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With a carbon price, investment opportunities for renewables

Dollars help the planet

…It has to be clean, green and keen for veteran fund manger Laurence Freedman — who these days runs his charitable Freedman Foundation — to put his money into it…

A world of opportunities, Sydney Morning Herald, David Potts, September 6, 2010 – “……both sides support the renewable energy target for 2020.

By then the power companies must be supplying 20 per cent of their electricity output from renewable energy sources such as wind farms and solar panels……

the problems of renewable energy stocks. They will remain a more expensive and less reliable form of energy than coal or gas until there’s a tax on carbon or some form of emissions trading scheme.

Even so, the market seems to be overlooking the critical fact that from January 1 the renewable energy targets for power generators progressively increase and, as a handy chart in Infigen’s result presentation shows, they will have to buy large-scale renewable energy certificates (LRECs) to make the target……..

Dollars help the planet. It has to be clean, green and keen for veteran fund manger Laurence Freedman — who these days runs his charitable Freedman Foundation — to put his money into it……

A world of opportunities

September 8, 2010 - Posted by | climate change - global warming, General News | , , ,

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