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Elon Musk sends Tesla Roadster into orbit, and changes space travel
ICYMI, there's a red Tesla Roadster flying through space, on a billion-year elliptic Mars orbit. Why? Well that's just how Elon Musk rolls.
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Windlab’s new 100MW wind farm approved for Queensland’s north
Windlab's 100MW, $200m Lakeland Wind Farm set to be built south of Cooktown in Queensland, after winning state government approval.
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South Australia unveils another big battery, this time with solar
Tilt Renewables to build another SA big battery, next to new solar farm and existing Snowtown windfarm, and a 300MW/1350MWh pumped hydro project near Adelaide.
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LONGi Solar to Set up 1GW Mono Cell and 1GW Mono Module Manufacturing Facility in India
Responding to growing market demand, LONGi will invest $309 million, including about $240 million in construction investment and roughly $68 million in working capital, to double the capacity of its cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh from 500MW to 1GW respectively.
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Greensmith Energy’s Texas Waves Energy Storage project now operational, responds quickly to January cold spell, increasing grid reliability in ERCOT
Greensmith Energy, a part of the technology group Wärtsilä, has successfully completed two grid-scale energy storage systems in partnership with E.ON Climate & Renewables in Texas.
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New batteries for Hawaiian wind farm: Younicos upgrades 10 MW energy storage system
Younicos has signed an agreement with TerraForm Power to install and commission a 10 MW battery-based energy storage system upgrade at the site of the Kaheawa wind farm on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
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Horizon Power partnering with leading academic institution to trial distributed energy systems in regional Western Australia
Horizon Power is conducting a body of research over the next three years with the aim of increasing distributed photovoltaic system penetration throughout its remote networks.
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Rooftop solar most reliable source of new generation on NEM, says report
Rooftop solar has been installed by over 1.6 million households and is the most reliable source of steadily growing generation in the NEM.
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Turnbull’s power play: Snowy 2.0 vs battery storage
Snowy 2.0 report confirms that $8 billion project would likely boost coal and lift emissions. Worse, it takes an "us and them" approach to battery storage, and uses some pretty silly battery costings to justify its case.
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A Snow(y) job: He who pays the piper calls the tune
One of our main immediate criticisms of Snowy Hydro's latest paper is its assumption that Snowy 2.0 is the only pumped hydro project capable of being developed in Australia.
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New Nissan LEAF EV confirmed for Australia delivery
Big news for Australian EV market, as Nissan confirms delivery of next-gen LEAF will happen in the "next fiscal year."
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Australian wave energy hopeful wins grant to test technology at UK hub
Australian company AMOG wins EU grant to test its “floating pendulum” wave power technology at a marine energy testing site in Cornwall, UK.
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Renewable Energy Market Report: A cat among the pigeons
Following a generally stable end to 2017, forecasts suggesting the LRET will be met by 2020 have drawn a mixed reaction in the LGC market across January.
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The long and winding road to tariff reform
In first of three articles on electricity network tariff reform, we look at Tariff Structure Statements, and why you should care about them.
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Tesla big battery is already bringing Australia’s gas cartel to heel
Incident in January shows how Tesla big battery is already breaking the stranglehold of the gas cartel in South Australia's electricity market. And for the first time, a wind farm bid in FCAS to keep prices down.
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Tasmania wants to quit “broken” NEM as major parties agree it needs reform
Tasmania's Liberal government flags plan to quit NEM, as bipartisan Parliamentary report concludes electricity market is broken, needs rebuilding.
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Graph of the Day: Renewables overtake coal in European electricity supply
Analysis shows renewable energy generation supplied more of Europe's electricity than coal in 2017 for the first time ever.
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Know your NEM week: Debate shifts to dispatchable renewables
Bond price jump may hit renewable energy projects; state Labor governments under threat; and debate shifts to dispatchable renewable energy.
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Tindo Solar, small retailers, to win big from Tesla virtual power plant
Tindo Solar to win big after mandate for Tesla virtual power plant calls for half of the 250MW solar capacity to be sourced from Australia.
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Hyundai joins renewable energy body Hydrogen Mobility Australia as a founding partner
Hyundai Motor Company Australia has become a founding member of new automotive industry body Hydrogen Mobility Australia (HMA).
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