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ARENA grants $18m to Queensland combined wind, solar, storage project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Australia's growing demand for electricity and provide as much as 20% of new build capacity for Australia's 2020 renewable energy target," Frischknecht said. "If Windlab and Eurus can successfully integrate the first phase of Kennedy Energy Park into ...

QIC invests $800m in Powering Australian Renewables Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... QIC CEO. "PARF is the most significant step to date towards meeting the Australian Federal Government's Renewable Energy Target (RET), and should contribute up to 10% towards the overall target. This is the equivalent of taking 800,000 cars off the road ...

ARENA provides $9.9 million funding to New Gullan Range Wind Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... farms - enough to power 700,000 homes. We expect this to more than double by 2020 in line with Australia's renewable energy target." This is the first co-located large scale solar development in Australia, and could demonstrate that co-location is "the ...

Treasury Corporation of Victoria issues green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
Treasury Corporation of Victoria (TCV) has issued an AU$300 million green bond, the first certified Australian dollar green bond by an Australian government authority. The 1.75% 27 July 20121 TCV Green Bond proceeds will fund a portfolio of state investments ...

Moree Solar Farm signs PPA with Origin Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... consumer demand for renewable energy and helping meet Origin's obligations under the Federal Government's Renewable Energy Target," Origin noted. "The agreement is yet another Australian market first for FRV and demonstrates that stability is starting ...

Queensland government approves Clare Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... jobs during construction and power up to 65,000 homes when fully operational, helping us to reach our 50% renewable energy target by 2030," Trad said in a statement. FRV also owns the Moree Solar Farm in NSW, a 70MW farm that is under construction. Burdekin ...

Cities increasing uptake of renewable energy: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... sources. Further, more than a third of the cities disclosing to CDP this year report having some kind of renewable energy target in place. For the City of Sydney, its emissions and renewable energy targets were developed as part of community consultation ...

Swiss Re hedges wind risk for Infigen Energy wind farms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... renewable energy certificates generated by renewable energy output from the wind farms, as outlined in the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The finalised new RET was passed in Parliament this week. "The REC price also has a spot and a forward market," ...

IGCC calls on PM to retain Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, urging the federal government to maintain its previous support for the Renewable Energy Target (RET). "Allocating capital to low carbon activities is one of the most critical climate actions globally," Nathan Fabian, chief ...

Catholic Super makes case for global climate policies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... the repeal of the carbon pricing mechanism and the uncertainty around the structure and future of the Renewable Energy Target (RET) had impacted on the way that Australia was viewed as an investment market. "Investors here have been asking me that question ...