According to Giles Parkinson in the Climate Spectator:
Australian policy makers show no signs of tiring from their unflinching belief in centralised power stations.
The article, ‘The new pillars of power’, looks at alternatives to this belief.
Giles cites the recent announcement by the City of Sydney Council to generate its own power through mini-gas power plants. The [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]