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Bango Wind Farm near Yass will use some of the largest wind turbines deployed in Australia, as developer CWP land finance for project.

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New analysis finds shift to EVs and driverless autonomous vehicles could boost Australia's GDP by up to $92bn by 2050, by boosting productivity and cutting insurance costs.

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Alinta sees a quick pay-back for its ground-breaking grid-scale battery at Newman, where it is backing up the gas generators, saving fuel costs and lifting reliability.

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Alinta CEO Jeff Dimery on record profits, record low prices for wind energy, the economics of battery storage and the early exit of coal generators.

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Alinta ramps up renewables push, says falling costs will force coal to close early and that change in coming rapidly to the grid.

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West Australian AEVA members initiate a "Plasmaball Run" challenge to get to Esperance as quick as they can by electric car, using whatever charging means they can.

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Clean Energy Regulator names Coalition's Abbott-era safeguard mechanism as top compliance concern for coming year, in crackdown on emissions reporting by big polluters.

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Australian Energy Market Operator data shows rooftop solar pushing down demand in daytime hours and reducing emissions.

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Carnegie Clean Energy launches $5.5m share offer, in first step to resuming trade on ASX, and commercialising its CETO wave power technology.

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AEMO seeks bids for emergency reserves as it prepares for another hot summer, and as coal plant outages in Victoria and Queensland jump dramatically.

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The Company attributed the 17.6% (YOY) increase in revenues primarily to the increase of electricity production sales and the expansion of its proprietary portfolio of PV power plants in Hungary by 11.6 MWp, the engineering business in Australia, and PV technology trading. 

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Chevron finally gets carbon capture project up and running at Gorgon after years of delays.

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Federal and NSW Governments establish taskforce to examine options for Liddell closure that's set to reignite pro-coal push.

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Rapid spread of home batteries in Germany brings European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to new research.

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Tilt still plans big battery at Snowtown wind complex, but appears to have gone cool on addition of 44MW solar plant.

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Snowy Hydro’s Gordon Wymer goes into the fine details of the proposed Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme. Plus. The regulator’s power play on wind farms.

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Clean Energy Regulator investigation sees Brisbane plumber sentenced to 4.5 years jail for falsely claiming to have installed more than 400 solar heat pumps.

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The IPCC's latest special report on climate change paints a stark future for the world's agricultural sector.

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Sunverge, the provider of an industry leading Distributed Energy Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, today announced an $11 million capital raise.

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ib vogt GmbH ‘ib vogt’ today announced that it has executed a grid connection agreement with Essential Energy for its 109 MWp Sebastopol Solar Farm in the Riverina, NSW

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