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Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... core infrastructure assets could plummet like this despite concerns we are approaching a national under-supply of electricity while the price of coal is spiralling upwards means only one thing: that the cost of carbon output is now considered by the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... business news this morning had been a $12.9 billion takeover proposal for Origin Energy Ltd, Australia's second biggest electricity and gas retailer, by UK-based utility BG Group. "That is a substantial premium. "There might be a few other plays later ...

Inflation smashes through 4 pct barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... quarter were automotive fuel (up 5.4 per cent), pharmaceuticals ( up 13.1 per cent), house purchases ( up 1.7 per cent), electricity ( up 6.0 per cent), rents (up 2.0 per cent) and other financial services (up 2.0 per cent). Sectors to experience a fall ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... concern is that infrastructure sector growth has slowed from 8.9 per cent to 5.7 per cent. Illustrating the tension, electricity production increased 7.5 per cent, significantly below the macroeconomic growth rate. Coal production growing only 4.6 per ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... analysis of the Gambier Changebusiness consulting group comes to pass. "Pricing carbon into energy, including petrol and electricity, means unit costs will rise. As with the impacts of climate change, the most disadvantaged people in society may struggle ...

The looming inflationary upswing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... per barrel are "cheap". He said oil prices could top $US300 per barrel within the next five years And then we have electricity prices set to move upwards if coal prices keep following their current trajectory which is already predicted to reach $300 ...

SBI eyes infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... to support the growth was the biggest problem facing India. As a result, Wakandar said, the amount of investment in electricity and major port infrastructure are expected to increase by 51 per cent and 100 per cent respectively. "This expected growth ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... two-fifths (39 per cent) of total household energy use and 14 per cent of the residential sector greenhouse gas emissions. Electricity as the primary energy source has however decreased from 60 per cent down to around 50 per cent of all households between ...

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... balance remains in deficit," they noted in their report. Well at least the NSW labor government wants to sell their electricity system to the Chinese, which would be a welcome boost to managing the CAD notwithstanding that it shows the hypocrisy we all ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... of dollars each year into solar farms and create large scale solar generation projects that will feed back into the electricity grid. The projects are funded from the Google Foundation. If they have a blog, maybe the IMF can use it to update some of ...