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Massive $300M renewable hydrogen project secures investment funding set to accelerate Australia's green hydrogen capabilities.

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Australia's emissions in 2019 fell to their lowest level in four years, but we are still a long way from the cuts needed to meet the Paris Agreement targets.

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The 57MW Cherry Tree wind farm near Seymour delivers first power to the grid to grid in Victoria, just under two months after last of the project’s turbines were installed.

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Angus Taylor again refuses to details of advice to government about energy and emissions policies, refusing a RenewEconomy FOI request.

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Abu Dhabi Power Corp lays claim to “world’s lowest tariff” for solar power, with competitive bids for 2GW Al Dhafra project setting a price at roughly $A0.02/kWh.

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Simec Atlantis has completed the installation of mammoth tidal stream turbine, boasting a rotor diameter of 18 metres, in the Zhoushan archipelago in China.

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Energy minister Angus Taylor said "too much" wind and solar would push up prices. Experience, and new modelling, shows the opposite is true.

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Great Britain has run for a new record of 18 days, six hours and 15 minutes without burning coal to generate electricity – and counting – as the coronavirus lockdown cuts demand by nearly 20%.

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More big falls in cost of wind, solar and storage mean they are cheapest form of new energy generation nearly everywhere in the world, and particularly in Australia.

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China PV manufacturer claims new industry benchmark with recently launched Vertex series of panels notching up peak power output of 515.8Wp during independent testing.

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US-based 8minute Solar Energy boosts development pipeline to 18GW-plus with 3GW of new large-scale PV this month alone, says storage could be added throughout.

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First electric bus built in Victoria has been given expert review by bus expert Paul Aldridge, and he is giving it the thumbs up.

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Snowy 2.0 tops a list of projects to be fast-tracked through the planning system, as the NSW government looks for major construction stimulus opportunities.

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AEMO flags changes to Integrated System Plan after seeing cost of battery storage fall sharply, and acknowledging cost of new transmission, pumped hydro and gas plants has jumped.

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Transgrid CEO Paul Italiano discusses new upgrade and the challenge - putting square pegs in round holes - of negotiating Australia’s complex regulatory regime.

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QUT researchers say using diamond nanothread bundles to store energy could offer a safer, more stable and three-times more energy-dense alternative to li-ion batteries.

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ARENA launches consultation on new bioenergy strategy for Australia as Angus Taylor looks for a green way to boost Australia's fuel security.

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AER fast-tracks approval for $218M upgrade to NSW-QLD interconnector to strengthen electricity supplies in a post-Liddell grid.

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Resources minister leaps on industry funded report that clear fracking of long term pollutants, but did not study impacts on human health or greenhouse emissions.

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Wind and solar could play key role in the future of Australia's aluminium industry, particularly as dependence on coal becomes a reliability rather than an asset.

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