Martin Nicholson, Tom Biegler and Barry Brook have conducted a large-scale review of twenty-five studies of electricity generating technologies. Their central focus was on baseload generators, which account for 75% of electricity generated in Australia. The article from The Australian, Emission reductions are not blowin’ in the wind looks at what will happen next if [...]

As reported on GRIST, the Bloomberg New Energy Finance has published a report which shows that the USA is on the verge of a solar boom… IF stable policy and a significant investment is committed to support the continued growth of the solar industry.
The United States is on the verge of a solar boom that [...]

The WA Environment Minister Donna Faragher and Energy Minister Peter Collier of in-principle funding from the Low Emissions Energy Development (LEED) Fund announced further $8 million in funding for three new low-emissions renewable energy projects in the state which will bring the total investment of $38 million in low-emissions technology across Western Australia.
The news was [...]

This is a video message from Repower America in response to the Clean Air Act in the United States.
Some background about the video:

Thousands of Repower America members around the country took a stand for clean air and submitted their photos and videos in support of the Clean Air Act. This new video is a declaration [...]

Cleantech News – a look at what’s going on in the cleantech/greentech space…

With or Without A Climate Bill, U.S Power Sector is Changing (first published on Energy Boom Sept 10th) and re-posted by Solar Feeds on Sept 14th, the author Mindy Lubber had a decidedly upbeat outlook for solar and renewable power, despite the recent [...]

Australian renewable energy efforts have been featured in Matthew Perry’s Green Chip column of the New York Times on 22nd August “Australia steps up renewable energy efforts“
Australia has plans to build the biggest wind farm in the southern hemisphere by 2013, part of its scramble to fight climate change and harness its abundance of clean [...]

Farmers in California’s San Joaquin Valley that have had to remove thousands of hectares of farmland from agricultural production in most part due to salt build up caused by years of irrigation are calling for the revitalisation of the land by putting it to a new use: renewable power generation.
By installing the proposed “Westland Solar [...]

As the election moves into the final sprint, Cate Blanchett has made this video with the Australian Conservation Foundation to call for a national commitment to clean energy in Australia and a strong climate change policy from our Government.
“Along with millions of Australian’s, I believe that we need to increase our efforts to reduce pollution [...]

A few cleantech stories you might have missed…
From Australia:
“Big solar’s big potential”, Climate Spectator, 16th Aug
This week, the Australian Solar Energy Society joined the Australian Conservation Foundation in calling for an additional 5 per cent of Australia’s electricity to come from ‘big solar’ by 2020.
That target would see the generation of around 8,500 megawatts of [...]

As reported by Adam Morton in the Sydney Morning Herald today, the eastern states of Australia experienced a whopping 40% growth in wind power generation last year.
A Climate Group report on electricity generation and its emissions, covering all states except Western Australia, found 83 per cent of power used in 2009 came from greenhouse-intensive coal. [...]