Whether you want to call it non-renewable funding or a cut, that doesn't matter in my books, and it won't matter to women in court who receive our help".
As the media and renewables industry tries to figure out exactly what the renewables fund will mean, Lumsden is enthusiastic about the way things look.
"The governments are not going to support this forever; over the next three years the industry needs to show it can stand up and deliver and be more cost effective than today," said Tom Murley, who runs a $1 billion renewables fund at the private equity firm HgCapital in London.
The Senate should oppose the government's proposal to cut renewable energy funding," the report concluded.
Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has pledged to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord, dismantle the Clean Power Plan, slash renewable energy funding and somehow prop up the ailing US coal industry.
Following the government's changes to renewable energy funding, it subsequently said it was reducing prices by 3.2%.
Solar Mosaic is a kickstarter for renewable energy, funding community projects by selling solar "tiles" to supporters.
Abbott replied: "If you take for instance the irrigation scheme that they're very committed to, not only do you have the asset recycling fund, you've got the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, you've got various renewable energy funds that the commonwealth already has and these are all potentially available to help projects like this to go ahead".
He said there could be "several hundred megawatts" of new renewable capacity funded by a coming boom in Irish data centres.
The only major federal "renewable energy fund" is administered by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency Arenaa), which the Abbott government has also unsuccessfully sought to abolish.
