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CEFC, CBA finance car dealership energy efficiency loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... Energy Savings Schemes, which also offsets the cost of the replacement. Autonomous Energy has estimated that the annual electricity savings achieved through the solar and lighting upgrades will be equivalent to the energy needs of 200 houses, CEFC said. ...

NAB places second green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... which is managed by Australian-based Infrastructure Capital Group. HH2 is estimated to generate 262 gigawatt hours of electricity which is the equivalent of 190,000 tonnes of avoided greenhouse gas emissions, NAB said. BNP Paribas provided the majority ...

Assessing likely process, impacts of first ERF auction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... middle ground," she said. In my experience with other auctions, such as the Settlement Residue Auction (SRA) in the electricity market there was the opportunity to enter multiple bids at different prices and there was a greater opportunity for bidders ...

Carnegie Wave Energy launches Perth Wave Energy Project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015  |  NEWS
... array globally and the first time any company has created a wave farm with multiple wave energy converters to produce electricity and fresh water for Australia's naval base, HMAS Stirling. The official switch-on of the power station was conducted earlier ...

CEFC finances $20m in business energy improvements

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... AU$220,000 loan. In the projects financed by the CEFC, agribusinesses typically would expect to halve their on-grid electricity or gas consumption by switching to onsite generation and manufacturers upgrading equipment could expect to lower their energy ...

KKR invests in Sundrop Farms expansion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... crops in glasshouses using proprietary technology. The "Sundrop System" uses concentrated solar power to create heat, electricity, and desalinated water for the agribusiness's operations. "We grow food where land is too arid for farming, fresh water ...

NAB issues $150m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... renewable energy assets financed by the climate bond are expected to have an installed capacity of over 1.5 gigawatts of electricity, the equivalent of an estimated 3.9 million tonnes of avoided greenhouse gas emissions, and will generate enough power ...

Carnegie Wave Energy installs first CETO 5 unit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... array globally and the first time any company has created a wave farm with multiple wave energy converters to produce electricity and fresh water for Australia's naval base, HMAS Stirling. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2016. Carnegie's ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... resulted in new exclusions for companies with exposures to activities such as coal, tar sands mining, and coal-fired electricity generators, the superannuation fund said. The threshold for the "high carbon sensitive" negative screen has been set at a ...

UNSW issues first sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... in terms of energy utilisation, the university's Kensington campus consumed almost 69,000 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of electricity in 2013, with 66.3% coming from grid electricity - mostly coal-fired power plants, 18.3% from natural gas, 7.3% from co-generaiton ...