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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.

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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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A microgrid comprising 1.2MW solar, 3.2MWh battery storage to go ahead soon on Lord Howe Island, two years after a controversial wind turbine ban brought the project to a halt.

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Was Scott Morrison right to suggest that EVs would ruin the long weekend? We decided to find out with our electric Kona.

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Spoiler alert: No. And energy minister Angus Taylor clearly hasn’t been paying attention to the history of our electricity infrastructure.

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Energy minister Angus Taylor appears to be on a one man mission to fulfil the destiny wished of him by his supporters - to stop wind and solar in their tracks.

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ACCC's Rod Sims says costs of network over-investment and solar subsidies should be pushed onto taxpayers to bring electricity prices down.

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