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NSW Government want family to live in new hi-tech green home in Newington
The Daily Telegraph
9/02/2010 12:00:00 AM
FREE to a good family: a brand new hi-tech green home complete with its own power generating sources, electric car, state-of-the-art TV - and even a kitchen worm farm.   It sounds too good to be true but that's the deal being offered by the State Government.     ...more
Australia blown away on renewable energy
Sydney Morning Herald
3/02/2010 12:00:00 AM
RENEWABLE energy is the world's fastest-growing power source. It is already generating baseload electricity at utility scales. Large solar thermal plants with heat storage can dispatch power whether or not the sun is shining, and make handsome profits during demand peaks. Wind power is being installed at scales that dwarf Australian grid requirements. These and other clean-energy technologies are replacing coal on modern energy grids. While Australia continues to throw money at 19th century technologies, Spain, China, the US and others are charging ahead with zero-emissions power generation, and creating export markets as they go. ...more
Millions of trees to sway Australian voters
The Daily Telegraph
3/02/2010 12:00:00 AM
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd is facing his strongest challenge since the 2007 election after Tony Abbott produced a climate change policy backed by a united Liberal Party.   The Opposition Leader promised to match the Government's carbon pollution reduction targets and timetables without forcing up prices for food and electricity or creating a multi-billion dollar carbon "market".   ...more
Victorians could see 35 per cent rise
Herald Sun
2/02/2010 12:00:00 AM
VICTORIANS are set to be punished with 35 per cent electricity price rises if they use power on weekdays instead of late at night or on weekends. Stay-at-home mums with babies, young children and pensioners are expected to be hit hardest by new "time of use" tariffs, to be introduced from May 3.   ...more
Abbott reveals $3.2bn 'climate incentives' plan
Sydney Morning Herald
2/02/2010 12:00:00 AM
Tony Abbott has pledged to install 100,000 solar panels on Australian rooftops every year as part of a "simpler, cheaper'' climate-change policy if the Coalition wins power. And a Coalition government would spend $3.2 billion of taxpayers' money over four years on incentive payments to industry to reduce carbon emissions.   ...more
We're a wasteful bunch but green with energy
WA Today
29/01/2010 12:00:00 AM
Western Australia discards more and recycles less - but uses solar hot water and is willing to pay more for green power - than any other state. Australia's Environment Issues and Trends 2010, released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, handed a mixed report card to WA.   ...more
Suburban family sets sustainable living standard
ABC News
27/01/2010 12:00:00 AM
An ultra retro-fitted unassuming house in Melbourne's West Brunswick does not seem like the place you would encounter a snapshot of our future sustainable households, but in the middle of over-consuming Australian suburbia, lies a family home that is ahead of the rest. ...more
Real story not being told on power price rises
SMH
20/01/2010 12:00:00 AM
Consumers will soon start paying a lot more for electricity. In NSW, EnergyAustralia, Integral Energy and Country Energy customers will be paying an additional $727, $554 and $893 a year by 2013. Other states are also announcing massive rises. Most headlines blame environmental costs such as the ETS and solar feed-in tarrifs - but they are wrong. There's a more pernicious dynamic at work. ...more
New Energy Creates See-Thru Solar Glass Window That Generates Electricity
12/01/2010 12:00:00 AM
New Energy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB: NENE), currently developing MotionPowerTM technologies for generating electricity from the kinetic energy of moving vehicles and SolarWindowTM technologies capable of generating electricity on glass windows, today announced that researchers have overcome a significant scientific hurdle in creating the first-of-its-kind see-thru solar glass by replacing a visibility-blocking solid metal component with environmentally-friendly, non-metallic, transparent compounds. ...more
Big electricity users could pay more
ABC
22/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
The State Government is considering charging households that use large amounts of electricity more for their power. ...more
Electricity prices set to rise by 62% by 2013
SMH
15/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
NSW households will need to brace themselves for the first impact of the Federal Government's proposal to cut emissions, with electricity prices expected to rise steeply over the next few years. ...more
