{"id":17695,"date":"2017-12-18T05:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=17695"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:14:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T05:44:26","slug":"powering-past-coal-mb0369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/powering-past-coal-mb0369\/","title":{"rendered":"Powering Past Coal Alliance Builds &#8211; Australia Still MIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17697\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17697\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/powering-past-coal.jpg\" alt=\"Powering Past Coal Alliance\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17697\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/coal-electricity-energy-plant-88061\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow&quot; noopener\">byrev<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The number of member countries to join an international alliance with a goal of rapidly phasing-out conventional coal power has quickly grown.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/australia-coal-alliance-hg0460\/\">Powering Past Coal Alliance<\/a> was launched last month at the COP23 talks in Germany. It kicked off with 25 partner countries, states and organisations, and the list reached 58 last week. The newest member countries include Ethiopia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Coal power has no future if we are to meet the Paris goals. In Sweden, we have basically already gone through the phase out, and we are aiming for 100 percent renewable energy,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswire.ca\/news-releases\/canada-and-the-uk-double-powering-past-coal-alliance-members-with-business-leaders-663703093.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Isabella L\u00f6vin, Sweden&#8217;s Deputy Prime Minister.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In addition to Government partners pledging to phasing out existing conventional coal power, they also commit to placing a moratorium on new stations without operational carbon capture and storage (CCS) &#8211; and given the track record of CCS, such plants will be very thin on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses and other organisations to have joined the Alliance include BT, Salesforce, Unilever and Virgin Group. Business partners commit to powering their operations without coal and other partners to supporting clean power.<\/p>\n<p>While Australian Energy Minister Josh Frydenberg has already signalled Australia won&#8217;t be joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance; there&#8217;s nothing stopping Australian state and territory governments from doing so. For example, while the USA&#8217;s federal government hasn&#8217;t signed on, California has.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, another alliance Australia may be asked to join is a pro-coal one.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Trump Administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2017\/12\/12\/trump-seeks-pro-coal-allies-global-push-fuel-grows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is gearing up<\/a> to start a \u201cClean Coal Alliance\u201d to counter the anti-fossil fuel movement &#8211; and it&#8217;s rumoured Australia may be targeted as a potential member.<\/p>\n<p>While on the topic of\u00a0 so-called &#8220;clean coal&#8221; and CCS, RenewEconomy <a href=\"http:\/\/reneweconomy.com.au\/audit-office-slams-australias-dud-investments-in-clean-coal-90953\/\">reported on Friday<\/a> the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has delivered a less than glowing assessment of Australia\u2019s carbon capture and storage programs.<\/p>\n<p>One of the programs was the Carbon Capture and Storage Flagships (CCS Flagships) Program, which was established back in 2009. <a href=\"https:\/\/industry.gov.au\/resource\/LowEmissionsFossilFuelTech\/Pages\/Carbon-Capture-Storage-Flagships.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CCS Flagships<\/a> was meant to support the construction and demonstration of large-scale integrated CCS projects in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ANAO&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anao.gov.au\/sites\/g\/files\/net3416\/f\/ANAO_Report_2017-2018_20.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">summary<\/a> (PDF).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The CCS Flagships projects are yet to reach the stage of deployable technology as originally envisaged in the program design. It is unclear whether the program is capable of delivering on its strategic policy objective as the program is due to close in 2020, and all program funding is currently committed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The cost to the Australian taxpayer for this program so far? $233 million. 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