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NAB funds second Environmental Upgrade Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... for the AU$720,000 upgrade to heating, cooling and lighting and a new building management system for the 15-storey commercial office block at 470 Collins Street in the Melbourne CBD. The upgrade is expected to result in a 30% saving in energy costs ...

Clean Energy Council: keep Renewable Energy Target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... definition is likely to result in bringing forward forms of renewable energy generation that may not otherwise have been commercial and producing renewable energy." The CEC noted in its submission that bringing forward forms of renewable energy formation ...

Local Government Super recognised at Green Globe Awards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... of our members." The fund was the joint winner of the energy award for refurbishing 76 Berry Street, North Sydney, a commercial building in the fund's property portfolio. The building was retrofitted and renovated to meet NABERS 6-star energy certification ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Jillian Broadbent has been named chair of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), with Michael Carapiet, Ian Moore, Anna Skarbek and Andrew Stock also named to the CEFC board. Broadbent, a member of the board of the Reserve Bank, chaired the CEFC ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund invests in Swanston St retrofit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
Sustainable Melbourne Fund has invested in a AU$440,000 environmental retrofit of a commercial building held by an owners corporation. Scott Bocskay The SMF investment will fund the installation of an energy efficient chiller unit at 55 Swanston Street ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... being stymied by: "First, the absence of aggregation mechanisms for energy efficiency investment in residential and commercial buildings. Second is the need to make bonds investment-grade for interested investors such as pension funds, and finally the ...

Environmental, economic risks also present opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... what we don't do so well is our commercialisation process," Roux said. "We're not very good at turning things into commercial products.... It's good to have innovation within the domestic economy, but you want to make sure that value-add goes into the ...

Climate change top perceived likely risk to Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Climate change is the top perceived risk to Australia, with inadequate R&D investment, flooding, storms and cyclones, demographic challenges and infrastructure fragility also figuring in a list of top 10 risks based on their likelihood of happening ...

City of Melbourne EUAs extended to include property trusts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... will be able to access environmental upgrade finances in the City of Melbourne, opening up 42% of the city's lettable commercial property space environmental upgrade agreements (EUAs) for energy and waste efficiency upgrades. Scott Bocskay "It was a ...

ARENA board members, CEO named

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
Jane Sargison, Betsy Donaghey, Judith Smith and Mark Twidell have been appointed as inaugural board members of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and Ivor Frischknecht has been named ARENA's first chief executive officer. Resources Minister ...