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An extraordinary week has confirmed nearly all Australia's coal generators will be gone in little more than a decade. Here are the five big highlights.

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It’s becoming ever more likely that 100% renewable electricity in Australia’s electricity grid could be achieved by the end of the decade.

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Australia's Quinbrook has locked in big profits from the sale of a US wind, solar and storage company it bought as a start-up five years ago.

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Two gas pipelines are haemorrhaging methane – a greenhouse gas more potent than CO2 – into the atmosphere via the Baltic Sea. What are the consequences?

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Australia's energy market rule maker supports doubling of administrated electricity price cap as a key consumer protection mechanism in a volatile market.

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High thermal coal prices are a double-edged sword for miners, signalling the perfect time to reinvest in Australia’s critical minerals opportunity.

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Gelion launches production of its “safe and durable” Endure batteries at a newly repurposed manufacturing facility in Western Sydney.

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EnergyCo releases draft declaration of key NSW REZ that attracted almost 40GW of renewable energy storage projects, including offshore wind.

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FRV Australia confirms $7 million in funding from the Victorian government to build the Terang big battery with grid forming inverters.

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New analysis finds Bitcoin as damaging to the planet as some of the world’s most dirtiest industries, including beef, gas and oil. But an answer could be in the ether.

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A $1.4m floating solar plant – Australia's biggest yet – is being installed in Warrnambool as part of a government deal with state water corporations.

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BNEF questions economics and emissions savings of using green ammonia to co-fire Japanese coal plants, one of the big target markets for Australian companies.

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For the first time, the conversion efficiency of four-terminal perovskite/silicon tandem devices with certified top cell has passed 30 per cent.

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AGL Energy's plan to quit coal power generation a decade ahead of schedule means a much bigger and faster pivot to renewables. How will it work?

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ARENA launches grants program offering funds to companies in hard-to-abate sectors to integrate renewables and energy efficiency technologies.

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AGL says it will close its last coal fired power plant, Loy Yang A in Victoria, a decade ahead of schedule, and fast-track its shift to renewables.

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Queensland energy minister tells the Energy Insiders podcast the plan to switch from coal to renewables was driven by climate impacts and consumer demand.

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Energy minister Mick de Brenni outlines how Queensland will make the switch from coal to 80 per cent renewables. Plus: Victoria’s storage target, and the latest from AGL.

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The pace at which the defense of coal is falling by the wayside is extraordinary. Even Queensland, the state seen as the last hold out, has now mapped its exit.

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Grok Ventures nominates four independent directors to AGL board, including the former heads of Tesla Energy in Australia and the ESB.

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