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L.A. is painting its streets white to keep the city cool
While politicians waffle on climate change, Los Angeles is tackling the problem head on with a radical plan to lower the temperature of the city.
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Energy Efficiency market – commercial lighting takes centre stage
Whatever the recent VEEC market volatility may imply, it seems clear that the intent exists within government to bring about change, the question now remains what will the end result be?
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What does Hurricane Harvey mean for your super?
Though the awareness of climate risk disclosure has become more prevalent, such disclosures by Australian companies are still the exception rather than the norm.
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AEMO switches focus to dispatchable generation over baseload
Energy market operator's message on baseload generation is blunt: it's struggling to compete and not well suited to the changes taking place. It's time to modernise.
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Graph of the Day: Green and gold on Australia’s grid
Australia's wind and solar energy resources should put on a bit of a show on same day as Coalition declares its attachment to coal.
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CEFC backs leasing model to boost Australia’s EV uptake
Clean Energy Finance Corp backs Macquarie Leasing program offering discounted finance for electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and other low-carbon investments, including rooftop solar and battery storage.
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Liddell: Climate change and air pollution medical negligence
With an estimated 3000 deaths pa and many illnesses in Australia due to heart and lung disease from air pollution The Prime Minister’s proposal to keep open heavily polluting Liddell as the solution to his government’s failures in energy policy must be condemned.
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Nissan takes on Tesla with new LEAF, in new era for electric vehicles
Nissan's “completely reinvented” LEAF, with more than double the range for under $US30,000, puts it toe to toe with Tesla Model 3.
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Turnbull’s abject capitulation to the coal lobby is now complete
The kindest thing to say about Turnbull's absurd proposal to extend the life of the country's oldest coal generator is that he is playing politics. There is no other reason to ask AGL to stick a bandaid on an increasingly unreliable coal generator on basis that it will lead to increased security and lower prices.
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AEMC endorses 5-minute settlement rule to underpin battery storage
Energy rule-maker says it supports change to 5 minute settlement period, but wants it introduced gradually and not before July, 2021.
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Coalition asks AGL to keep Liddell coal generator open extra 5 years
Coalition wants AGL to keep 46-year old Liddell coal generator open another five years, despite AEMO saying there is no threat to security standards and best way to minimise is to have more renewables.
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AEMO says fossil fuel failures, renewable investment delays biggest threat to grid
AEMO says the biggest threat to Australia's electricity supply is hotter temperatures, failure of large fossil fuel plants, and delays in investment in new wind and solar. Smart solutions such as demand management and storage will mean no need for new coal generators.
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Graph of the day: South Australia’s “baseload” wind supply
Wind energy has supplied a constant output of 1200MW over last three days in South Australia - just like "baseload"
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Voters blame energy companies – and PM – for sky-high power prices
More than four times as many people blame Malcolm Turnbull for sky-high power prices than renewable energy companies. That power campaign went well didn't it!
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Billionaire Cannon-Brookes backs home energy loan start-up
Australian tech investor Mike Cannon-Brookes has tipped close to $4m into home energy loan start-up Brighte.
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Gas and hydro get big $ in energy markets, solar and wind paid less
Hydro and gas generation get higher half hourly prices than coal in Australia's energy market. Wind & solar PV take a discount.
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Wind and solar facing “valley of death” despite changing economics
Australia faces energy crisis caused by failure of Labor and Coalition to face reality of both climate change and the technological transformation of the energy sector.
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How the Greenland ice sheet fared in 2017
Greenland may have gained a small amount of ice over the 2016-17 year - a one-year blip in long-term trend of year-on-year declines.
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A bunch of reasons to be optimistic about clean energy in Australia
Renewable energy is increasingly profitable without subsidies, and coal has become uninvestable without government intervention – this used to be the opposite.
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Trump names climate science denier to run NASA
Republican Congressman named to head NASA had demanded Obama apologize for funding climate change research.
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