What are the most exciting cleantech projects in Australia this year? We look at solar energy, algae, electric vehicles, geothermal, wind and wave energy, and take a punt on their prospects.
The hot CleanTech projects of 2012
Interview: Unilever’s Gavin Neath
Companies betting on business as usual are so wrong. “I don’t think they fully understand how wrong they are.”
The top Australian cleantech predictions for 2012
2012 will be a critical year for cleantech in Australia. Costs for many technologies are falling rapidly, but critical decisions will be made about renewable energy targets and support mechanisms. Here, the heads of Pacific Hydro, GE, Infigen Energy, Better Place, Origin, First Solar, Carnegie Wave, the Grattan Insitute, the CEC and the SEAA share their predictions.
Mixed Greens: LanzaTech’s big raising
LanzaTech attracts Malaysian investors; GE promotes solar/wind farms, Ceramic sales in Germany, green light for Acciona $400m wind farm
Reports debunk wind turbine syndrome
New studies in the US and Australia question links between wind turbines and physical symptoms.
Mixed Greens: Algae rises to the top
Algae.Tec completes fund raising, Geodynamics digs again, NZ wind farm canned
While you were at the beach …..
The holiday period produced a series of important reports on cleantech in Australia, including how government authorities got it completely wrong on solar, the anti-wind Coalition, how EVs could save the grid, polemics over the CEFC and Tony Abbott’s Gingrich connection.
Will Australia have its own Kodak moment?
The collapse of Eastman Kodak has been one of the most sadly predictable corporate demises in recent memory: A company that had the key to its own future but refused to turn the lock. How many Australian companies will follow the same path?
First Solar sets module efficiency record
Module efficiency gains takes thin film solar closer to price parity
MIXED GREENS: Hungry for solar
Solar takes off in Gulf States as costs better those of fossil fuels; Nashville singer builds a 30MW solar farm; and wind energy cheaper than coal in India.
