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FFI strikes partnership with Djibouti to explore potential green hydrogen industry
FFI partners with Djibouti to study green hydrogen options as part of a plan to establish itself as a leading global green hydrogen supplier.
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Wind generation overtakes brown coal in June, in month of new records
Wind generation overtakes brown coal in June, in a month of records that saw Victoria become first state to deliver a terawatt hour of wind in a single month.
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Amber says support for household batteries smartest way out of energy crisis
Independent retailer Amber Electric says unleashing household batteries would be a better solution to current energy crisis than a capacity mechanism.
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CleanCo names new CEO to lead renewables “growth phase”
Queensland’s publicly owned CleanCo appoints former US utility boss as new CEO.
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Price cap could return on Tuesday as coal and gas drive prices higher again
Price cap likely to return to Queensland on Tuesday as market operator seeks emergency reserves in country's most coal dependent state.
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Sun Cable names financial advisors for world’s biggest solar and battery project
Sun Cable names financial advisors to raise more than $30 billion for what will be the world's biggest solar and battery project, and the first of many.
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Marginal loss factors: Why they matter, and where they bite
An in-detail look at why MLFs are important and some of the more notable trends that are driving long-term location signals for wind and solar.
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Regional towns could be wiped out by move to net-zero. Here’s their best chance for survival
The demise of fossil fuels could prompt a boom in new green industries, but only if governments back the zero carbon transition.
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Labor welcomes doubling of coal and gas profits, but no talk of windfall tax
Labor welcomes doubling of profits for Australia's coal and gas exporters last year, despite consumers getting slugged, showing little has changed on this front despite change of government.
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Germany stops landmark mechanism that funded renewables expansion via power bills
Germany ends landmark renewables levy on consumer power prices. The surcharge helped to spur the growth of wind and solar power capacity for more than two decades.
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Small retailers issue plea for help as fossil fuel price surge claims another victim
Smaller electricity retailers issue joint plea to market regulators to stop "chain reaction" of failures as yet another energy retailer calls in administrators.
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Angus Taylor lines up against huge solar and battery project in Hume
Community group says former federal energy minister is quietly supporting opponents of a 400MW solar farm and big battery in his electorate.
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German wind giant buys into three big Australian offshore wind projects
German wind giant teams up with UK based developer to advance three offshore wind projects in Australia.
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Victoria starts momentous shift from dirty and expensive gas, but is it quick enough?
Victoria begins momentous shift from gas in a landmark roadmap to embrace electrification and energy efficiency.
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Webinar: Funding Net Zero: Green Capital for the Asia Energy Transition
Join a panel of leading experts in a broad ranging discussion about the challenges and opportunities of net zero for Asia.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Australia’s rapid transition to renewables
AEMO lays out roadmap for a rapid transition to renewables, Baringa's Alan Rai joins us to discuss the high points and the lows.
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Could an emissions reduction trajectory be baked into a capacity mechanism?
Energy ministers will decide which technologies will be eligible in a capacity mechanism, but the ESB chief says emissions cuts could be built into its design.
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“Big shift in language:” Transgrid welcomes new urgency in transmission plans
Transgrid says switch to green energy is going to accelerate, particularly after the disruption in global energy markets.
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Chubb’s big challenge is to restore confidence in Australia’s tainted carbon markets
Labor taps former chief scientist Ian Chubb with the task of restoring confidence in Australia's troubled carbon offsets regime.
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US Supreme Court curtails EPA’s power to regulate carbon pollution
Ruling by activist court doesn’t take away the EPA’s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants, but it makes federal action much harder.
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