INDUSTRY BLOG: News from Sustainable Energy Industry/Trade Associations

No Need for Fossil Fuel in 40 Years
By admin on July 24, 2010

24 July 2010 Ray Wills, CEO Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA) Website: www.wasea.com.au Email: info@wasea.com.au The WA Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA) welcomes the Greens policy announcement today that “Australia can be a renewable energy powerhouse, harnessing our tremendous resources of sun, wind, wave, earth and human ingenuity to replace our reliance on coal with 100% renewable energy within decades”. WA SEA, Australia’s largest energy indu…

Include Business in Cash for Clunkers
By admin on July 24, 2010

24 July 2010 Ray Wills, CEO Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA) Website: www.wasea.com.au Email: info@wasea.com.au The WA Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA), Australia’s largest energy industry chamber, welcomes the announcement that a re-elected Gillard Government will embark on a program to remove old clunkers from Australian roads. Such a scheme has the potential to reduce • air pollution (higher standard engines cars) • carbon emissions (fuel ef…

Australia’s Largest Energy Chamber Turns Eight
By admin on July 12, 2010

11 July 2010 Ray Wills, CEO Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA) Website: www.wasea.com.au Email: info@wasea.com.au The Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA), established on 11 July 2002 to promote the development of a sustainable energy industry as a solution to reducing Australia's greenhouse gas emissions, turns eight years old today. The first meeting of the Association in 2002 set a target for WA SEA membership of 100. As of our birthd…

Energy Smart Government an Inconvenient Truth?
By admin on July 1, 2010

1 July 2010 Ray Wills, CEO Western Australian Sustainable Energy Association Inc. (WA SEA) Website: www.wasea.com.au Email: info@wasea.com.au The Western Australian Auditor General’s Report on Energy Smart Government released yesterday, 30 June 2010, reveals a lack of leadership and commitment from the majority of government agencies to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The Energy Smart Government program was to achieve a 12 per cent reduction in government’s energy consumpt…