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The Queensland Government and Adani have issued each other new deadlines as both seek to expedite coal mine approvals

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Network operator Ausgrid seeking proposals to expand its virtual power plant, targeting the estimated 5,000 batteries within its network and help defray investment costs.

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The Labor leadership contest shapes up as a battle for the future of climate policy and as contest between pragmatism and ambition.

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Gold miner GBM Gold plans 60MW solar farm, including a floating solar element, on old evaporation ponds near Bendigo.

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Deloitte seeks expressions of interest for three large solar and battery storage projects owned by Lyon Group companies.

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Declaring a "climate emergency" – and developing a climate emergency plan – is the only strategy that matches ambition to the scale of the problem.

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Developers of 35MW solar farm in Queensland - backed by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes - taking Palaszczuk government to court over its new rules governing large-scale solar installations.

The post Queensland solar rules head to Supreme Court, as developers fight back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As campaigners and political parties digest elections results, the Adani mine has been labelled as a proxy war, and a failed campaign to engage rural Queensland voters about the future.

The post Why Adani is a proxy war and campaigners need to focus on transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

JinkoSolar won the Intersolar Award 2019 in the Photovoltaics category for its Swan bifacial module with transparent backsheet from DuPont.

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Adani's flagship solar project in Australia effectively mothballed because of issues meeting generation performance standards.

The post Adani’s flagship solar project in Australia stalled over connection issues appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Is Australia’s clean energy transition about to come to a crashing halt, or just hit a pause as the Coalition turns focus to coal? Clean Energy Council’s Kane Thornton discusses Morrison’s big win.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: What’s the future for renewables in Australia? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Spanish renewables group Acciona adds organic solar PV panels to towers of wind turbines and may add batteries too.

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In the first article of this series on Hawaii, we described some of the projects that have been built. This article looks at the three key drivers of renewable energy in the state; policy, economics and the need for resilience. Policy As mentioned in that article, the state has a goal of 100% renewables by 2045. ...

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Australia's Redflow tapped to supply 100kWh of its ZBM2 zinc bromine flow batteries for a solar and electric vehicle smart grid project in China.

The post Redflow cracks China battery market, with deal on EV charging station appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Election means Australia’s electric vehicle industry – and consumers – will have to wait at least another 12 months for federal government to deliver EV strategy.

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W.A. government names economist, energy regulation expert Stephen Edwell as chair of taskforce to lead state's shift to renewables, EVs – and its exit from coal.

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Coalition digs in for a fight for coal, as speculation grows on whether Taylor and Price will continue in key portfolios, and who might replace them.

The post What to expect from Coalition: Coal, coal, coal and a battle over NEG appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Share market surges, but price of renewable energy certificates and Australian carbon credits fall as clean energy transition is delayed.

The post Environment markets suffer as Coalition win kills emissions, renewable targets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We may still get to 50 per cent renewables by 2030, even with the re-election of the Morrison government.

The post Know your NEM: We may still get to 50% renewables by 2030 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Elliott Green Power has appointed ARENA's inaugural CEO, Ivor Frischknecht, to its advisory board, alonsgide another low-carbon investment veteran, Mark Woodall.

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