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Trevor St Baker and Brian Flannery sell out of Vales Point coal generator at massive profit, and new buyer shows no signs of contemplating an early closure.

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Wind and solar hit new record peaks in main grid, pushing coal and fossil fuels to record lows, but curtailment also hits new high in South Australia.

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Australian Investment Council awards Pacific Equity Partners Large Cap Investment Award for investing in Intellihub and generating significant returns for investors.

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The food and livestock industry, particularly beef and dairy, face as big a climate problem as fossil fuels – but in a dramatically accelerated timeframe.

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A 1MW vertical axis floating offshore wind turbine will be given a test run in seas off Norway, its developers say.

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The cost of electricity in Australia's main grid was more than $6.7 billion in June, or around $750 per household for a single month.

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ARENA tips $47m into Australia’s first "substantial" renewable hydrogen project, and one of the largest so far in the world, putting it on track for completion in 2024.

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Fracking in the UK has multiple commercial, technical and social challenges. The biggest of all may be that the oil and gas reserves are long gone.

The post Fracking: If Liz Truss wants a UK shale gas industry, she is 280 million years late appeared first on RenewEconomy.

How can we balance community concerns and wishes with cost? It’s a challenging task – made more challenging by the urgency of the shift to renewables. 

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NSEC ministers agree to reach at least 260GW worth of offshore wind energy by 2050, more than 85% of the EU-wide target of 300GW by 2050.

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New revisions in EU woody biomass policy could see Australia take a lead role in ending the use of trees as a source of renewable energy in the future.

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Renewables share nudges new peak of 62.94 per cent, with more records to fall in coming months.

The post Renewables at record highs, fossil fuels at record low, with more to come appeared first on RenewEconomy.

South Australia closer to becoming first gigawatt scale grid in the world to run without any local fossil fuel or synchronous generation, a major milestone in transition to renewables.

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EU announces plan to cap revenue of “infra-marginal" energy producers – including wind and solar – at €180/MWh. Renewables industry not impressed.

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Zen Energy bolsters its "baseload renewables" portfolio with an "industry-first" offtake deal with one of Australia's more senior wind power projects.

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New records for distributed solar around Australia as the country’s rooftop PV output continues to eat into the fossil fuel industry’s lunch.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Solar symphonies and eating coal’s lunch appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Frontier Energy reaches agreement on critical water supplies for green hydrogen production at its Bristol Springs Renewable Energy Project.

The post “Low cost” solar hydrogen project moves a step closer, as water source secured appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Readying retired German coal plants for use during the winter in case of gas shortfalls is not economically viable for the sector, Germany’s coal industry says.

The post German coal industry says more money needed to revive plants to save gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Wind output sets a new record peak of 146 per cent of state demand in South Australia.

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Former chief scientist and current federal government advisor on low emissions technology says there is no need to include nuclear power in Australia's future energy.

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