Highlights 2007/08.
- Continuing to expand Australia’s largest privately owned or operated renewable energy generation portfolio.
- Completing and commissioning the 94.5 MW Hallett (Stage 1) Wind Farm, and continuing to construct the Bogong 140 MW hydro expansion.
- Entering into the first trade of an Australian Emissions Unit (AEU) under the proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS), setting a price for carbon for the Australian market.
- Assisting with the negotiation of an engineering study at the Loy Yang A power station that will consider how to deploy carbon capture and storage technology.
- Announcing a number of new renewable energy projects including the construction of a second wind farm at Hallett in South Australia (71 MW) and development of projects at a further two wind farms near Hallett and the Macarthur wind farm in Victoria.
- Continuing to trade carbon internationally through the Chicago Climate Exchange.
- Being the first Australian company to publicly disclose the potential financial impacts on our business associated with a future Australian emissions trading scheme.
- Selling GreenPower™ accredited energy (in a variety of concentrations) to over 45,000 customers.
- Launching our Green Events service offering for business customers, with 6,500 kWh of accredited GreenPower being sold as Green Events since the inception of the program in early 2008.
- Launching an on-line carbon calculator to help our residential customers calculate their greenhouse emissions and take steps to reduce these, as well as ‘Energy Challenger’, an on-line energy efficiency diagnostic tool for business customers.
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