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New initiatives mean Morrison will now go to Biden's climate summit with $1.1 billion of promised investment, but no new emissions targets.

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Toyota's go slow on the rollout of pure battery electric vehicles appears based on the assumption of a climate catastrophe.

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The recent trend has been to relax guidelines on the safeguard mechanism, but that may soon change with a net zero emissions target.

The post Waking the sleeping dragon – why Safeguard Mechanism may soon be tightened appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The grid is making a rapid transition towards 100% renewables, but do we know for sure how to keep the grid stable without any ‘synchronous’ coal generators?

The post Batteries, solar and wind can easily maintain grid security as coal retires appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL CEO Brett Redman resigns with immediate effect, just as the country's biggest coal generator wrestles with complexity of splitting its business in two.

The post AGL boss Brett Redman resigns as Australia’s biggest emitter wrestles with asset split appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The $540 million plan will fund carbon capture and storage technology and methods for making 'clean' hydrogen out of gas or coal.

The post Morrison dodges net zero, throws cash at blue hydrogen and CCS instead appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers measure the significant untapped potential of Australian airports as ideal hosts for large-scale solar.

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At present, the distribution market PV demand is increasing year by year. According to IHS, the CAGR for distribution market of PV modules in 2020-2024 will reach 9.81%.

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Oceanex Energy hopes to develop more than 9GW of offshore and floating wind farms in Australia, and another 3GW in New Zealand.

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Acciona's plans to develop a wind energy precinct of more than 1000MW in south-west Queensland have been given the green light by the state government.

The post Gigawatt-scale Queensland wind complex gets development green light appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Clean Energy Council calls on federal government to lead a managed phase-out of Australia's coal-fired power plants, to avoid a disorderly energy transition.

The post CEC calls for managed phase out of Australia’s remaining coal generators appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland's state-owned energy generator may put its two coal plants on "standby" mode as more renewables come onto the grid.

The post Energy giant Stanwell flags coal exit as it pivots to renewables and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Amazon signs up for nine new wind and solar projects in North America and Europe, to become the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world.

The post Amazon signs up nine wind and solar farms to become world’s biggest corporate buyer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland space company Hypersonix plans to use green hydrogen produced in Brisbane to fuel zero emissions rockets.

The post Hydrogen-powered space rockets are coming to Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AGL, Origin and EnergyAustralia all back decision to ignore Morrison's 'gas led recovery' in next Integrated System Plan.

The post Major energy players back AEMO’s plan to abandon gas-led recovery modelling appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK government has announced a climate target of 78% reductions by 2035. It shines a bright light on Australia's current inaction.

The post UK’s stunning new climate target adds major pressure on Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Albanese says the opportunities created through action on climate change would have a wide-reaching benefit for the Australian economy.

The post Albanese promises “clean energy jobs revolution” in rebuke of Morrison cafe jibe appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We talk to RACQ head of policy Rebecca Michael about the electric vehicle transition in Queensland.

The post The Driven Podcast: The Sunshine state’s plan to go electric appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The latest IRENA data shows that Australia is in the number two spot of new renewables per person and number one spot for installed solar PV.

The post Solar and wind are leading fastest energy transition the world has seen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

UK and Norwegian companies to build first huge "solid sails" that could slash fossil fuel consumption in the shipping industry by nearly a third.

The post Huge solid sails could cut fossil fuel use by 30 per cent for shipping industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.