#CANADA: Federal Gov't Sets Up Solar Panels In Sunless Arctic Region

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The Federal government spent $1.4 million setting up solar panels in the most sunless region of Canada.

Records show the Department of Northern Affairs thought the climate change program would help small Arctic towns that have to rely on diesel generators for heat and light in winter.

However, the department acknowledged to the committee in a followup report that between 2019-2022, it spent $1,436,726 setting up solar panels in remote places like Nunavut where daylight hours total as little as four hours or less in the winter.

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#CHINA: Solar Power Loses Gov't Subsidies, Must Compete With Coal On Price From Now On

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China will only approve new solar and wind power capacity if it matches the country’s coal benchmark on price. The requirement for price matching with coal is part of a new set of conditions drafted by China’s National Development and Reform Commission, which will be in effect until 2020 in a bid to handle all the problems resulting from the fast growth in solar and wind capacity installation in recent years, such as energy waste because of grid logjams.

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#AUSTRALIA: PM Open To New Nuclear Plants, But Unconvinced On Costs

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Prime Minister Scott Morrison says he has "no issue" with nuclear power, and expanding the nation's nuclear energy generating capacity, except it doesn't "stack up" as an investment compared to Hydro Tasmania's "Battery of the nation" project

Morrison said in an interview that he'd do whatever it takes to bring electricity prices down but when it came to nuclear power, "I don't have any issues," but the "investment doesn't stack up."

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