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Sun Cable lodges application for manufacturing and assembly plant for 5B's Maverick solar array systems, that will eventually supply its own 14GW solar plans.

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TPG Telecom, Australia's third largest telco, says it will source all its electricity from renewables by 2025, Netflix focuses on carbon sequestration.

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Australia will take five years of climate inaction to COP26, with a plan for another ten. Its climate policy is flying off the rails.

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Federal government should target net-zero emissions by 2050 as “absolute minimum,” new scientific report warns, to avoid potentially insurmountable challenges to Australia.

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Calls for a moratorium on new coal mines, as a record number of new mine proposals lodged in 2020, despite a global decline in demand for coal.

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Federal Labor promises to slash EV taxes and fund community battery roll-out, in some of its first energy policies announced since the 2019 election.

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As Elon Musk demonstrates, the story of Bitcoin isn’t a sideshow to climate; it’s a central force that could drag down the accelerating pace of positive change.

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Blunt reality is that without the sort of export charges mooted by AEMC, we will end up with more zero export limits and more solar curtailment.

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Biden administration announced huge boost into offshore wind power as it extends climate ambition summit invitations to 40 world leaders, including Morrison.

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US Department of Energy aims to lower the average cost of unsubsidised solar to 2 US cents per kilowatt-hour by 2030.

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Massive $636 million solar and big battery project overcomes council objections to get green light from NSW planning authorities.

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AGL Energy's plan to build gas import terminal and reprocessing plant in Victoria's Western Port rejected due to "clear" and "unacceptable" environmental impacts.

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AGL flags a potential floating solar plant at Loy Yang and an electrothermal solar storage pilot at Liddell.

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The Federal Coalition likes to boast that Australia leads the world in wind and solar. Curious then, that no ministers have attended an opening of these facilities. Must have been busy.

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Australia's biggest coal generator may mothball or "cycle" some remaining coal units to deal with solar duck curve and changing market conditions.

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Six years after it was first mooted, AGL has accepted that it needs to split its businesses into two to cope with the transition to a renewables grid.

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CEP reveals the second of four grid-scale energy storage projects, a 150MW big battery to be built on the outer Adelaide site of the former GMH manufacturing plant.

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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull picked to lead key NSW government clean energy advisory board.

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Australia has the skills and infrastructure to support a national hydrogen economy, but first we must lead the world in finding the answer to hydrogen embrittlement.

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Queensland researchers demonstrate all-in-one chemical pathways to carbon storage, green hydrogen and construction materials in new research paper.

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