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 [...]

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 [...]