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NSW Energy minister confident he has right settings to encourage investors to drive decarbonisation of state's grid, and says responding to climate change is prudent business management.

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Bringing together key local and global energy-storage innovators, the Australian Energy Storage Conference and Exhibition (AES 2020) is returning to Adelaide. Registrations to exhibit and sponsor have opened.

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Lyon Group says it strikes a deal with leading Chinese group as it seeks to bring its solar and storage proposals to market.

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Clean Energy Council says nuclear power would need "minor miracle" to get up in Australia, and inquiry distracts from “much more pressing and worthwhile topics.”

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Federal Greens MP Adam Bandt present legislation to ban coal use by 2030 as Liberals seek to pressure Labor over internal divisions over policy.

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New AEMC blueprint ignores bulk of expert submissions and overseas experience, and may make Australia's transmissions problems worse for new generation rather then better.

The post Analysis: AEMC road map ignores advice, and could make things worse appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMC unveils complex new market signals for new wind and solar generation and network investment, but many question the design, and the rush to implement them.

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Renewable state of South Australia sets a new milestone with solar accounting for up to 80 per cent of demand on Saturday.

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Queensland approves 180MW wind farm near Biloela, taking total pipeline of wind and solar projects in the state to more than 18,000MW.

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Dyson abandoned multi-billion dollar plan to build its own “fantastic” electric vehicles in Singapore.

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Strict new standards predicted to make household battery storage "really hard, really complicated and really expensive," and will likely put a massive brake on demand.

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The influential Electrical Trades Union has demanded that the Queensland government put an immediate halt to all large scale renewable and energy projects until it has put together a “just transition plan” and a detailed energy policy. The demand from the ETU came just days after the Queensland government celebrated reaching 4GW of solar power in...

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Ships entering German port cities will have to turn off their combustion engines for the duration of their stopover and use electricity from the local grid instead.

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German cabinet settles on climate action plan which includes target of 98GW of solar by 2030, and zero emissions target for 2050.

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As part of its succession planning, the Board undertook a search process which identified Mr George as a new Director. Mr George will stand for election to the Board at the AGM in 2020 as a new independent Non-Executive Director with the unanimous support of the Board.

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Infigen says new Tesla big battery at its Lake Bonney wind farm finally energised and registered, and should be fully commissioned by end of the year.

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Coal baron Trevor St Baker has the ear of the PM and the energy minister, and he is again rattlling off dubious predictions about the energy sector.

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ARENA CEO Darren Miller hopes hydrogen can become the 'Netflix of energy', driving a fundamental shift in the energy system.

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Australia is facing numerous coal plant closures but no one really knows how much new dispatchable generation is needed to replace it.

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Victoria government backed project will trial CSIRO EV charging technology that maximises the use of rooftop solar generation, and minimises demand from the grid.

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