Climate | EcoGeneration

Greenbacks for greenery … venture capital hears the call for clean energy

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 17, 2020 | Australia, Climate, Electric Vehicles, For Consumers, Funding, International, International, Policy, PPAs, Projects, Pumped hydro, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, VPPs, Waste-to-energy, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

Climate-conscious venture capitalists are once again placing big bets on clean technology. Can they make money and protect the planet?

Replace coal and gas exports with clean energy? It can be done … if the grid is 2,000% renewables: All-Energy

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 8, 2020 | Australia, Climate, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar, Solar Projects, Storage, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

It may be possible, if the technology is affordable and agreements are in place, to switch from dirty energy exports to clean ones … if Australia generates more than 20 times the electricity it does today.

Covid-19 a sign of things to come if we fail on climate

by EcoGen Editor | Sep 7, 2020 | Australia, Climate, Comment, Emissions Reduction Fund, Policy, Projects, Renewables, Solar Projects, State Policy, Wind Projects | 0 |

While the impacts of covid-19 have been devastating, they will be immaterial compared to climate change unless we take meaningful action, writes Clean Energy Council CEO Kane Thornton.

Carbon capture and storage is a big step back to the dirty dark age: IEEFA

by EcoGen Editor | May 20, 2020 | Australia, Climate, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

The government’s Australian Climate Solutions Fund offers little hope for financial industry backers of a Paris aligned economic recovery, says the IEEFA’s Tim Buckley.

Coal finance is heading to its logical terminal conclusion: IEEFA

by EcoGen Editor | Apr 22, 2020 | Climate, Funding, International, Policy, Renewables | 0 |

Governments, corporates and financial institutions are accelerating their coal restriction policies in 2020, writes Tim Buckley.

Australia could fall apart under climate change. But there’s a way to avoid it: Garnaut

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 6, 2019 | Australia, Climate, Comment, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewables | 0 |

If Australia is to realise its immense opportunity in a zero-carbon world, it will need a different policy framework.

Can California switch to 100% clean energy? Hell yeah!

by EcoGen Editor | Feb 26, 2019 | Climate, Comment, Funding, Policy, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables | 0 |

Environmentalist, entrepreneur, investor — Danny Kennedy is an energy source in human form. So what does the California-based Australian think of the Golden State’s bid to flip to renewables?

The sleeper hit in Labor’s energy policy

by EcoGen Editor | Dec 17, 2018 | Australia, Climate, Comment, Company Updates, Efficiency, Emissions Reduction Fund, Funding, Policy, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Solar, State Policy | 0 |

As a thought experiment, imagine you are serving as shadow energy spokesperson in the Federal...

The people have spoken…and it’s time to start listening

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 30, 2018 | Australia, Bioenergy, Climate, Comment, Commercial, Company Updates, Efficiency, Electric Vehicles, Emissions Reduction Fund, For Consumers, For Installers, Funding, Geothermal, International, Ocean Power, Policy, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Residential, Solar, Solar, Solar Projects, State Policy, Storage, Uncategorised, Wind, Wind Projects | 0 |

The Victorian election result should be a warning to all political parties that voters expect a...

The long goodbye to coal has begun

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 14, 2018 | Australia, Climate, Comment, Company Updates, Efficiency, For Consumers, Funding, International, Policy, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Solar, State Policy | 0 |

Thermal coal is fated for long-term structural decline and energy-related carbon dioxide emissions...

State governments can transform Australia’s energy policy from major fail to reliable success

by EcoGen Editor | Nov 7, 2018 | Australia, Climate, Comment, Company Updates, Efficiency, For Consumers, Policy, Projects, Renewable Energy Target, Renewables, Solar, State Policy | 0 |

Energy policy in Australia is a major failure. The federal government has been unable to forge an...

Cutting the cost of energy

by EcoGen Editor | Oct 17, 2018 | Climate, Comment, Efficiency, For Consumers | 0 |

Energy savings schemes have delivered an average annual reduction of total electricity consumption of almost 4% where they operate in Vic, NSW,SA and ACT. Combined, they are saving more than 5GWh of electricity annually, writes Hamish McGovern.