GVP's team has worked in a wide range of renewable energy projects both in Australia and in Europe.

Tobi is a clean energy strategist and a business developer who has worked in the area of Cleantech commercialisation and sustainability since 2004. His area of expertise includes renewable and clean energy, hydrogen fuel, transportation, recycling, sustainable agriculture, and ecotourism.

Tobi also has worked as a commercialisation consultant for one of Australia's leading commercialisation organisations, where he helped inventors commercialise their "green" and Cleantech innovations.

In 2010, Tobi also lectured part-time at one of Melbourne's leading universities in International Trade Strategies and has tutored in Global Logisitics.

Tobi's current role with Green Venture Partners is to develop strategies, structure and make clean energy projects investment ready for developers looking to finance and develop projects in the area of wind, solar, biomass and tidal, both in Australia and globally.

He also provides consulting and research in the area of solar, wind, biomass and biofuels. He is currently writing an academic journal article on strategy policy development for the renewable energy industry in Australia.

Tobi's passion and expertise is in start-up ventures and has worked in the area of strategic development, financial modelling, funding and grant sourcing and planning. Over the past 17 years, Tobi himself has established a number of successful start-up businesses in the area of manufacturing, food, ecotourism and consulting. He has also worked and established businesses and projects in the Pacific and China.

He has run a successful consultancy for over eleven years and has been involved in a number of projects including renewable energy, sustainability as well as manufacturing and business and health services.

His interests include entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainable development, and building on his interest in these areas, completed the Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation with honours at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia in 2009 with an honours major in International Business.

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Zaida is a creative and analytical person; her experience in different areas of Engineering (Mechanical, Material Handling and Software Management Projects) has given her a holistic view of The Global Market.

Her experience has ranged from Freight Forward to Engineering to Software environments performing reports for the auditory management of the Government Web sites and functioning of the applets in the Government platform in Colombia. This has allowed her the opportunity to demonstrate the ability to adapt her communication style and to prove her negotiation capabilities when liaising between customers and the technical experts. Part of her role at Tieman Industries in Australia, was clearly interpreting highly technical information for non-technical individuals to elaborate the operation manuals and mechanical safety procedures.

Her concern to understand business affairs took her to complete the Master of International Business and research in Leadership and Ethics in the Global Market in December 2009 awarded with Certificate of Excellence for Top Students, form the Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship. Prior to arriving in Australia she did some studies of Anthropology in Colombia, which emphasises culture and the cultural diversity.

Zaida has developed a genuine passion for analyses of customer needs through Market Research and developing the ability of harness entrepreneurial perception and intuition.

In turn, she enjoys the challenge of formulating marketing strategies accordingly, especially in Global Strategy Developed understanding and appreciation of Quality Assurance (ISO) and Service Delivery standards.

Why wind is cutting energy costs

The most common critique of wind energy, and renewables in general, in the mainstream media and anywhere the issue is discussed is that it is expensive.

The problem is, this is only half true. Or at least, it only tells half the story. While the levelised cost of energy from wind farms is higher than that of baseload coal and gas, the deployment of wind energy here and overseas is having a surprising impact on energy market prices: it is causing them to fall.

Source: Giles Parkinson
September 5, 2011
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A review has found that the government's carbon price negotiations are founded on emissions data for solar PV that may underestimate its cost effectiveness by up to a factor of 10.

The Australian PV Association (APVA) has done analysis of the recent Productivity Commission report being used by the government, Greens and independents in negotiations about a carbon price. The APVA findings show that solar PV could be between four and 11 times more effective as a way to cut greenhouse pollution than the Commission has calculated.

The Commission claims that the cost of emissions reduction achieved via solar PV is $432-$1043/tonne CO2. According to the APVA, the true figure is $90-$95/t CO2, depending on the installation location. This discrepancy is explained by the following errors in the Commission report:

Source: Dan Cass
28 Jun 2011
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