ABC NEWS The South Australian Government says it will increase its Renewable Energy Target (RET) and aim for 50 per cent of the state's power to be generated by renewables by…
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The renewable energy scheme has helped encourage more than one million Australian households to install solar panels on their roofs. Photograph: Alice Solar City/AAP Image by Oliver Millman The…
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Hazelwood coal mine is a major employer in Morwell, but also a source of pollution. Photo: Joe Armao What is coal? Formed from fossilised plant matter over millions of years,…
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by Anthony Vassallo The recent review of the Australian Renewable Energy Target has once again raised the issue of the “unreliability” of some renewable power sources such as wind…
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Mark Butler, Labor's climate change spokesman said the government had shattered the notion of bipartisanship over the renewable energy target. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen Hopes of a bipartisan accord to…
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By Giles Parkinson on 10 September 2014 Bernie Fraser, the chairman of the Climate Change Authority, has entered the fractious debate around renewable energy in Australia by suggesting that…
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Peter Hannam, Environment Editor Carbon emissions from the country's main electricity grid have risen since the end of the carbon tax by the largest amount in nearly eight years. Data…
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By Giles Parkinson on 2 September 2014 Today’s graph of the day shows the number of rooftop solar systems in south-east Queensland, including the capital Brisbane and the Gold Coast,…
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By Giles Parkinson on 2 September 2014 The firm hired by the Abbott government to conduct the modelling for its controversial review of the Renewable Energy Target has admitted it…
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by Greg Jericho Let’s not beat around the shrubbery: the review of the renewable energy target (RET) led by Dick Warburton was a sham designed from the very start to…
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