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Australia installs 98MW rooftop solar in August – soaring above 6GW total
Solar party continues. Latest data show 98MW of rooftop solar PV was installed on Australian homes and businesses in August.
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Telstra, Macquarie looking to build new wind and solar farms
Telstra and Macquarie Group looking to build new solar and wind farms in Australia in further signs of strong corporate investment.
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South Australia launches tender for hydrogen plant, buses
SA govt seeks proposals to build hydrogen production facility and refuelling station, and supply at least six hydrogen cell buses.
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Blockchain energy trader Power Ledger raises $17m in “coin offering”
Perth blockchain-based renewables trading start-up, Power Ledger, raising tens of millions of dollars in Australia's first "initial coin offering" in energy space.
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AEMO explains caution on S.A. wind: We’re first in the world
AEMO explains caution of grid operations in South Australia, saying it is way out front of rest of the world and in virgin territory. But there is debate on grid weakness is due to wind farms or ageing gas units with the wrong settings.
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Turnbull’s rooftop PV and storage may be more useful to grid than Liddell
PM is chuffed about his rooftop PV and storage, and so he should be. Installations like that will be of greater value to the grid than Liddell, which is a similar age and condition to the Hazelwood generator Turnbull admitted was "very old" and no longer viable.
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WA grid could reach 85% renewables – and cheaper than ‘clean coal’
Repowering WA’s South West Integrated System grid with renewables would not increase the wholesale electricity price, new modelling shows.
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The true cost of keeping the Liddell power plant open
It is the worst of all worlds: a market-based system but with extensive and unpredictable intervention by governments that tend to undermine investor confidence
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Biggest threat to Australia’s energy supply – fossil fuel ideologues
As AEMO works to shore up Australia's grid, fossil fuel proponents are barracking for "a giant blackout on a super hot day this coming summer.”
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Flow Power signs unique PPA for business users with Ararat wind farm
Retailer Flow Power signs PPA with Ararat wind farm to pass on cheap renewable energy to business customers. It aims for 1,000MW of such contracts.
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AGL bought Liddell for nothing, but would cost Turnbull a small fortune, and his credibility
Liddell was bought for nothing and for good reason - "it's clapped out". Turnbull's intervention raises probity issues and could have as devastating an impact on new technology as canning of the carbon price and the attempt to kill the RET.
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Barnaby Joyce’s bizarre call to arms against “green peril”
Joyce says Australia under attack from “green peril”, that will only become apparent to all when the power goes out, leaving people stuck in a lift, busting for a pee. Oh, and he doesn't think India will want Australia's thermal coal. Say, what?
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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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