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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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Conversion efficiency at 20.41%, LONGi solar creates world record of monocrystalline PERC module

Thu, 2018-01-25 09:02
LONGi Solar announced that the independent third-party certification test organization, the company's 60-cell PERC module achieved a photoelectric conversion efficiency of 20.41%, a new world record.
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Tesla among 19 groups competing to build Darwin big battery

Thu, 2018-01-25 08:26
Tesla among 19 groups bidding for contract to build a big battery in Darwin that will reduce the need for back-up gas generators, and smooth the way for more solar PV in the Northern Territory.
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Neoen starts on 150MW solar plant in NSW – just a year from initial “idea”

Wed, 2018-01-24 13:50
Neoen says 150MW solar project shows 2000MW of solar and storage could be brought into production faster and cheaper than Snowy 2.0.
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SolarReserve opens Australian HQ ahead of solar tower construction

Wed, 2018-01-24 13:48
SolarReserve has opened its Australian headquarters and a field office near where it will build a 150MW solar thermal power plant.
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Construction begins on 212MW wind farm and storage project in S.A.

Wed, 2018-01-24 13:30
Construction begins on state's newest wind project near Port Augusta, one that will also include battery storage.
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