How clean are Australia’s ‘clean coal’ power stations?

24 May, 2017

What’s that you say? Australia has ‘clean coal power stations’? Well, it depends how you define ‘clean coal’. Most power sector observers eschew the phrase because frankly it’s misleading. No technology exists that allows coal to be used without adding carbon pollution to the atmosphere — however the Australian Government and the Australian coal sector use the term ‘clean coal’ to refer to two technologies:

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Australian farmers are adapting to climate change

23 May, 2017

2016-17 has been a great year for Australian farmers, with record production, exports and profits. These records have been driven largely by good weather, in particular a wet winter in 2016, which led to exceptional yields for major crops.

  
Market reform, not subsidies, needed for battery storage market

23 May, 2017

The future of Australia’s energy storage market depends on urgent market reform – not subsidies – says the Clean Energy Council, in a new report that joins the growing chorus for Australia’s policy makers to finally respond to the challenges and opportunities of new technologies.

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GCL unveils 165 MW of EPC deals with Xi’an Datang Electric

22 May, 2017

Subsidiaries of GCL New Energy Holdings have selected Xi’an Datang Electric Power Design and Research Institute to provide EPC services for 165 MW of solar capacity at three sites in China.

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