NSW
- May 2013
- Why NSW & Qld govts hate solar: coal assets for sale losing value
- Newcastle peak power pricing trial saving consumers money
- Report recommends Transgrid overhaul to prevent gold-plating
- PV price check for May: a little cheaper yet
- UNSW breakthrough makes solar cells cheaper and more efficient
- T4 coal terminal deferred for lack of need
- IPART helps bolster utilities' profits, again
Apr 2013 - Miners allowed to challenge new CSG rules
- Tropical fish found further South
- AGL failed to monitor emissions of GHGs
Older - Investment banker speaks out in support of C-price
- Green groups give O'Farrell gov't an F
- Community-funded solar array proposed for Rozelle shop's roof
- Environment Minister ignores own expert panel
- Coal dust exceeding safety levels 5/7 days
- O'Farrell: Corruption allegations may thwart mine approval
- PV rule change: add panels without losing your FiT
- Green groups oppose trigen as short-sighted, encouraging CSG
- O'Farrell: No CSG within 2km of homes, vineyards, studs, but green groups underwhelmed
- Time-of-use pricing could cut power costs by 2020
- How Green is your energy provider? find out more
- Sea level rise maps for Australia
- CSIRO and BoM predict spread of deserts in NSW and Vic (map)
- You can help measure sea level rise
- Can you blame your headaches, sleep disorders, on the absence of a nearby wind farm?
- Report: coal's damage to health in the Hunter Valley
- Regions and lower-income suburbs make the most of PV
- Follow the money: from fossil fuel lobby to AGW sceptics to anti-wind farm campaign
- Coal-fired power subsidised by taxpayers $2.5bn/year
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May 2013
- Coalition seeks to undermine CEFC by threatening to renege on contracts
- Greens propose Energy Savings Agency
- Exit of Better Place scuttles Canberra EV charging grid plan
- Doctors accuse governments of ignoring fossil fuel health costs
- Community solar gaining momentum
- Scrapping the C-price will cut $2 a week from your power bill (whoopee doo!)
- La Trobe found unneedful of C-tax assistance package
- Clean energy map of Australia
- Melbourne raises efficiency standards for new buildings
- Vale Joy Baluch, Mayor of Port Augusta
- The budget:
- $370m of ARENA funding deferred to 2020 (i.e. cancelled)
- Clean coal support slashed
- Efficiency funding cut for communities but maintained for industry
- Vic Health finds no harm from inaudible infrasound
- Coalition still banking on unproven science of soil carbon
- Big four banks drive fossil fuel industry growth
- Enhanced Geothermal power produced in SA
- AEMO finds no barrier to zero carbon electricity grid
- Think tank finds rooftop PV softens price shocks for all
- Macarthur wind farm operates well within noise limit Apr 2013
- Business Council wants lower C-price but rejects Coalition's Direct Action policy
- Mandated efficiency standards on new homes shown to have cut demand
- CEFC's investment guidelines finalised
- Climate Change Authority releases Issues Paper
- NCCARF releases paper on Urban Food Security
- Oz emissions down to 2000 levels, but for how long?
- Govt puts $4.5m into hydrogen energy storage development
- C-price becoming harder to abandon
- NCC commissions report on costs and benefits of coal mining
- SA study: wind farms only harm your health if you expect them to
- SA trial of peak demand pricing
- Gov't may require direct measurement of CSG fugitive emissions
- Exports drive up gas price, encouraging renewables domestically
- Gov't urged to end fossil fuel subsidies, Hedegaard agrees
- Domestic power storage coming to Oz
- Study finds renewables can now meet demand reliably at similar cost to fossil fuels
- Climate change costs businesses more than C-price does
- Property values not hurt by wind farms in Vic
- How Oz' climate has shifted so far
- Whistle blown on Qld CSG environmental impact assessments Older
- Australia ranked 17th on carbon competitiveness
- Every Rooftop: solar on your roof for no investment
- Climate disasters cost Vic $4b in ten years
- Anti-wind farm lobby makes people sick - study
- Warm waters cutting fish catch off WA
- Eastern grid supply less than 75% from coal in February
- Household energy demand could be halved in 10 years
- Wind farms have boosted rural economy $4b
- ACT farmer says 70% support wind farms
- Climate Commission finds extremes were made worse by climate change
- Official: 2013 was our hottest summer on record
- Experts say Qld coal-dust monitoring inadequate
- Coalition's Direct Action imagines 5% abatement available at $10/t
- Acoustical Society advises The Oz to consult grown-ups before publishing
- SA EPA finds wind farm infrasound far less than many common sources
- Election 2013: where the parties stand on climate and renewables
- Oz coal exports an increasing threat to climate
- Climate Commission confirms heatwave worsened by climate change
- Record high temperatures 3 times as frequent as record lows
- Rooftop PV in Qld saving even those without it $56/y
- The Oz: what credibility remains?
- Vic: half of users with smart meters cut their power bills
- Judges found anti-wind farm testimony conflicted and without merit
- Researchers find methane in air near CSG wells 3 times background
- Renewables likely cause of drop in SA electricity price
- Our $2.6b health bill for coal-fired power
- Domestic PV uptake by postcode
- Merit order effect may lead to redesign of electricity markets
- CSIRO: Urban grids could cope with 40% from PV
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May 2013
- German brewers warn of CSG pollution
- California C-price hits $14/t
- Yes, warming has slowed, but it's only a delay
- Scientific consensus on GW steady at 97%
- 3m years since as much CO2 in the air as now, and the Arctic was 8C warmer
- EU C price jumps after Merkel's comments
- First wind turbines with batteries included
Apr 2013 - Walmart aims to save $1b/y by going 100% renewable
- US grid could handle over 60% renewables - report
- Former US nuclear regulator considers all US nuclear plants flawed
- All new grid generation in US in March was solar
- Musk predicts grid storage viable in 10 years
- Major US Corporations call for action on climate
- Renewables eroding bankability of fossil fuel plants in Europe
- Only 35% of Republican voters support their party's anti-renewables stance
- Window closing for gas as bridging fuel
- UN report: air pollution kills more than major diseases combined
Older - IMF urges end to fossil fuel subsidies, now at 2.5% GDP globally
- Renewable energy sites as wildlife refuge
- Investment says time running out for meeting Carbon Budget
- World Bank sees Climate Change locking in poverty
- German insurers keen to invest in clean energy
- DoE says US could cut petrol use 80% by 2050
- Proposed EU car efficiency law would create 400,000 jobs, save $80b/y in imports
- US legislators propose C-price of $15-30/tCO2e
- Japan extracting methane hydrate from seabed
- US admiral ranks climate change biggest threat to peace in Pacific
- 2011 East African drought shown due to climate change
- The Guardian exposes billionaires funding fight against renewable energy
- US Tea Party origins traced to Big Tobacco, oil billionaires
- Stern: "I got it wrong on climate change; it's much, much worse"
- Former sceptic confirms it's humans to blame
- Renewables continue to drive down European power prices
- US report details growing cost of climate change to economy
- MyEnergi integrates domestic PV, electric vehicle and home appliances
- Peer-reviewed study links livestock deaths to fracking in US
- IPCC's forecast from 1990s proving true
- Stratospheric cooling confirms humans' role in warming
- More accurate data confirms Antarctic ice shrinking too
- Seas rising 60% faster than predicted
- Methane leaking from permafrost sooner than expected
- Food production generates 29% of GHGs
- Europeans' health not harmed by wind turbines: ANU study
- Ocean salinity changes show wet places wetter, dry drier, beyond predictions
- Cost of 4oC rise in ocean temperature put at $2 trillion
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