RenewEconomy
CEFC tips $150m into big solar projects in NSW
NSW set to double its solar capacity after CEFC stumps up $150m to fast-track financial close of 110MW of solar projects.
Categories: Around The Web
Three signs that the Great Energy Disruption is already here
Three recent news items tell the story that a game-changing decline in the cost of grid storage is happening much faster than anticipated.
Categories: Around The Web
Energy a “defining debate” of this parliament: Turnbull’s key NPC comments
PM tells National Press Club energy is "a key debate" in 2017 parliament. Here are Malcolm Turnbull's key comments on the subject.
Categories: Around The Web
Ergon Energy signs 12-year PPA for 100MW Qld solar farm
Queensland government-owned Ergon Energy Retail inks another solar PPA, this time for 12 years with FRV's 100MW Liliyvale Solar Farm.
Categories: Around The Web
Investors back 1000s of MW of new solar projects in Australia – just don’t mention the RET
As renewables are used as a political football, investors and energy companies are getting on with the job, with major Asian investor group Equis announcing 200MW of 'battery ready' solar projects in Australia, with plans for another 1000MW in the near future.
Categories: Around The Web
Eos Energy Storage Partners with Environment One to Manufacture Grid-Scale Battery Systems in Upstate New York
E/One sets new standard in safe and environmentally sound production of utility energy storage.
Categories: Around The Web
Renewables will create “real jobs”, says Shorten
Bill Shorten tells National Press Club Labor will hold its ground on climate change, and create "real jobs" through renewables.
Categories: Around The Web
We can keep global warming below 2℃ – but the hard work is about to start
To halt global warming, nations must accelerate renewables deployment and build on gains. More challenging, the investment required to develop new technologies to get to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Categories: Around The Web
New year, same old energy Furphies: Fact-checking the pollies
Despite improvements in the quality of discussion on climate and renewables, the political debate has regressed significantly. Time to fact check some old Furphies.
Categories: Around The Web
Tender launched for Victoria’s ‘largest solar farm’
Shepparton Council calling for expressions of interest for development of a major solar farm in Mooroopna – a possible contender to power Melbourne's tram network.
Categories: Around The Web
Will electric cars thrive, survive, or die under president Trump?
The electric car has already been killed once. Will Trump kill it again, or jump on for the ride?
Categories: Around The Web
Australian battery price war resumes, with Powerwall 2 delivery just ‘weeks away’
With the first shipment of Tesla's Powerwall 2 battery systems set to hit Australian shores, prices of home energy storage continue to tumble, shifting the target market from early adopters, to the "early majority".
Categories: Around The Web
Redflow extends battery warranty to 10 years
Redflow Limited today announces that it has extended the warranty for its 10 kilowatt hour (kWh) ZBM2 and ZCell zinc-bromine flow batteries to 10 years.
Categories: Around The Web
Victoria steps up climate ambition. Turnbull takes two steps back
In the face of an increasingly divided Turnbull government, Victoria’s Labor government has upped the ante on climate action, pledging to cut state emissions by up to 20 per cent within three years on the road to zero net emissions by 2050.
Categories: Around The Web
Know your NEM: Spot prices soar, demand stays soft
As 2017 kicks off, spot electricity prices are up 118% in Victoria, despite a sharp reduction in consumption. Plus, a reminder that predicting the future of the electricity market can be very hard.
Categories: Around The Web
Graph of the Day: How EVs are driving the next oil crisis
New BNEF chart forecasts that 13 million barrels of oil per day will be displaced by electric vehicles by the year 2040.
Categories: Around The Web
Autonomous vehicle developer opens Adelaide base
UK-based autonomous transport outfit RDM Group opens Asia Pacific HQ in Adelaide, sees "massive" demand in Australia.
Categories: Around The Web
When the heat is on, we need plans to keep cities cool
Climate change means Australian cities are facing more heat waves, but not all strategies to keep us cool are created equal.
Categories: Around The Web
Emissions task shifting to industry as carbon can kicked further down the road
The Turnbull government's ruling out of a power sector EIS shifts more of the national abatement task over to industry. Any more policy wind-backs will increase the size of that task.
Categories: Around The Web
QUT and Sumitomo open solar CPV test plant in Brisbane
QUT and Japan's Sumitomo open pilot plant for concentrating solar photovoltaic technology in Brisbane's southeast.
Categories: Around The Web