Victoria and the ACT were aiming both higher and cleaner last week, with both setting new state-based targets for renewable energy on Friday.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews and Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio travelled to Keppel Prince Engineering at Portland in the state’s west to announce the government’s Renewable Energy Roadmap, and in the process set a minimum target of 20 per cent of the state’s electricity to come from renewable energy by 2020. The Premier also left open the possibility of raising this further when Victoria releases its final renewable energy plan later in the year.
28 August, 2015
Can a team of world-beating researchers from an Australian university smash the cost of storing energy down to 10 per cent of what it currently is?
The judges at the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes certainly thought so, as they awarded the University of South Australia team the ANSTO Eureka Prize for Innovative Use of Technology this week.