Solar power backflip 'helps households'
WAtoday.com.au
7/12/2009 12:00:00 AM
A NSW backflip that will see households paid for all the electricity they generate using solar panels on their homes has been welcomed by environmental groups. ...more
NSW to go gross with solar
Echo
12/11/2009 12:00:00 AM
Environmental and industry groups have welcomed the announcement by the NSW Government that they will introduce a gross feed in tariff for renewable energy systems such as solar and wind. A gross tariff system pays for all of the electricity that the system produces, not just the excess that is fed back into the grid.     ...more
Renewable Energy Industry Gets the Credit it Deserves
Australsun
20/08/2009 12:00:00 AM
After years of hard work by many in the renewable energy industry, the Senate has today approved the Renewable Energy Target Legislation. This will ensure that 20 percent of Australia's electricity comes from renewable sources by 2020. ...more
Solar Powered Moon Rover to Explore Apollo Landing Site
Inhabitat.com
24/07/2009 12:00:00 AM
Solar power doesn't have to be limited to Earth-based gadgets - at least, not if Carnegie Mellon roboticist Dr. William Whittaker has anything to say about it. Whitaker and Astrobiotic Technology have teamed up to develop a solar rover prototype that will explore the Apollo moon landing site and find out how materials used in the mission have fared over all these years. ...more
Australsun Wins Schools Tender
20/07/2009 12:00:00 AM
Following a rigorous and highly competitive tender process, Australsun are proud to have become a preferred provider of solar power to Western Australian government schools, under the National Solar Schools Program (NSSP).   ...more
Sun Sets on Rebate
9/06/2009 12:00:00 AM
The sun has set on a generous government rebate for solar panels, under which the industry boomed.The Federal Government abruptly axed its $8,000 rebate today.There is now no rebate, although Parliament is expected to pass an alternative, smaller rebate in coming months. ...more
Sunny Side Up
Fremantle Herald
26/02/2009 12:00:00 AM
Mr Young says now is a great time to go solar with power costs set to substantially rise and the Barnett government promising to increase the tariff paid to those who put electricity back into the grid.       ...more
Family Power Bills to Rocket by $246 a Year
The West Australian
24/02/2009 12:00:00 AM
The average WA household will be slugged an extra $4.74 a week — about $246 a year — for electricity from July 1, the State Government announced yesterday. ...more
Means Test Dropped for Rebates on Solar Panels
The Australian
18/12/2008 12:00:00 AM
THE Rudd Government will scrap the means test on household solar panels from July as part of its plan to have 20 per cent of the nation's electricity supplied from renewable energy sources by 2020. ...more
Power Shortage Risk
ABC News
9/12/2008 12:00:00 AM

The Premier Colin Barnett says he is extremely worried about the potential for power shortages in Western Australia in two to three years time.   ...more

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Transformer energises power play
Herald Sun
27/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
PRECISION rather than passion is what you would expect a German national to exude at an energy technology gabfest. But Dr Bertram Ehmann, head of the 100 billion ($A200 billion) Munich-based Siemens Transformers, was positively excited about the message in his keynote address to the Clean Energy Council conference this week.   ...more
Red centre to get solar power station
The West Australian
26/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
A solar power station will be built in Alice Springs with $3.3 million in federal government money.Environment Minister Peter Garrett announced the funding on Wednesday, saying it would pay for half the power station. ...more
NSW to introduce solar feed-in tariff
The West Australian
23/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
NSW households generating solar power will be paid for surplus electricity they pump into the grid under a new state government scheme. The Rees government next year will introduce a feed-in tariff to encourage people to take up solar power, paying for unused electricity householders put into the grid. ...more
Payback plan to invest in solar energy
The Australian
21/11/2008 12:00:00 AM
A NATIONAL scheme to pay people for generating solar energy would drive a $17.9 billion investment in the industry, generate thousands of jobs and reduce Australia's carbon emissions by 4.6 million tonnes a year, a report to be released today reveals. ...more
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