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Community and renewables in concert

November 26, 2015
The lively community session held in late September at Ararat’s Gum San Chinese Heritage Centre was part information day, part jobs fair for the Ararat Wind Farm, where earthworks and road-making, fencing, and anemometric and geotechnical testing are already in full swing.
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Wind with benefits

November 26, 2015
Windfall: an unexpected good fortune, a piece of fruit blown down by the wind! The term suits the benefits that accrue around wind farms. As rural-based infrastructure projects, they confirm people’s investment and faith in their communities, and contribute to thriving towns and skills-based employment. As windfalls go, Ararat Wind Farm, the 75-turbine, $450 million venture due to start feeding more of Australia’s endless wind resource to the electricity grid from 2017, has hit the ground running.
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Wind spins strong in Australia’s energy whirl

July 31, 2015
 

In this video, filmed in partnership with the Australian Financial Review for Australia’s Energy Future, Jason Willoughby, managing director, sales and project finance at GE Australia and New Zealand, discusses the part Australia’s renewable resources will play in our evolving energy mix.
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RETurn to investment—why we need the renewable energy target

March 11, 2015
As discussions on Australia’s renewable energy target are re-ignited, GEreports asked three renewable-energy supporters what RET certainty would mean—and added the GE perspective, too
The landowner
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The renewables climate

February 18, 2015
What is putting some countries ahead of others in the renewable-energy game? As Australia’s RET sits stalled at the curb, we ask Peter Cowling, GE’s general manager of renewable sales in the Asia Pacific region for his informed take. Who on this fast-warming, slow-cooking planet is getting it right?
GEreports: What makes some countries better at uptake of renewables than others?

Peter: Typically, without a carbon price renewables are more expensive than fossil fuels, and therefore they need policy support.
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2015 Predictions: Blue-Skying The New Year

December 17, 2014
As the sun sets on 2014 we ask Australian thought-leaders to fix their focus on tomorrow and share their view on recurring themes and outstanding opportunities for the year ahead. Here's part 1 of what will change the game in aviation, research, manufacturing, energy and healthcare in 2015.

Maureen Dougherty, President, Boeing Australia and South Pacific.

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Turbine, or not turbine—the RET is the question

December 11, 2014
The last Saturday in November is a warm one and the usually work-boots-only construction compound of Boco Rock Wind Farm is filled with visitors young and old. The ever-impressive women of the CWA are busy in a corner of the airy lunch room assembling mixed plates of a sandwich, half a jam-and-cream scone and a slice—a delicious bargain at $4. Nearby, Bella Cay is blowing out the candles on her 9th birthday cake, and homeschooling mother Nancy Groves is busy gathering information for a study unit devoted to renewable energy.
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Dr. Scott Watkins from CSIRO on catching the sun

July 09, 2014
Ever dreamt of charging your phone on the fly? Or thought about how the plants outside your house could power your home? Imagination could become reality thanks to Dr. Scott Watkins and the clever folks at the CSIRO who are creating new ways to soak up and store the sun’s rays. Watch this video to discover how photovoltaic cells could turn every surface - from your jacket to your car door to your rooftop - into a source of energy.
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Building on success, the 20 billion reasons why we need the RET

June 06, 2014
Jason Willoughby, Managing Director for Sales and Project Finance for GE
Since it was legislated in 2000 the Renewable Energy Target (RET) scheme has been massively successful in attracting investment in renewable energy sources, putting downward pressure on the wholesale cost of power, and creating diversity of electricity generation to power our future.
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Wave power turns the tide on electricity generation

April 17, 2014
For Mark Baker, a marine renewables business manager at GE Power Conversion, the tides are the perfect source of energy, more predictable and reliable than wind or solar power.
“Australia has fantastic opportunities to capture wave energy, because of the wind and the weather formations, and a huge coastline where most of the population lives.”
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