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COP28: Countries tackle coal as President claims "no science" behind phase-out

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... solutions to catalyse the financing at the scale and speed required to transition off of dirty power and accelerate the clean energy future." Some environment and community activist organisations were not so supportive of the move. Abby Maxman, President ...

Rest invests $1b in Quinbrook green data centres

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Superannuation firm Rest will invest $1 billion in renewable and clean energy infrastructure manager Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners. The commitment will support the energy transition, providing exposure to a range of assets including solar and battery ...

Loss and damage funds a key consideration for COP28

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... governments, markets and climate stakeholders around the world," Cockayne added, pointing to work he is doing with the Clean Energy Council to develop a Code of Practice for managing modern slavery risks in renewable energy value-chains. "Modern slavery ...

Capacity Investment Scheme expansion to jolt renewable energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... and Gas Association said the scheme is "the equivalent of planning to quit cold turkey." Simon Corbell, CEO of the Clean Energy Investor Group said that clean energy investors "strongly welcome this major policy initiative which will unlock significant ...

Macquarie opens clean energy arm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Australian and New Zealand. With an initial portfolio of 4 GW of projects in Australia, the business will develop clean energy projects across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. These include 2.4 GW of large-scale onshore wind farms ...

Investing during a disorderly transition: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... scenarios. The starting point in Australia was the electricity markets, where we could see how the transition to clean energy has been happening in a very messy way. There has been misalignment among policy, regulatory, investment and consumer signals ...

Treasury spruiks CEFC role in sustainable finance strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Treasury has proposed that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) take a key role in its recently announced sustainable finance strategy in delivering discounted financing to priority sectors as well as other aims. Earlier this month,Treasury released ...

Australian Ethical backs infrastructure debt funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... 100MW/200MWh battery project located in the Australian Capital Territory with funding provided by Infradebt and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The Genex Bouldercombe BESS is a 50MW/100MWh project located approximately 20km southwest of Rockhampton ...

Igneo refinances green credit facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... companies. Last year, our pure play renewable energy investments delivered a combined production of over 5.2 TWh of clean energy for consumers, displacing approximately 1.86 million tonnes of CO2e," Element said. "Of our global portfolio of companies ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... generation is dispatched and the impact it has on spot energy prices and thus revenue and return. A recent report by the Clean Energy Investor Group (CEIG) found that decarbonising Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) is possible, but requires ...