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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft: A guide
Australian developer hires energy market veteran to drive DAC project
Energy Insiders Podcast: Can Australia break its wind and solar investment drought?
PowAR chief executive Geoff Dutaillis talks about big wind projects, battery storage, the ESB’s new rules and connection problems.
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Victoria greenlights six grid upgrades to act as wind and solar shock absorbers
Victorian government greenlights three new network upgrades and synchronous condensers so it can host more wind and solar.
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Suntech to only sell modules through single channel in Australia
Suntech Australia Official Statement.
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Finance firms plan to close coal plants in Asia
EnergyAustralia counts cost of Yallourn coal dramas in loss-making half
EnergyAustralia reports on a challenging six months that included forking out $65 million – and counting – to address its ongoing Yallourn coal mine problems in Victoria.
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COP26 'should be hybrid event' says former climate chief Figueres
CP Daily: Monday August 2, 2021
Reforestation hopes threaten global food security, Oxfam warns
Over-reliance on tree-planting to offset carbon emissions could push food prices up 80% by 2050
Governments and businesses hoping to plant trees and restore forests in order to reach net-zero emissions must sharply limit such efforts to avoid driving up food prices in the developing world, the charity Oxfam has warned.
Planting trees has been mooted as one of the key ways of tackling the climate crisis, but the amount of land needed for such forests would be vast, and planting even a fraction of the area needed to offset global greenhouse gas emissions would encroach on the land needed for crops to feed a growing population, according to a report entitled Tightening the net: Net zero climate targets implications for land and food equity.
Continue reading...Australian-invented thermal storage start-up completes $8m investment raise
MGA Thermal to scale up production of thermal energy storage blocks after securing $8 million in early investment.
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UK renewables beat fossil fuels over calendar year for first time in 2020
Renewable energy sources in UK generated more electricity in 2020 than fossil fuels, a first for the country.
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Complicated, costly and downright frustrating: Aussies keen to cut emissions with clean energy at home get little support
Blow hards: Australia’s best performing wind farms in record month
More than a dozen wind farms posted capacity factors above 50 per cent in a record month for wind output in July.
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BHP expands solar contract, in wind turbine push as it boosts green nickel plan
BHP, boosted by its recent Tesla supply deal, says it is looking to install wind turbines to help power its nickel operations in Western Australia.
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Vestas secures turbine contract for next stage of Crookwell wind farm
Vestas to supply and install 16 turbines for the Crookwell 3 wind farm, putting the NSW project on track to start generating power in 2022.
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UK investment firm unveils $95m entry into Australian solar and battery market
London-listed investment fund buys two Australian solar farms and plans one and two hour battery storage facilities at multiple sites.
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