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Malcolm Roberts joins Trump’s climate deniers in fight for “freedom”
Senator Malcolm Roberts has met with some of world’s most notorious and longest-serving climate science deniers to help put their stamp on the new Trump administration.
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3 reasons why fossil fuel companies should disclose their reserves
Not a single fossil fuel company in the world discloses potential emissions from their reserves – and that is a big problem.
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Younicos to design 49MW battery solution to UK’s largest storage project
Younicos will design and supply a 49 MWlithium-ion battery storage system located at a former gas and coal power plant in northern England.
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Is the Indian coal domino about to fall?
India’s coal power boosters are now confronting an increasing array of signals which suggest the diversification away from coal will only accelerate in 2017.
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NSW, Queensland seek to protect network revenues at COAG
NSW and Queensland - which still own their networks - block reforms that could lower network costs. Meanwhile, Finkel sings praises of pumped hydro and household battery storage to COAG energy ministers.
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Australia’s energy rule maker hasn’t a clue about renewable energy
The AEMC's latest report again takes the breath away for the depth of its ignorance. In the case of wind and solar, it is becoming increasingly obvious that it has no idea about technology costs.
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Queensland’s largest solar farm now feeding power to the grid
Elecnor's 25MW Barcaldine Solar Farm in central-western Queensland is feeding electricity into the grid – two months ahead of schedule.
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Bombora Wave Power eyes EU market, starting with 1.5MW Portugal project
WA wave energy developer says its mWave technology is attracting strong interest in Europe, where the company has plans to roll out a series of commercial-scale wave farms, starting in Portugal.
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Global emissions fall for first time on shift away from coal in China, US
The growth in global production of greenhouse gases has decelerated over the past few years, with 2015 seeing the first actual reduction, of 0.1% compared to 2014 levels.
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The climate impacts of Trump’s ExxonMobil pick for chief diplomat
President-elect Trump on rounds out a potential dream team of anti-environment cabinet members with the chief executive officer of ExxonMobil.
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US solar market clocks largest quarter ever – nearly 2MW an hour installed Q3
Report shows 4,143MW solar PV installed in US in Q3 2016, at rate of 1MW every 32 minutes. Q4 on track to beat record again.
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Science-based targets to boost powerful climate strategies in Australia
Ecofys and Edge Environment team up, bringing ground-breaking metrics to Australian businesses
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Fossil fuel divestments now add up to $5.2 trillion
Report shows network of governments, funds, organisations, philanthropies and individuals representing $5.2trn in assets divesting from fossil fuel companies.
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Modelling from government advisor shows high RET may be cheapest option
Modelling from government's preferred advisor actually shows that a high renewables target could deliver lower costs to consumers than an EIS. That's not what the public was told last week, but predictions that an EIS is cheaper were based on some ridiculous price assumptions.
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TrinaBEST agrees to provide 1st shipment of 2MW/2MWh Energy Storage System to EU
TrinaBEST announced today that it has signed an agreement to provide 1st shipment of 2MW/2MWh TrinaMega to EU.
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Will New Zealand learn from Australia’s rooftop solar mistakes?
What’s happening in New Zealand mimics what happened in Australia 5 or so years ago. The question is, will they learn from our mistakes?
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Carnegie teams with Sumitomo for grid-scale vanadium flow battery storage
Carnegie Wave to develop, demonstrate commercial applications of vanadium redox flow battery storage in Australia, along with Japan giant Sumitomo.
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Decarbonisation and politics: How to make it matter to voters
Most people agree with the concept of climate change. For those of us that think it’s a relatively urgent issue the challenge is how to make it front of mind for voters.
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Trump, Putin, and ExxonMobil team up to destroy the planet
Pick of Exxon CEO for Secretary of State clarifies why Putin wanted Trump elected: a $500 billion oil deal killed by sanctions.
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Zenviron wins 270MW Sapphire Wind Farm Contract
Environ secures contract on NSW's largest wind farm.
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