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Danish renewables player enters Australian market with mandate for wind, solar and battery projects.

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With Hawaii’s decarbonization deadline approaching, the utility is coming up with innovative ideas to address the evening peak.

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Queensland announces another big battery, this time a 200MWh installation next to the Kogan Creek coal generator, the biggest in the country.

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New study shines a light on the problem of rooftop solar curtailment and how some households are being affected by it much more than others.

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A Victorian wind farm, proposed to be built in a pine plantation gets planning green light, but without a planned battery component.

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Neometals invests in University of California spinoff focused on a long-life, fast-charging lithium battery that utilises a vanadium-based anode technology.

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There will always be a need for some form of human oversight of bidding behaviour, even with "the rise of the machines."

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Another new solar farm has begun sending power to the grid in New South Wales, with the largest facility in northern NSW recording its first output.

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NSW seeks expressions for interest from wind developers to build renewable energy stations in state forests.

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Australia given a fail-grade for climate policies in new BloombergNEF assessment, after being one of the few G20 countries actually going backwards in the last year.

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Forrest strikes huge plan with German energy giant E.ON to produce five million tonnes of green hydrogen a year by 2030, using Australian renewables.

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The 2022 federal budget slammed for prioritising fossil fuels over climate action, labelled "bad economic policy".

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The Morrison government will cut spending on climate action, with clean energy and electric vehicles neglected. Fossil fuel subsidies get a boost.

The post Climate spending cut as Frydenberg delivers empty budget for clean energy and EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Angus Taylor's attempt to quell public concern about rising fuel prices and global oil shortages are misleading.

The post FactCheck: Energy minister Angus Taylor misleads on oil reserves in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO punctures Angus Taylor's claims of a ‘European style’ gas shortage, saying switch to renewables and electrification will slash gas demand.

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Northern Territory government further backs Sun Cable's massive $30 billion renewables export project with passage of new Solar Project Bill.

The post “It will be built:” NT legislates to help deliver world’s biggest solar and battery project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There is good evidence that far too much bargaining power for transmission lies with the network provider and not enough with the affected community.

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Fluence's AI-enabled bidding platform to be used to optimise trading at another three solar farms in NSW.

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Woodside invests in US concentrated solar technology with view to power, heat and hydrogen opportunities.

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NSW government gets proposals for nearly 6GW of green electrolyser projects from 21 different parties for Hunter and Illawarra hydrogen hubs.

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