Energy Efficiency

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 enough [...]

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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 [Energex [...]

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Minister for Natural Resources, Mines and Energy and Minister for Trade The Honourable Stephen Robertson spins the commissioning of new substations to reinforce power supply to Gladstone area as a good thing.
He claims ‘electricity demand in the Gladstone area is being driven by strong long-term growth in the industrial, coal mining and minerals processing [...]

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