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Pears Report: It’s time to get really smart about e-bikes
We need more focus on e-bikes and low speed EVs. My dream is a fold-up e-scooter with an integrated bag so it can become a wheelie bag on public transport.
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South Australia urged to re-think household battery storage
Plans for sonnen manufacturing base in South Australia at stake as new state government urged to rethink support for household battery storage.
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Environment Victoria welcomes revelations of final brown coal project collapse
Environment Victoria has welcomed the announcement that the last of three coal processing projects promised public money in 2014 has now officially failed, just a week after state and federal governments committed $50 million each to a coal-to-hydrogen plant.
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CCA: Throwing good money after bad pollution could be improper use of public funds
Given the known failures of carbon capture and storage, investing in such technologies could amount to improper use of public funds.
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Bigger networks, bigger Snowy: Silver bullets or white elephants?
Transforming our energy system may prove far less risky than propping up traditional over-built electricity supply.
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Five red line items that need to be fixed before NEG is agreed
"Even if the Energy Security Board gives Malcolm Turnbull a Rolls Royce model of energy policy, it's not going to be of much use to the country if he immediately seeks to put it in the garage and lock it up for 10 years."
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French oil major bets on EV boom, with electricity retailer buyout
Oil "supermajor" Total buys French electricity retailer as part of long-term hedge against threat to oil demand from rise of electric vehicles. And did we mention the CEO totally drives an EV?
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How the 2016 bleaching altered shape of Great Barrier Reef
New research now reveals the damage that these coral losses caused to the wider ecosystem functioning of the Great Barrier Reef.
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AEMO has just doubled its forecast for EV uptake in Australia
Market operator's latest forecasts for the uptake of electric vehicles suggests 10 million EVs, or half the car fleet, in 20 years.
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Is the NEG just an EIS in disguise, but with added costs?
The NEG seeks to obscure the most valuable information obtained from a market – the price of emissions. Needless complexity and cost arises.
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Smart solar monitoring: Why you should have it
Rooftop PV systems can be adversely affected by things outside of a household's control – and without their knowledge. But you needn't be in the dark about it.
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Australian poultry farmer taps homegrown silicon energy storage
SA energy storage outfit 1414 Degrees to provide NSW poultry processing plant with electricity and heat via a 25MWh thermal energy storage system.
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Low income homes to be offered “no-cost” solar and batteries
A new solar and storage scheme aims to tackle the problem of “power poverty” in Australia head on, by offering low income households around Australia the option to install both solar and battery storage for no upfront cost.
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Image of the Day: “Sheila” the solar panel cleaner
How do you solve a problem like dusty solar panels? Two SA entrepreneurs and a tractor company have created a solution.
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Archer to develop carbon-based battery technology with UNSW
The new partnership is aimed at developing and implementing Archer’s graphite and graphene materials for use in energy storage system applications, targeting lithium-ion batteries and potentially generating technologies and patents that have commercial applications in reliable energy.
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Whichever way you cut it, Turnbull’s climate policy is still a sham
Alan Jones says Craig Kelly should be energy minister. In effect, he already is, because the Coalition's woeful policy is a craven attempt to pacify the right wing. Despite the NEG, or maybe because of it, a bipartisan approach to energy and climate is as elusive as ever.
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Coalition renewables naysayers were wrong. So, so wrong
The Coalition has been an inexhaustible source of confident declarations that renewable energy faced serious, immediate limitations in scale and cost. Let's fact-check that.
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Please explain: CHOGM to focus on Turnbull’s weak emissions policy
Malcolm Turnbull's weak climate policy is not going unnoticed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.
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Chris Uhlmann’s windy “truthiness” adds to policy fog
Chris Uhlmann’s tweet is just the latest in a long series of biased reporting on South Australia’s energy transition.
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Elon Musk’s ‘Westworld for cars’ has gone horribly wrong
"Humans are underrated": After touting robots, Musk now blames them for Tesla production woes.
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