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CEFC commits $30 million to Coleambally Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018  |  NEWS
... Neoen Australia's head of solar development. "We would like to thank them for their commitment to Australia's clean energy future and Australia's renewable energy sector." The Coleambally Solar Farm will consist of about 565,000 solar panels on 550 hectares. ...

Oliver Yates to step down as Clean Energy Finance Corporation CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... in 2013, the CEFC Act was targeted for repeal as part of the unwinding of the previous Labor government's Clean Energy Future legislative package. The legislation to repeal the CEFC was split into a separate bill in the Senate, which was then defeated. ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... minister in the previous Labor government, Combet played a central role in the development and passage of the Clean Energy Future legislation which brought in the carbon price at AU$23/tonne. Combet said that regulation of carbon emissions is more expensive ...

CEFC, CFSGAM to establish clean energy infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies ...

Senate rejects CPM repeal, business calculates liabilities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The Senate has rejected a bill to repeal the Clean Energy Future legislation, but businesses continue to operate as if the current carbon pricing mechanism will continue beyond 1 July, according to carbon advisory firm RepuTex. The federal government ...

CDP: ASX200 companies set short term goals for C02 reduction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... was a high risk in 2013. Many of the uncertainties related to the Coalition government's plans to repeal the Clean Energy Future carbon pricing legislation. In comparison, five ASX200 companies that reported carbon pricing as a high risk, CDP reported. ...

IGCC: insto investors would park capital if CEFC repealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... investments in Australia, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) told a Senate inquiry into the repeal of the Clean Energy Future legislation. "The business model of the CEFC is not an investment banking business model - it is not there to maximise ...

CEFC invests $536 million across 39 projects in first year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... energy efficiency and low emissions technologies. It was funded with AU$10bn and announced as part of the Clean Energy Future package to encourage private investment, help overcome capital market barriers to commercialising clean energy technologies ...

Carbon price uncertainty erodes business investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... eroded confidence in the long-term pricing signal, Petersen said. "Once the price was introduced through the Clean Energy Future package, businesses actually started the process of implementing the transition to the cleaner economy," he said. "But the ...

WWF: ETS repeal to reduce renewable energy, increase prices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... forthcoming cap on greenhouse gas emissions from the Climate Change Authority (CCA). As stipulated under the Clean Energy Future Act, from 2015, there will be an absolute limit on emissions from the country's most emissions-intensive industries. The ...