Energy Efficiency

The Green Loans, insulation and school stimulus programs have just postponed D Day (Depression Day), not put it off and while electricity authorities started to blame emissions control as the reason for rising energy costs, we now know that electricity prices will go up regardless. Origin CEO (Grant King) told the committee for economic development of [...]

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Every so often, a rat with a gold tooth trots out the ‘latest investment opportunity’ and a skeptic might suggest another such ‘opportunity to make money’ by another of the rat-pack has surfaced. It would be interesting to find the ‘press release as a news story’ that helped seperate Queenslanders from their cash when Peter [...]

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In late February, the federal government press release was that they had made changes to the renewable energy target scheme, saying that, by doing so, it will enable it to exceed a 20 % target by 2020. Market demand for the scheme from new large-scale projects, such as wind farms and solar energy plants, has [...]

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A former GreenPower retailer has been caught by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission for receiving money from people who thought they were investing in renewable energy and spending it on other things. Global Green Plan Ltd, using the name GreenSwitch, was deregistered from the national GreenPower program in September 2008 for failing to buy [...]

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Jackgreen was Australia’s largest specialist ‘renewable energy’ retailer (of course there is no such thing as renewable energy). However, they went into voluntary administration a week before Christmas after failing to pay a $500,000 bill to the NSW government-owned Integral Energy and other creditors include Origin Energy, AGL Energy, Country Energy and Queensland supplier Energex [...]

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