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Renewable energy is ready to supply all of Australias electricity
2014-07-21 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: In a recent article on The Conversation, University of Melbourne Professor Emeritus Frank Larkins wrote that Australias targets to increase renewable energy will make electricity more expensive, thanks to problems with consistency and storage. But Professor Larkins is several years behind developments in renewable energy and its integration into electricity grids. In fact, we already have technically feasible scenarios to run the Australian electricity industry on 100% renewable energy -- without...
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Global renewable energy investment up 33% second quarter of 2014
2014-07-18 15:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Global investment in renewable energy increased 33% in the second quarter of 2014, thanks largely to the record-breaking $3.8 billion (2.2bn) secured by an offshore wind farm in the North Sea, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Investment totalled $63.6 billion (37.2bn) over the quarter, also up 9% from the same period in 2013. The biggest deal in the history of the offshore wind sector certainly helped. The 600 megawatt (MW) Gemini wind farm, which will be built in Dutch waters 85km...
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Solar experts say Australian renewable energy investment being stifled by Government policy
2014-07-07 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: One of the world's most advanced solar power companies has shelved plans to develop electricity plants for the public market in Australia because of the Government's apparent hostility to renewable energy. Solar Reserve, based in Santa Monica, California, has pioneered a technology that combines mass-scale solar power generation with storage, allowing energy from the sun to be "time-shifted" and used 24 hours a day. Other markets around the world are advancing. Australia is going to get left...
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EDF Renewable Energy Signs Power Purchase Agreement With Great Plains Energy For 150-MW Slate Creek Wind Project
2014-07-07 11:34:19| pollutiononline Home Page
EDF Renewable Energy (EDF RE) recently announced the company has entered into a 20-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Great Plains Energy, parent company of Midwestern utilities, Kansas City Power & Light and KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations, for the 150-megawatt (MW) Slate Creek Wind Project in Kansas
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Much-needed $800bn renewable energy investment can come from fossil fuel subsidies
2014-07-03 16:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Much of the hundreds of billions of dollars worth of renewable energy investment that is needed to prevent the worst effects of climate change could come from the substantial subsidies given to fossil fuels, a new report has found. In a new study published in the journal Climate Change Economics, researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) attempt to put a price tag on efforts to limit the global temperature rise to 2C. "Many countries say that they`re...
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