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We discuss first intervention by market operator to curtail rooftop solar, the latest installation stats, AGL’s big solar buy, and some really crap solar news.

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"Double whammy". Solar industry experts warn of potential massive spike in Australian solar module prices due to increase in materials and shipping costs.

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Australia's government is justifying climate inaction on a six-year-old document that misses the entire point of emissions reductions.

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Like wind and solar, the costs of battery storage are plummeting far faster than anyone expected.

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Once Asia's economic super powers become convinced they don’t need fossil fuel imports, they will move in that direction.

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Report by Reputex says NSW could close all its coal fired power stations and be powered by renewables by 2030 - but it needs a plan.

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NSW solar farms are performing a lot better than Queensland, Victoria and South Australia projects on the metric of spot revenue per MW of maximum capacity.

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New ANU research shows Australia needs to up the pace on new wind and solar investment, as AGL spends $152m upgrading Bayswater coal plant.

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Korea Zinc takes 30% stake in MacIntyre wind farm, part of a gigawatt-scale Queenalnd project that will supply a state government utility and a major refinery.

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We talk to Origin Energy’s head of mobility, and head of strategy, Chau Le, about the utility’s new push into electric vehicles.

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Much has been gained with the Yallourn closure deal. It would not be surprising to see other generators approaching the Government along similar lines.

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Trina Solar launches fully-owned PV tracking business Trina Tracker in bid to to capitalise on the next – potentially rocky – phase of the big solar market.

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Australia's government is about to re-activate its efforts to convince the world that it's doing enough on climate (it is not).

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Health experts call on governments to recognise climate change as a health emergency that requires urgent action – and claims more lives than Covid.

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About 10,000 South Australian households had their rooftop solar switched off on Sunday. They probably didn't even notice the intervention, and certainly not their place in Australia's grid history.

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Dirty deal? Victoria won't disclose details of 'secret' agreement with EnergyAustralia over Yallourn closure, with speculation it is paying to keep it open.

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Solar farms in Queensland say tuning inverters is solving grid problems at a fraction of the cost of synchronous condensers some project developers have been obliged to install.

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How can new coal burning projects be justified in 2021? Using the transformational powers of hydrogen and the empty promise of CCS!

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Nationals leader Michael McCormack repeated a range of climate myths on ABC's Insiders, suggesting there's a long way to go to net zero.

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Renewables supplied six times more power than gas generators over the most recent Australian summer, the Climate Council reports.

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