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Dutch team Nuon Solar wins Australia solar car race
The famous World Solar Challenge was won for the seventh time by the Netherlands’ Nuon Solar team.
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UK sets out clean growth strategy and major renewable energy auction
The UK Government has announced an ambitious new Clean Growth Strategy to drastically cut carbon emissions and combat climate change.
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UK solar fund buys stakes in three Queensland projects
UK-based Foresight Solar Fund Limited continues Australian buying spree, taking shares in three Queensland projects under development.
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Don’t waste time on CET – there are other options for renewables, efficiency
We will never have an effective broad-based emission reduction policy – no matter who is in government. Best to look at alternatives, like reverse auctions.
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NSW network to trial 1MWh grid support battery, as new suburbs boom
MPower tapped by Endeavour Energy to install 1MWh battery on network in NSW, in a trial hoped to save $1m a year on grid costs.
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Storage on hold as Victoria still reviewing battery tender
Clock ticks down on Victoria government's plans to have two large scale battery storage projects in place by January 1, with the winners still not known.
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China halts more than 150 coal-fired power plants
China is to stop or delay work on 151 planned and under-construction coal plants as Beijing struggles to respond to a flat-lining of demand for coal power.
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Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter joins climate science deniers and islamophobes for Australian LibertyFest
What do you get when you bring together some of Australia’s most fervent climate science deniers with anti-Islam activists, fledgling right-wing political groups, and an American “free market” Libertarian?
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Voters demand better policy response than baseload
New polling shows two thirds of voters would prefer to see governments increasing energy conservation rather than building new power stations.
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Victoria attracts another wind farm proposal
Australian outfit Synergy Wind has proposed building a 34 turbine wind farm in Victoria's south-east.
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Politics be damned – consumers jump aboard the energy revolution
Australian energy politics might have reached peak stupid, but Australia’s energy revolution – led by innovators and incumbents alike, all focused on delivering smarter, cheaper power – is just hitting its stride. And consumers are getting into it.
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Solar park to drive plastic heliostat development
A field trial to develop highly efficient solar energy heliostats made from plastic has opened in South Australia.
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Smart grid, dumb grid: Conservatives hit peak stupid over demand response
Technology troglodytes in conservative media have collective meltdown over "demand response" – a new initiative to encourage consumers, particularly industry, to shift loads to help manage demand peaks and moderate prices.
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Award winners light the way for booming solar industry
The Clean Energy Council congratulates the winners of the 2017 Solar Design and Installation Awards, which were announced yesterday at the All-Energy Australia Exhibition and Conference in Melbourne.
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Carnegie Clean Energy Board of Directors Update
Carnegie is pleased to announce the appointment to its Board of Directors of two new, non-executive directors
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Qld renewables tender swamped by 115 projects, 6,000MW of storage
Queensland renewables and storage tender attracts proposals amounting to 9,000MW of wind, solar and biomass, and 6000MW of storage.
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Darius Salgo joins Wattwatchers team to drive business growth
'New energy sector' innovator Darius Salgo is joining Wattwatchers in a part-time business development role with a focus on Australian and international market opportunities.
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Telstra unveils its big battery – it’s nearly 10 times bigger than Tesla’s
Never mind Tesla's big battery in SA, Telstra has 1GWh of battery storage in its current fleet, and plans to put it to use on the energy market.
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SolarEdge presenting large-capacity commercial inverters at Australia’s All Energy
SolarEdge is presenting its new large-capacity commercial inverters at All Energy.
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600MW pumped hydro project proposed for northern NSW
A 600MW pumped hydro facility with six hours storage - a $1 billion project - proposed to tap into renewable energy hub in northern NSW,
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