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UN boss asks all countries, including Australia, to plan for zero emissions

Wed, 2019-07-24 14:28

antonio guterres un secretary general speech climate change united nations - optimisedUN Secretary General has calls on global leaders, including Scott Morrison, to come to the Climate Action Summit with concrete plans to lift climate action.

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GE Renewables unveils components for world’s biggest wind turbine

Wed, 2019-07-24 13:38

GE haliadeGE Renewables unveils first components for its world-leading 12 MW Haliade-X offshore wind turbine.

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South Korea unveils plans for 2.1GW floating solar plant

Wed, 2019-07-24 13:36

South Korea will develop a 2.1 GW floating solar power plant which, upon completion, will be 14-times larger than the world’s largest floating project.

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Kellogg’s signs with solar farm to take NSW operations 100% renewable

Wed, 2019-07-24 13:13

Kellogg’s Australia to become the latest corporate entity to commit to sourcing the equivalent of 100 per cent of its electricity needs from renewables.

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BHP casts doubt on renewables as it commits $US400m to cut emissions

Wed, 2019-07-24 10:21

BHP coal mining climate change announcement nuclear renewables CCSBHP voices concerns about land use of renewables in establishing $US400m fund to reduce emissions across its entire value chain.

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Queensland shortlists 10 big renewable and storage projects for CleanCo contracts

Wed, 2019-07-24 08:18

acciona solar farm panels queensland-2Queensland announces 10 wind, solar and battery storage projects that will compete for contracts with newly formed CleanCo.

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Taylor grilled by Labor on emissions, says no to Barnaby’s “free” nuclear fantasy

Tue, 2019-07-23 15:34

Angus Taylor emissions increasing parliament question time - optimisedTaylor recieves repeated warnings to provide answers as the minister for reducing emissions attempts to avoid conceding he is failing his own job title.

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Yallourn’s “brown fire” future will depends on exports, and ramping ability

Tue, 2019-07-23 15:31

Yallourn is profitable, but will likely depend on exports to NSW to remain so. Meanwhile, maintenance costs will remain high and reliability will be an issue.

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Battery industry on tenterhooks, awaiting result on vote for new standard

Tue, 2019-07-23 15:22

battery storageThe ballot has closed, but the battery industry may have to wait to find out if new strict installation standards have been approved or not.

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South Australia has 10GW wind and solar in pipeline as it heads to 100% renewables

Tue, 2019-07-23 14:45

South Australia says it has 10GW of wind and solar projects now in pipeline, as it heads towards target of "net" 100% renewables, and becoming a clean energy powerhouse.

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Regulator finds AEMO made ‘intentional and avoidable’ breach of market rules

Tue, 2019-07-23 13:41

Perth regulator Western Australia AEMO WEM capacity market rules breach - optimisedAEMO issued a formal warning after "intentional" breaches of the WA electricity market rules that saw generators get paid ineligible capacity credits.

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New York signs deal for 1.7GW of offshore wind
 as it moves to 100% renewables

Tue, 2019-07-23 13:39

New York announces country’s largest renewable energy procurement in US as it moves to meet the country's most ambitious 100% renewable energy target.

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Kenya moves closer to 100% renewables with completion of Africa’s biggest wind farm

Tue, 2019-07-23 13:34

The 310MW Lake Turkana Wind Power project is Africa’s largest, and will help Kenya reach its 100% renewables target by 2020.

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Purchase your tickets to the 2019 EV Conference

Tue, 2019-07-23 12:18

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Solar peaks at more than 20% of demand six days in row in mid-winter

Tue, 2019-07-23 11:41

Share of rooftop and utility scale solar peak at more than 20% of Australia grid demand six days in a row - in middle of winter.

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Woman drives Tesla around Australia in 80 days, on ground-breaking solo trip

Tue, 2019-07-23 11:13

A Gold Coast woman has completed a solo trip around Australia in an electric car, driving 17,000km in 80 days in her Tesla Model S.

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Greens push bill to prohibit coal funding, pre-empting UNGI money for Vales Point

Mon, 2019-07-22 15:30

Adam Bandt Richard Di Natale Greens energy climate policy coal prohibition - optimisedGreens re-introduce legislation to ban government funds for coal while government considers channelling funds to upgrade coal generators under Taylor's UNGI scheme.

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Australia’s largest environmental markets trader forms with merger

Mon, 2019-07-22 15:27

Two of Australia’s largest Renewable Energy Certificate Agents - Green Energy Trading and National Carbon Bank of Australia - have now joined forces to further strengthen their position as Australia’s leading environmental trader.

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Who is going to manage and control rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles?

Mon, 2019-07-22 15:09

rooftop solar power pv tariffAEMO and ENA proposed "hybrid" system to monitor and manage distributed energy - rooftop solar, batteries and EVs - and look to the positives of the energy transition.

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Goldwind and UNSW Sydney strengthen collaborative partnership

Mon, 2019-07-22 14:59

goldwindGoldwind and UNSW Sydney celebrated the award of Goldwind’s research funding for the UNSW Digital Grid Futures Institute, and the opening of the Goldwind – UNSW Joint Laboratory at University’s Sydney campus.

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