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Photon, Canadian to co-develop 1.14GW of big solar in NSW

Wed, 2018-01-31 09:01
Photon and Canadian's plans for 1.14GW of large scale solar in NSW suggest that the post-RET investment cliff predicted by some may not occur just yet.
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Lismore opens Australia’s largest floating solar farm, could add storage

Wed, 2018-01-31 08:50
Lismore opens country’s biggest solar farm, and flags five fold increase in size and may add battery storage. The unique community funding model forms a key part of city’s push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2023.
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Despite those big bills, networks still most likely cause of blackouts

Tue, 2018-01-30 14:54
Reaction to Victoria outages emphasise two points: One is that despite spending tens of billions, and inflating everyone's power bills, networks are still the biggest cause of blackouts. And two, the tolerance of such outages is close to zero.
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Explainer: power station ‘trips’ are normal, but blackouts are not

Tue, 2018-01-30 14:03
Tens of thousands of Victorians were left without power over the long weekend as the distribution network struggled with blistering temperatures, reigniting fears about the stability of our energy system.
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Tesla big battery now has it own widget to show charge and discharge

Tue, 2018-01-30 13:47
The Tesla big battery now has a widget to show its ground-breaking activities - rapid charge and discharge - on Australian energy market.
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Australia risks missing out on lithium battery boom

Tue, 2018-01-30 13:47
Report warns Australia must act quickly to take advantage of its leading position in the global lithium resources market, or risk missing out on what could be a $2 trillion value supply chain.
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A regulatory blow to Spain’s subsidised coal-fired electricity sector

Tue, 2018-01-30 13:23
Security-of supply justifications are seen in Spain as just political schemes to support the status quo. Hello Australia.
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The solar market consolidation that never happened

Tue, 2018-01-30 13:20
Remember the predictions that the solar market would consolidate from 4000 businesses to four or forty major solar companies serving the Australian market? The opposite happened.
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70 Council representing 7.5M take climate action

Tue, 2018-01-30 13:16
The Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership, Australia’s fastest-growing national climate program for local government, today welcomed 35 new councils to the fight against climate change.
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JinkoSolar interviewed by CNN as global leader in solar

Tue, 2018-01-30 13:14
JinkoSolar today announced that it participated in an exclusive interview with CNN as part of the network’s Marketplace: Middle East program. which focuses on business developments in the Middle East reason.
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Graph of the Day: Green bonds soar to record $163bn in 2017

Tue, 2018-01-30 12:38
Annual issuance of green bonds not only passed $100bn in 2017, it sailed right past it, says BNEF, driven by 67% yoy growth.
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Victorian networks blow a fuse in heatwave – Coalition blows its mind on Twitter

Mon, 2018-01-29 13:59
Victoria's blackouts on Sunday had nothing to do with any crisis of energy supply – coal, renewable or otherwise. But why let the truth get in the way of a good smear campaign?
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Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

Mon, 2018-01-29 13:57
Tender by major US utility puts the cost of wind plus battery storage and solar plus battery storage below the cost of existing coal plants. It indicates that the cost of large-scale battery storage have fallen by more than half in the past year.
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Another solar farm in pipeline for Queensland, as 120MW project approved

Mon, 2018-01-29 13:35
Queensland's Fraser Coast Council has approved plans by REST to develop the 120MW Munna Creek solar farm.
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Know your NEM: Tesla big battery takes centre stage

Mon, 2018-01-29 13:31
Tesla big battery highlights opportunities for utility scale batteries, and more wind and solar farms are looking hard at the technology.
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Tesla big battery setting market prices, including at $14,200 cap

Thu, 2018-01-25 13:41
Tesla big battery has been been an active bidder in wholesale markets, including being a price-setter for bids at the market cap.
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Why is Australia misleading consumers on electric vehicle emissions?

Thu, 2018-01-25 13:15
Craig Kelly has proved a loose cannon on the subject of EV emissions, but the government is not helping by providing misleading information to consumers.
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Australia added 1.3GW of solar in 2017, and could treble it in 2018

Thu, 2018-01-25 12:58
While 2017 was a record year for solar PV in Australia, it will be completely put in the shade by what we’re likely to install in 2018.
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‘We have to change capitalism’ to beat climate change, says world’s biggest asset manager

Thu, 2018-01-25 10:48
Top brass at the world’s largest asset manager says the rules governing investments are evolving to factor in environmental risks
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AusNet services to develop terminal station for Pacific Hydro’s crowlands wind farm

Thu, 2018-01-25 10:20
AusNet Services announces today that agreement has been secured with Pacific Hydro to develop a new transmission connection for the 80 MW Crowlands Wind Farm project in the Pyrenees Shire Council in western Victoria, near Avoca.
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