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Elon Musk recounts "insane” first quarter for the EV maker, with half of Tesla's global deliveries carried out in the final 10 days of the reporting period.

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China's coal generation costs are similar to Australia - and they are not cheap.

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Tesla Model X owner drives 908km in one day using AC chargers on mission to prove EVs can do Australia's vast distances.

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Musk says Tesla battery storage business expected to grow 300% after being crimped by the focus on Model 3 production.

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Consortium of 13 water corporations forge major renewable energy off-take deal that will supply between 20-50% of each of their total electricity needs, and lower water bills for consumers.

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Two UK studies have looked into what it would take for more consumers to switch to electric vehicles. The answer can be summed up in one word...

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Tesla to install more efficient drive trains to extend range of new Models S and X to near 600kms, and says new batteries will be able to last “one million miles”.

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The global balance of power is going to be completely changed by decarbonisation, and the burden of saving the world will fall disproportionately on Asia.

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The South Korean Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy has tabled a new draft energy master plan that increases the nation’s ambition to move away from coal and towards renewable energy.

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Photo of a coal miner on one poster was actually a lifelong Democrat who died of black lung disease.

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Solar is credited with taking the biggest chunk out of grid emissions over summer, as Coalition and Murdoch media hit "repeat" on the carbon scare campaign.

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Fresh from its landmark deal on the Bomen solar farm, Renew Estate has filed a development application for a huge solar farm and battery in NSW.

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The argument for locating synchronous condensers with wind and solar farms is not convincing, and may make the grid weaker because they are being installed in the wrong place.

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Beryl solar farm near Mudgee - which is contracted to the NSW government's north west Sydney Metro project - begins production

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Bob Brown's march on Adani's coal mine coincides with yet another report underlying fact that renewables are cheaper than coal, and that the clean energy transition can and should happen quickly.

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US study shows battery storage can compete with gas. But in Australia there is no federal policy to help that happen.

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There’s about $3.5 trillion of revenue each year from the “mine mouth” value of global coal, gas and oil sales. All of that has to go away, and about half of it needs to be gone in the next 12 years.

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Under an Early Contractor Involvement arrangement, Genex and UGL will work together to finalise the EPC and Operation and Maintenance contracts and complete the remaining development works required to reach financial close in June 2019 and commence construction in July 2019.

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Australians agree the nation ‘is facing a climate emergency’ requiring emergency action and that, in response, governments should “mobilise all of society” like they did during the world wars.

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First production delivered from Murra Warra wind farm near Horsham in Victoria, that will deliver cheap electricity to Telstra and other corporate buyers.

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