schemes" will singlehandedly push up the state's retail power prices by 6% in 2011-12, making them the second most significant factor driving electricity bill increases

• ACCC starts contempt of court proceedings over renewable certificates
  
• 'No evidence' warranting cuts deeper than 5%, AIGN tells Gillard
  
• Name change for Carbon Trust

Victoria's former Labor Government set its renewable energy targets without assessing their feasibility, a Howard Government decision helped doom its efforts to meet them and it extended the deadline for its main renewables target by six years 'primarily' to assuage coal-fired generators, says the state's Auditor-General.

• Ferguson flags $100 million for emerging renewables
  
• City of Sydney abandons trigeneration tender process for direct talks
  
• Abattoir wins almost $1 million in last round of climate grant scheme
  
• Home solar tariffs favour wealthy, don't deliver peak demand benefits, AGL says