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Wind Energy Now Cheaper Than Fossil Fuel Power Plants in Australia
2013-02-07 17:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Unsubsidized wind power is now cheaper than electricity produced from new coal- and natural gas-fired power stations in Australia, according to an analysis by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The study said that electricity can be supplied from a new wind farm at a cost of 80 Australian dollars per megawatt hour, compared to 143 Australian dollars from a new coal plant and 116 Australian dollars from a new natural gas plant. Even without a recently imposed carbon price, wind energy is 14 percent cheaper...
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Better Place winding down ops in North America and Australia, to focus on Denmark and Israel
2013-02-07 12:30:36| Green Car Congress
Australia sport doping 'widespread'
2013-02-07 07:13:46| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
A year-long inquiry finds widespread use of banned drugs in Australian sport, with links to organised crime and possible match-fixing.
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Hydro Tasmania, Shenhua Clean Energy to build Musselroe Wind Farm in Australia
2013-02-07 01:00:00| Power Technology
Hydro Tasmania and China-based renewable energy firm Shenhua Clean Energy (SCE) have extended their partnership to include the $394m Musselroe Wind Farm, currently under construction in north-east Tasmania, Australia.
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Australia: Time for change: China flags peak in coal usage
2013-02-06 08:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Brisbane Times: China`s decade-long boom in coal-driven heavy industry is about to end as the leadership shifts priorities towards energy conservation, say officials and policy advisers. The advisers predict China`s coal consumption will peak at only a fraction above current levels after the State Council, or cabinet, last week set an ambitious new total energy use target for the five-year plan ending 2015. "Coal consumption will peak below 4 billion tonnes," Jiang Kejun, who led the modelling team that advised...
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