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Victorian Greens slam planned legislation to lift Victoria's gas moratorium, saying emissions impacts being ignored.

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Building industry experts call on federal government to tie construction sector stimulus to greener building practices, including higher standards for energy and thermal efficiency.

The post Morrison’s building boost must target efficient, sustainable housing, experts say appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fluence proposes two big batteries - each of 250MW - to upgrade the capacity between the two biggest electricity markets in Australia, NSW and Victoria.

The post Fluence proposes two big batteries to upgrade Victoria-NSW transmission lie appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NZ moves to strengthen its Emissions Trading Scheme, introducing emissions caps for the first time, but agriculture remains exempt.

The post NZ puts hard cap on emissions for first time to strengthen its trading scheme appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australians have led the world in solar installations on their rooftops, but lag way behind in terms of what they do under the roof. And it's costing them dearly.

The post Even with rooftop solar boom, households are paying dearly for what lies beneath appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Two old fossils put the case for dirty, old, and incumbent technologies. Three smart women argued environmental, economic and engineering case for a clean energy transition.

The post ABC’s QandA: Old fossils versus smart advocates of clean energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CEC report finds enormous employment opportunity from renewable energy in Australia but warns failure to address policy barriers could see jobs head in opposite direction.

The post Renewables jobs could boom to 44,000 by 2025, but only with the right policy support appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Analysis of emissions data shows that using gas as a transition fuel is dangerous in a world badly missing its climate targets.

The post Gaslighting Australia: How gas industry is driving up emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

American utility-scale energy storage developer Plus Power is to build a 185MW/565MWh battery storage facility in Hawaii that will have as its primary role to ensure that the AES coal plant – the last- remaining coal-fired generation in Hawaii – will end operations in September, 2022. The Kapolei Energy Storage project is the largest battery...

The post How a new mega battery will help Hawaii say goodbye to its last coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO seeks powers to impose minimum standards for rooftop solar, battery storage and EVs in an effort to create a single, nationally consistent set of rules.

The post AEMO pushes for minimum standards for solar, battery storage and EVs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewable energy accounts for 56 per cent of Germany's electricity supply in first five months of 2020.

The post Graph of the Day: Germany reaches 56% renewables for 2020 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A consortium of Japanese companies has transformed an abandoned golf course in Kyushu, Japan’s third-largest and south-western-most island, into a 100MW solar farm.

The post Solar hole-in-one: Abandoned Japanese golf course reborn as 100MW PV plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CSIRO battery optimisation spin-off Evergen completes successful $6m crowd investment round, to accelerate commercialisation of software platform.

The post CSIRO spin-off raises $6m to accelerate deployment of battery optimisation software appeared first on RenewEconomy.

JinkoSolar has been ranked as a Top Performer for the sixth consecutive year in the 2020 PV Module Reliability Scorecard

The post JinkoSolar recognized as top performer in PVEL/DNV GL 2020 PV module reliability scorecard for the sixth consecutive year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

10 reasons why renewable energy makes perfect sense for Australia.

The post Really Australia, it’s not that hard: 10 reasons why renewable energy is the future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Amazon looks to buy AV startup Zoox - backed by Australian billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes - in move to cut delivery costs and put it in competition with Tesla.

The post Taking on Tesla? Amazon looks to buy Cannon-Brookes-backed AV start-up Zoox appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The 200MW Sunraysia solar farm in NSW faces further delays as contractor reveals rare insight into nature of disputes that has afflicted the large scale solar industry.

The post Lawyers’ picnic, and $47m at play, as Sunraysia solar farm faces further delays appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Photon Energy notches up financial close on two NSW solar farms, the Leeton and Fivebough projects, that will install a combined 14MW in the state’s Riverina region.

The post Photon secures finance for two “merchant” solar farms in NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

After a successful phase one, Ausgrid launches second phase of household battery-based virtual power plant, with two new "aggregator" partners – ShineHub and Evergen.

The post Ausgrid seeks thousands of NSW homes to join expanded virtual power plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Taylor criticises other countries for setting ambitious emissions targets, while Australia bets on unspecified technology improvements to meet its own targets.

The post Angus Taylor says higher emissions targets ‘not necessarily good policy’ appeared first on RenewEconomy.