Mon, 8 February 2010
The world’s wind power capacity grew by 31 per cent in 2009, according to statistics released by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
The boost added 37.5 GW to total global wind power installations, bringing the figure up to 157.9 GW.
One third of these additions were made in China, which experienced yet another year of over 100 per cent growth.
China was the world’s largest wind energy market, nearly doubling its wind generation capacity from 12.1 GW in 2008 to 25.1 GW at the end of 2009.
A newly added capacity of 1,270 MW in India and some smaller additions in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan made Asia the biggest regional market for wind energy in 2009, with more than…
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Fri, 5 February 2010
The Department of Climate Change has said that analysis of the Opposition’s climate change policy confirms that it will not achieve a five per cent target by 2020.
Fri, 5 February 2010
The Australian Solar Energy Society (AuSES) has welcomed the Opposition’s commitment to increased support for solar energy in Australia, but has said that more needs to be done to take advantage of Australia’s solar resource.
Wed, 3 February 2010
The Coalition’s new climate change policy has received a lukewarm response from clean energy industry bodies.
Tue, 2 February 2010
Leader of the Opposition Tony Abbott has released the Coalition's climate change policy in response to the Government's proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS).
Tue, 2 February 2010
Australia has formally submitted its emissions reduction target range as part of the Copenhagen Accord, not moving from its original reduction target of five per cent unconditional and 15-25 per cent conditional.
