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A new poll suggests a growing complacency about Australia's climate inaction.

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Costs of producing solar are falling well below coal, which might be one reason why fossil fuel incumbents are trying to cash in while they can.

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VEPC report skewers one of the key arguments used in case for solar export tax: that rooftop PV is a play-thing for the well-to-do.

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Government warns Russia is building more coal export infrastructure, increasing supply to Asia as demand threatens to take a sharp downwards dive.

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Barnaby Joyce urged to back $467m plan to boost community ownership of wind and solar projects because it will benefit farmers and regions.

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TasNetworks says bigger MarinusLink project will deliver the greatest benefits for consumers, especially under a rapid transition to clean energy.

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Latest Energy Consumers Australia national survey offers some interesting insight on which households are thinking of quitting gas and what Australians think of smart meters.

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ACCC report puts economic benefits of rooftop solar up in lights. But where are those bill savings coming from? And what does the answer mean for future solar homes?

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Coalition's 198 page Intergenerational Report dedicates 119 words to climate mitigation, and says almost nothing about the risks of global warming.

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Germany fast tracks climate targets in response to court ruling on intergenerational justice. But left wing parties insist trajectory is still too slow.

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Australian battery maker announces fund-raising round to leverage increasing customer interest in its zinc bromine flow technology, including for grid-scale applications.

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Collector wind farm gets the all-clear to run at full 227MW capacity, after passing final hold point tests.

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Scott Morrison's defining failure as prime minister is his inability to treat any crisis as urgent. That has caused failure for climate and Covid.

The post Scott Morrison’s climate and Covid19 policy: It’s not a race appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Resistance is not futile, as Alan Finkel might have us believe. There are so many reasons why climate action can and must go much faster.

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UK government has made historic climate promises in the past year, for which it deserves credit. But it has been too slow to follow these with delivery.

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Adani's Carmichael project struck coal this week, 10 years behind schedule. It must now try to flog one of the dirtiest of fossil fuels to a world that has moved on.

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AEMC moves to reject bid by large-energy market incumbents to centralise the control of medium-scale wind and solar projects.

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A new discussion paper proposes an alternative model for the electricity supply chain it calls the democratic grid. Effectively, it flips the old centralised model upside down.

The post Designing DERtopia: How do we get to a decentralised, democratic grid from here? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

“So many opportunities”. Anika Molesworth represents farmers who want action on climate. But Barnaby is back. Plus: Bidding wars in electricity markets.

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Morrison’s problems on climate policy, hard enough before this week, have just increased substantially. As has the internal dilemma the Nationals face on the issue.

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