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DTEK joins the Climate Bond Initiative's Partner Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... climate ambitions in line with NDCs," according to the Climate Bond Initiative. Ukraine has committed to increasing electricity production from renewable energy sources by 7.4 billion kWh compared to today's annual production to reach 9 billion kWh per ...

CEFC invests in north Queensland integrated wind, solar, battery project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... and Eurus Energy. The $170 million 60MW hybrid renewable energy project will connect to the local grid, providing electricity to communities from Julia Creek to Charters Towers, more than 500 kilometres away and will generate enough power for more than ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases Marine Renewable Energy Criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... infrastructure including offshore wind, offshore solar, tidal, wave, ocean thermal energy conversion, and salinity gradient electricity generation. Although wind and solar projects have been available for Climate Bonds Certification, under going forward ...

Pollinate Energy to open operations in fifth city - Kanpur

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... is an industrial city of 3 million people, where over 85% of the communities surveyed live without or with partial electricity, over 75% of electrified households report daily power cuts, and the average weekly income for families living in unelectrified ...

Challenges to Carbon Capture and Storage adaptation in Australia: Credit Suisse

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... disclosure away, but my take on it was that they didn't think CCS was going to be a big thing for thermal coal-fired electricity generation, but would be for steel and other industries. That's where they thought that the R&D was going." Credit Suisse ...

CEFC appoints Ian Learmonth as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... acutely aware of the changing dynamics in the energy markets and ensuring that there is security, and reliability in the electricity market. Those are areas that we'll be very focused on." Learmonth has been with SVA since 2011, and established SVA's ...

CEFC to work with SA government on battery finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017  |  NEWS
... whom may apply to the South Australia tender. "Storage and grid-scale batteries are an essential part of a strong electricity system," Yates said. "Storage will enable higher volumes of clean energy to be incorporated into the grid, as part of Australia's ...

CEFC invests $150m in solar projects in regional NSW

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... a significant reduction in the cost of solar energy to the point where it is very competitive with other forms of electricity generation." The three projects have also received $16 million in grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency ...

Investment professionals identify key ESG themes for 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... the continued uptake of renewables, Sustainalytics said. "Solar power has become an attractive means of generating electricity for several reasons," Sustainalytics said. "Most importantly, the rapidly declining cost of solar panels, coupled with improved ...

University of Melbourne launches Sustainability Plan 2017-2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017  |  NEWS
... will divest itself of fossil fuel holdings, become carbon neutral before 2030 and achieve zero net emissions from electricity by 2021, under its newly launched sustainability plan. Under the new Sustainability Plan 2017-2020, the University of Melbourne ...