Clean Energy Finance Corporation
Tony Abbott fails to understand the value of renewable energy sufficiently to overcome his sense of political opportunity. Such an approach as PM will leave Australia desperately clinging to fossil fuel dependence.
Despite a good dose of sound economic rationale in the expert review, the jury is out as to whether the Clean Energy Finance Corporation can be introduced effectively.
Many commentators have derided the Clean Energy Finance Corporation as a waste of money. They are wrong and overlook how the fund can fuel big private investment.
Where the Clean Energy Finance Corporation chooses to put its money could prove irrelevant. But if the fund can survive, it might create new problems for clean energy players.
If the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation remains on the table for long, the banks will be at it like bees to honey.
Recommendations for the running of the $10 billion CEFC were released today and while there are many positive developments, the government appears destined to repeat some old mistakes.
Australia's policymakers could save $10bn if they learnt from Germany's carbon policy mistakes and realised there's no point subsidising carbon emission reductions if total emissions are capped anyway.
The recent failure of Solar Flagship projects to meet financing deadlines is simply due to a poor policy process and we’re in danger of repeating the same mistakes with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
If the Coalition really wants to manage Australia's rising power prices, they will have to get serious about renewable energy. And that means changing their attitude to the CEFC.
Clean Energy Finance Corporation set to become the next political football; can the LRET be met?; and baseload generation becomes a marginal proposition in NZ.
Let's have a mature debate with innovative thinkers from all sides of politics to ensure that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation does what it says on the label: unleash homegrown innovation in clean power technology.
The headline-grabbing failure of Solyndra in the US holds some important lessons for the CEFC, but experience shows that it could unlock more than $100 billion of private capital if it's done right.
The newly appointed architect of the Clean Energy Finance Corp takes note of the Solyndra debacle, and says the tension between funding new technologies and making a commercial return may be hard to resolve.
Despite the GFC, it is still possible to proceed with power projects without a retailer purchase agreement, Pac Hydro's Lane Crockett explains, while the company is still confident on the Moree Solar Farm.