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Epho and Solgen: Is this the solar market consolidation Australia had to have?
AGL's purchase of Epho and Solgen is a major endorsement of the booming market and the latest sign of a period of consolidation.
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ACT flooded by proposals as suppliers jostle for role in electric bus fleet
ACT receives more than 100 expressions of interests from a range of suppliers to help deliver its 90 electric buses.
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Australia’s big fossil fuel generators are being replaced by big batteries
Australia's ageing fleet of coal and gas generators are being replaced by big batteries.
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JinkoSolar Recognized as a ´TOP BRAND PV Australia Seal 2021` by EuPD Research
Jinko Solar was awarded the ‘Top Brand PV Australia 2021’ by EuPD Research, a highly specialized European research firm.
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Storms, delays, constraints and low prices batter UK fund’s Australian solar portfolio
Foresight Solar fund hit by storms, delays, network constraints, falling power prices and poor sunshine at its Australian solar farms.
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Hungary to install solar at site of last coal plant as it fast-tracks coal exit
Hungary brings forward coal phase-out to 2025, and will replace its last coal plant with a solar farm and a gas generator.
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EnergyAustralia to close Yallourn coal plant in 2028, to build massive big battery
EnergyAustralia will close the Yallourn power station four years early, announcing one of Australia's dirtiest power stations will be shuttered in mid-2028.
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Ten years on from Fukushima, nuclear power continues to struggle with deeper problems
Ten years on from Fukushima, the problem with new nuclear remains economic: it costs too much to build.
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Snowy signs up new 90MW solar farm as part of retailing deal with BP
Snowy Hydro signs 15-year contract with Lightsource bp for a new solar farm that will help deliver 100 per cent renewable energy to the oil giant's retail outlets in NSW.
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Neoen adds huge Thunderbolt project to massive wind and solar pipeline in New England
Neoen Australia is proposing to build a 500MW wind, solar and battery hub in the NSW New England REZ – adding to huge pipeline in Barnaby Joyce’s electorate.
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Morrison finally realises momentum has shifted on climate geopolitics, still promises nothing
Scott Morrison says he knows the world has shifted on climate change, but still refuses to strengthen his own policies and targets.
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AGL has second crack at rooftop solar market in bid to catch up with energy transition
AGL Energy makes move to become largest commercial solar provider in Australia, with acquisition of two major market players, Epho and Solgen Energy Group.
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Tesla’s secret big battery revealed in Texas
Tesla might be planning another post-blackout battery launch, but unlike South Australia in 2016, Texas is already on the pathway to more storage.
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China’s Five Year Plan disappoints with “baby steps” on climate policy
President Xi offers no "big bang" to get to carbon neutrality, but others say China's massive renewables pipeline - more than 1,200 gigawatts - is cause for hope.
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Video: Gas and CCS? Australia needs to move on, and quickly
Australia’s major political parties are stuck with old energy technologies. We need them to catch up, and soon.
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Could an Australian billionaire unravel Sanjeev Gupta’s green industry vision?
The collapse of an Australian's investment empire could see Sanjeev Gupta lose a favoured financial backer, complicating his push into green steelmaking.
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Electrification: Australia is heading in the wrong direction
There is no single energy significant industry where electricity has gained market share in the past decade.
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NSW targets industrial emitters with $750 million decarbonisation push
NSW government offers $750m to shift heavy industry onto clean technologies, investing in new innovations to slash emissions and grow jobs creation.
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Transcript: The Green’s Adam Bandt interview on the Energy Insiders podcast
Here is a very lightly edited transcript of the recent interview with the Greens leader Adam Bandt on the Energy Insiders podcast.
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Australia achieves record large solar energy output on Friday
Utility scale solar output its hits record level in Australia's main grid on Friday, although it was still just half that of rooftop solar on households and business.
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