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One of world's best solar analysts releases her annual observations, dispelling some myths and including some home truths for the solar and battery storage industries.

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Queensland's energy plans begs the question: what is the true value of longer duration storage? And how much, really, is needed?

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Victoria says it couldn't "sit around" waiting for coal plants to close, and insists state government ownership of energy will ensure profits kept in the state.

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A raft of government and energy company announcements have changed the course of Australia's coal exit. Rystad Energy crunches the numbers.

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"This is not a government that seeks to turn back time." NZ targets 50% renewables for total final energy consumption by 2035.

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Victoria assumes more than half of the investment in its 95 per cent renewables target will be in offshore wind, with little in utility scale solar.

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Energy minister Lily D’Ambrosio on Victoria’s ambitious switch to renewables and coal exit. Plus: Labor’s Rewiring the Nation and a multitude of new wind and storage projects.

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ARENA pledges $45 million in grants for world-leading proposal to use compressed air storage in huge Broken Hill renewable micro-grid plan.

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Quinbrook and Primergy choose CATL to provide batteries for massive Gemini solar and storage project in Las Vegas, the largest of its type in the US.

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Zen Energy aims for tenfold lift in customer sales, largely through solar and battery storage, and commits to net zero Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by end of 2023.

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ARENA backs AGL study to test new "thermal storage" technologies that could be used to retrofit its ageing coal and gas turbines.

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The hugely popular Fully Charged Live "festival of electrification" will debut in Australia early next year, with a Sydney show supported by The Driven and RenewEconomy.

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Vena Energy confirms it plans a 2GW offshore wind farm in Victoria's Gippsland region with turbines up to 21MW each.

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Despite a climate-forward federal government and boosted targets, Australia is still heavily wedded to fossil fuels, both for energy and transport.

The post Fossil fuelled-Australia’s climate policies still don’t stack up against G20, says report appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Novonix has been tapped to get grant funding from the US Department of Energy as part of its strategy to build up America's battery supply chain.

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Equis returns to Australia with a portfolio of 800MW of wind projects in Tasmania and a handful of bigger battery projects in four other states.

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Solar thermal developer says it aims to establish a "CSP gigafactory" on Australian soil, after a successful trial at a pilot manufacturing plant.

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Tesla reveals big surge in battery storage deployment, which Elon Musk says will outstrip the growth in electric vehicles.

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Victoria Labor jacks up its renewable energy and net-zero emissions ambition, with promise of new government-owned energy company to deliver targets.

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German chancellor agrees to delay the closure of the nation's remaining nuclear plants. But stresses that after winter, nuclear power is "finished in Germany."

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