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NZ Super Fund invests in wind turbine developer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has invested US$55 million in a US company that develops wind turbines. US-based Ogin Inc. uses aerospace technology to develop a smaller, high-performance wind turbine, the fund said. It is a privately held company. ...

Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... and said that AU$43.6 billion has been lent. "Progress to date has been primarily in renewable energy including two major wind farms and a solar farm," the bank said. "This work has been further supported by the establishment of a CleanTech Working Group ...

CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Fresh Eggs at Pittsworth, also in Queensland. The Clean Energy Finance Corporation noted its participation in the Macarthur Wind Farm refinancing and sale by Meridian Energy, which it says "has demonstrated that developers of large-scale renewable energy ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
Australian residential and commercial property could reach zero carbon emissions standards in 10 years with sufficient retrofitting to reduce energy consumption, according to Beyond Zero Emissions (BZE), a not-for-profit research and education organisation. ...

WWF: ETS repeal to reduce renewable energy, increase prices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... on carbon serves not only to put a long-term signal to investors that favours lower-carbon emitting renewable sources like wind and solar, but also works in conjunction with other market-shaping polices like the Renewable Energy Target (RET) to reduce ...

CEFC in active discussions with project proponents

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... first few days of the financial year, CEFC announced that it would provide financing for the construction and operation of a wind farm in Taralga, New South Wales and that it would participate in the refinancing of a stake in the existing Macarthur Wind ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation makes first investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has hit the ground running by providing finance for two wind farm projects and expanding an existing fund that provides business loans for energy efficiency upgrades. CEFC CEO Oliver Yates The AU$10 billion ...

Citi analyses impact of carbon price repeal on ASX companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon cost implicit in the "black energy" price is removed. There will be negative impacts on renewable generators such as wind and hydro, because those generators benefit from a higher electricity price. The impact will be broadly neutral on Origin ...

Australia ranked fourth on global renewable energy list

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... of project activity and investment interest. Ernst & Young cites Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) in finding that new wind power projects In Australia are as much as 18% cheaper than new gas and 14% cheaper than new oil plants. Now in its 10 th edition ...

Australian Ethical puts tobacco resolution to TOMRA AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... NV in June 2012, Australian Ethical wrote to their CEO, expressing concerns about the purchase and asking the company to wind down their indirect involvement in the production of tobacco products. TOMRA wrote back and declined to do so, Vernon said. ...