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Solar offers the cheapest and quickest option to cut emissions in the net 10 years. We just need to build more of it, and connect more of it.

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Australian concentrated solar and hydro storage technology outfit RayGen Resources claims Norwegian giant as major new investor.

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Morrison has ceded control of Australia's climate policies to Joyce's Nationals, and didn't even ask them to support an increased 2030 target.

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We don’t need new taxes, hydrogen, CCS or a “gas-led recovery”. But we do need the federal government to either get involved or get out of the way.

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Canadian pension fund takes 49% stake in FRV Australia, including huge development pipeline of solar and battery storage projects.

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Senate committee endorses offshore wind bill, a key stepping stone to several huge project proposals that could help kick coal out of system.

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As Nationals MPs met to see if they could make coal great again, solar delivered more than half of grid demand for first time, and coal output hit record low.

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Proposed planning amendments seek to limit solar and wind farm development within 10km of certain NSW regional city centres, or within 5km of residential land.

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Morrison bows to pressure and will go to Glasgow, but the Nationals will decide this weekend what policies Morrison will be allowed to pack.

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Transgrid’s Jesse Steinfeld and Eva Hanly on why a rapid transition to renewables is possible. Plus, Andrew Forrest.

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Coles inks deals with Origin, Acciona and Engie to source large-scale generation certificates to seal its target of 100 pct renewables.

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The NSW government has drawn up the proposed map of the New England renewable energy zone, which will host 8GW of wind, solar and storage.

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"That's not climate denial, this is climate denial". Australia's climate policies exposed to the world in parody billboard in Times Square.

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Andrew Forrest chooses US based Plug Power to build massive hydrogen Gigafactory in Queensland, the first of "tens" of such projects planned for Australia.

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Vestas promises to make wind turbines full recyclable, while Vattenfall bans used turbine blades from landfill.

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Canadian energy giant ATCO says it is making progress with a 2,600MWh pumped hydro project near Bathurst, which it hopes to gain a spot in the first renewable energy zone in NSW to go to tender. The Central West Pumped Hydro (CWPH) project will have a capacity of 325MW, and eight hours storage, or a […]

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New Bighorn solar farm in Colorado will enable the neighbouring steel plant to become the first in the world to be largely powered by solar.

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Australia again ranked amongst the worst for climate action, lagging behind on renewables uptake, EV adoption and fossil fuel phase-out.

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A new Australian sleep study finds residents living near a wind farm much more likely to blame road traffic, or snoring partners, for disturbed sleep.

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Join a panel of leading experts and businesses that are taking action now to find out what we need to do in this second webinar of the Energy Transformed series.

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