The CEFC operates like a traditional financier. We work collaboratively with co-financiers and project proponents to seek ways to secure financing solutions for the clean energy sector.

We provide and develop financing solutions across the clean energy sector spanning renewable energy, low-emissions technologies and energy efficiency. We seek to catalyse and leverage funding for commercialisation and deployment of clean energy technologies necessary for Australia's transition to a carbon constrained economy.

Using a full range of financial instruments, the CEFC co-finances and invests, directly and indirectly, in clean energy projects and technologies.

The CEFC focuses on projects and technologies at the later stages of development which have a positive expected rate of return and have the capacity to service and repay capital. We can also look at earlier stage projects which have significant support and a risk profile appropriate for CEFC.

Typically we expect a private sector co-financier will participate with the CEFC to support projects. This demonstrates that the risk profile to be assumed by the CEFC is broadly market based.

To support the sector and achieve its purpose the CEFC may provide concessional finance but does not make grants. The nature and terms of such concessional finance takes into account the external benefits we assess the project generates. Concessional finance may be in the form of lower pricing, higher risk and/or longer duration.

One of the CEFC's core objectives is to address financial impediments that reduce the availability of private sector finance. The CEFC seeks out innovative structures to address such impediments which prevent investments in the clean energy sector.

Our commercial approach  means that we assess investments on a case-by-case basis, looking to provide funds on the least generous terms possible for a project to proceed (i.e. as close to market terms as possible).

The CEFC is engaging with a range of partners and works with relevant Australian Government programs.

http://www.cleanenergyfinancecorp.com.au/what-we-do.aspx

From Independent Australia

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A grubby tactic from Labor? Really? Exposing what Jaymes Diaz does for work is suddenly a grubby tactic?

Maybe the “people smuggler in a suit” tag is appropriate given the Liberal spokesmen’s reaction — they clearly didn’t want the public knowing about what Jaymes does to earn a quid if they consider it grubby.

Anyway, it turns out I was wrong and for that I humbly apologise — I wouldn’t want anybody to have the wrong impression of Jaymes.

You see, Jaymes isn’t actually an immigration agent. Well, not any more, at least. Well, on paper, anyway…

Jaymes actually ceased to be a licensed immigration agent in June. That’s not June 2005, nor June 2010; not even June last year. I mean, he ceased to be licensed in June this year, a couple of months ago — just as the campaign was kicking off, around the time of his pre-selection.

Does all this smell a bit fishy to you? It does to me.

These things are what we know of Jaymes Diaz, it is what we don’t know that maybe we should fear.

It has become quite clear that Jaymes Diaz has been told to stay away from press by those running the Abbott campaign. This begs the question;

What does Tony Abbott know about Jaymes Diaz that he doesn’t want us to know?

You would think that in such a marginal seat, it would be in the best interests of the Liberal Party to have your candidate come out and redeem himself after such a spectacular screw up. Instead, he is being hidden away under a rock somewhere so that nobody can learn what goes through his mind other than the sound of crickets.

Yesterday, I noted that the Diaz campaign office has seen a couple of changes.

In my last post, I commented on the graffiti on the signage outside his office. Shortly afterwards, signage appeared there with Jaymes’s name and the Liberal party logo.

Yesterday, that was gone; so too was the corflute that was on the inside of the glass door which was his office entry.

Maybe this is due to the brothel next door distracting from the campaign. I mean, it’s probably not a good look for a campaign when the candidate is a Filipino immigration agent and his campaign office is right next door to a brothel full of Filipino workers.

Some have queried whether in fact Jaymes Diaz may have even withdrawn from the election. A valid question indeed, given his apparent disappearance or abduction by aliens.

What we do know is that voters are being asked to take the suddenly faceless Diaz at face value.

Voters are being asked to put their trust in a candidate who the Liberal Party clearly have no faith in whatsoever. He is not even showing any confidence in himself, so why should voters have any in him?

To the voters in Greenway, I say ensure you put Jaymes Diaz last on your voting paper.

If Tony Abbott cared for your electorate he would have done more to ensure you had a candidate that was worth allowing to speak or show up to media events. Tony Abbott has duped you and sold you out to local branch-stackers.

The people of Greenway deserve better.

Much better.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/2013/politics/finding-faceless-jaymes-diaz/

as IA points out:

On the one hand, there is Michelle Rowland — the current sitting member; someone who has worked tirelessly and brought a great deal to the electorate, including securing and delivering Greenway as the first Sydney area to see the NBN rolled out.

AND:

However, this is not the person, Jaymes Diaz, the Liberal Party wanted representing them in Greenway — oh no. Tony Abbott went to great effort to ensure that Jaymes Diaz lost the pre-selection, throwing up all sorts of other candidates from State MP’s to burnt out old rockers.

West Australian voters are set to return to the polls, after the High Court ruled the September 7 election result for the Senate to be "absolutely void".

The finding comes after an electoral debacle involving two recounts and the loss of 1370 ballot papers by the Australian Electoral Commission.

It supports the damning judgement handed down by the High Court on Tuesday, in which it said that the loss of votes was of such a scale that it "could not be dismissed as irrelevant or trivial".

"The number of ballot papers lost far exceeded the margin between the candidates at the determinative point in the count," the court summary stated.

ABC election analyst Antony Green described the court ruling as a "blow" to the Abbott government and its three WA Senators who are currently elected.

"A re-election could put one of the Liberal's seats in doubt," Mr Green said on Thursday.

"If the Liberal Party were to lose a seat at the re-election, it would weaken the government's position in the Senate and strengthen the hand of the alliance of minor parties that has developed around the Palmer United Party".

The WA debacle has raised serious questions about the AEC's counting and security processes and its ability to ensure voters' trust in the democratic system.

An independent investigation by former federal police commissioner Mick Keelty was unclear about what happened to the lost votes.

MPs familiar with the investigation were aghast at the lack of security and "lax" AEC processes exposed by the report.

"Once ballot papers were identified as missing, it became impossible to precisely determine the will of the Western Australian electorate," Mr Green said.