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First concrete poured for 1,500 steel towers in renewable superhighway
First concrete poured to support first of 1,500 steel towers that will make up Australia’s largest electricity transmission project.
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Modern slavery: The grim problem facing Australia wind, solar and battery supply chains
Report identifies risks of modern slavery in clean energy supply chains, and calls for Australia to focus on its own minerals and manufacturing opportunities.
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Multi gigawatt wind and solar tender flops, undermined by “secret” price cap
A multi-gigawatt tender for wind and solar capacity in Spain flops due to a "secret" price cap that failed to take into account rising costs.
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Queensland pledges to make its own wind turbines amid boom in giga-scale projects
Queensland says it wants to establish a local wind turbine manufacturing industry to supply its new giga-watt scale projects.
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Australian gravity storage hopeful eyes international market after pilot project
Australian gravity storage hopeful signs MoU with global engineering firm GHD which it says is already opening doors in Australia and overseas.
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Australia’s biggest wind project to double in size to create first 2GW precinct
Australia's biggest wind project - already at more than 1GW - will double in size to become one of the biggest onshore wind precincts in the world.
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Court ruling on Clive Palmer’s enormous coal mine heralds new era for climate cases
Queensland court rules Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project should not go ahead, due to impacts on climate, environment and human rights.
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Nine Australian miners poised to ride the green minerals wave
These Aussie miners are expanding their global positions upstream and downstream to become essential suppliers of lithium, copper, nickel, rare earths, and graphite.
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“Goodbye to them:” Victoria votes to end coal and make radical shift to renewables
"S-E-C, S-E-C." Victorians reject fossil fuel dogma and chant name of the public utility that will lead the transition from dirty brown coal to renewables.
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First stage of Australia’s biggest wind, solar and battery project signs grid connection
Connection deal signed for part of the first wind stage of what will be the country's biggest wind, solar and battery project.
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Australia’s first wind, solar and hydro storage project just got a lot bigger
Genex boosts the wind component of what will be the country's biggest hybrid project by almost a third, and chooses a turbine maker.
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World’s biggest offshore wind turbine rolls off production line
Chinese renewables giants Goldwind and China Three Gorges say they have produced the world's largest offshore wind turbine, at 16MW per-unit capacity.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia’s carbon capital has a transition plan
Australia’s carbon capital has a 10-year plan to transition to clean energy. Next Economy’s Amanda Cahill, who helped guide the Gladstone council, explains how and why.
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First Australian graphite pilot plant marks new supply source for battery makers
First graphite pilot plant in Australia, located in the heart of Western Australia's coal centre, marks big step for key component of lithium batteries.
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Landmark first trade in peak demand certificates takes load off electricity market
Core Markets says it has brokered the first ever trade in certificates for a New South Wales market scheme designed to reduce electricity demand over summer months.
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Battery storage and big solar button keep lights on and dampen critics in South Australia
Interim report into South Australia separation event points to key roles played by battery storage and the controls over rooftop solar.
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Why Australia’s biggest gas kettle never stood a chance against wind and solar
Torrens Island B gas generator is just a giant kettle, the gas equivalent of the dirty Latrobe Valley coal burners, and equally useless to a grid transitioning to renewables.
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Victoria’s election is a referendum on fossil fuels vs deflationary renewables
Labor's climate and renewables targets are world-leading, while the Coalition's gas plan relies on the fossil industry behind the crisis that is smashing us right now.
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How 2022 has substantially, and favourably, changed the global climate outlook
Recent policy changes, globally, have shifted the scales heavily in favor of clean energy technologies. The race to meet Paris climate targets is on.
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Plans unveiled for Australia’s biggest vanadium flow battery and gigawatt factory
Plans unveiled for biggest vanadium redox flow battery in Australia and for a local manufacturing facility to tap into country's rich vanadium reserves.
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