Ever heard of Shenzhen? Once a small market town, it is now known as China’s Silicon Valley, and despite a population of 15 million people, the city runs on 60 per cent renewable energy.
Renewable energy utilises naturally occurring resources, like sunlight, wind, rain, oceans and underground hot rocks, that are always available somewhere.
On a typical sunny day in the Amazon, 20 billion metric tons of water flow upward through the trees and pour into the air, an invisible river that flows through the sky across a continent.
Two new wind farm contracts announced this week have been hailed as the final ones necessary to ensure the ACT reaches its goal of using 100 per cent renewable energy by 2020.
