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  • Slowdown at Hydro Tasmania

    May 24, 2013 - no Comments

    Hydro Tasmania, which last year announced a record $103 million profit, is likely to see its financial performance suffer as energy demand slows and the carbon price falls. The Tasmanian

  • Playford B: solar or coal?

    September 7, 2012 - no Comments

    The future of the mothballed Playford B power station in Port Augusta is uncertain after the Federal Government failed to negotiate contracts for closure with a number of power generators,

  • Carbon decision to save Oz polluters $2.5 billion

    September 5, 2012 - no Comments

    Carbon analytics company RepuTex has reported that Australia’s top polluters will save approximately $2.5 billion over 5 years as a result of the government’s decision to align Australia’s carbon scheme

  • Govt drops carbon price floor

    August 29, 2012 - no Comments

    The Gillard Government has scrapped the announced $15 floor price for carbon and as the price of carbon falls worldwide will link with the European Union’s emissions trading scheme from

  • Australia a “role model” on carbon: GE

    August 24, 2012 - no Comments

    Australia is seen as a role model on low carbon policy according to a GE executive. Beth Comstock, chief marketing officer of GE said, “I can say from a global

  • Carbon tax to cost Woodside less than 1 percent of revenue

    July 20, 2012 - no Comments

    Australia’s largest oil and gas company, Woodside Petroleum, will bear costs of less than 1 percent of expected revenues – or as little as $20 million – as a result

  • Carbon price $5 by 2020: Bloomberg

    July 4, 2012 - no Comments

    A report by Bloomberg New Energy Finance claims that the carbon price in Australia will fall from $23 today to $16 in 2016 and to $5 by 2020. Bloomberg analyst

  • Carbon price not enough for renewable future: Grattan Institute

    February 7, 2012 - no Comments

    The Federal Government’s carbon pricing regime was not sufficient incentive to foster the generation of low-cost renewable energy technologies, according to a report from the University of Melbourne thinktank the

  • Let the market decide carbon price: Delta chief

    November 9, 2011 - no Comments

    The chief executive of one of Australia’s largest carbon emitters says the Government’s $23 per tonne carbon price is too low to change market behaviour, and says the market should

  • Australia’s biggest polluters: the list

    November 9, 2011 - no Comments

    COMPANY                 Emissions  @A$23/tonne mln (mln t/yr) Macquarie Generation    23.4       A$538.2m Delta Electricity               20.5       A$471.5m Great Energy alliance     19.8       A$455.4m International Power         17.2       A$395. C S Energy Ltd                 16.8       A$386.4m TRUenergy