Goldwind’s Moorabool North Wind Farm set to progress towards construction
By Goldwind Australia Goldwind Australia today announced it has made another step forward towards construction of the 150 megawatt (MW) Moorabool North Wind Farm (The Project), located in Victoria. Moorabool North Wind Farm project is the northern section of the 321 MW Moorabool Wind Farm. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
20MW solar farm to power crypto-currency mining in Collie
By Giles Parkinson 20MW solar farm that will produce power for crypto-currencies approved for the coal town of Collie in Western Australia. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
Carlos Ghosn: Nissan EV Strategy Focus Shifting To Affordability Rather Than Range
By James Ayre Nissan’s strategy when it comes to the plug-in electric vehicle market will be based increasingly around affordability, rather than being focused on greatly improving range, company CEO Carlos Ghosn was recently quoted by the Nikkei as saying Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Clean Technica
Climate Change: The fiduciary responsibility of politicians & bureaucrats
By Ian Dunlop After three decades of global inaction, none more so than in Australia, human-induced climate change is now an existential risk to humanity. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
Biggest winners, and biggest losers, of network monopoly game
By Hugh Grant For a Queensland household electricity bill with network charges of $1,000, the Queensland Government’s profits from the networks amounts to $470. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew Economy
Drones tested for search and rescue
The scenarios being tested this week are a shoreline search for a casualty, an offshore search for multiple casualties in the sea, a mud rescue and a communications blackspot where a drone is required to relay information between rescue teams and a casualty on a cliff. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric…
Volvo Trucks To Share EV Battery Tech Across Brands
By James Ayre Sweden’s Volvo Trucks, a component of Volvo AB, has revealed that plans are now in the works to share electric vehicle battery tech across brands — which would mean that Mack Trucks (USA) and UD Trucks (Japan) could both end up utilizing the firm’s’ battery tech in the future Read Full Article…
State street global advisors creates low carbon, high ESG index fund for Australian institutions
By PLcorporate In response to growing demand from Australian institutional investors for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment options, State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), in partnership with MSCI, has created a low carbon, high ESG international equities fund. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Renew…
Volvo Cars aims for 50 per cent of sales to be electric by 2025
Volvo Cars aims for fully electric cars to make up 50 per cent of its sales by 2025, the company announced. Read Full Article Here For more great articles: Electric Vehicles Research
Over 95% Of World’s Population Live In Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution
By James Ayre More than 95% of the world’s population in 2016 (+7 billion) lived in areas with dangerously high levels of air pollution — that is, in areas where WHO organization guidelines for air quality (themselves likely an underestimate) were exceeded. This is according to a new annual report from the Health Effects Institute…