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AGL invests in world’s largest battery storage virtual power plant
AGL Energy to install 1,000 centrally controlled battery storage systems in South Australian homes and businesses with a total capacity of 7MWh – equivalent to a 5MW solar peaking plant. A foretaste of what many expect to be the energy system of the future.
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France gets a step closer to solar roads
French energy minister Ségolène Royal has inaugurated a manufacturing plant that will produce the so-called "Wattway" paving, made of solar PV.
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Tesla: Gigafactory is “on schedule” to support 2017 Model 3 roll-out
Despite giving tours to press and customers in the past few weeks, many details about developments at Tesla Motors and Panasonic’s “gigafactory” near Reno are still murky, and little light was shed by Elon Musk in Tesla’s Q2 results.
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State of the Climate 2015: global warming and El Niño sent records tumbling
Besides record heat, the world saw many other unwanted records tumble in 2015, providing ever more evidence for the effect humans are having on climate.
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Tesla and SolarCity: Do they fit together?
There are synergies between EVs and solar, so the basic concept of merging Tesla and SolarCity seems sound. The biggest risk is that somebody else might execute it better.
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Saving ARENA could be only upside of scary new Senate
As the Senate shapes up to be heavy on Hansonites and climate skepticism, and light on support for renewable energy, retaining a fully-funded ARENA could be the best the industry can hope for.
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Suncorp – It’s time to act on climate change
For the first time in its history, Suncorp has listed climate change as a specific business risk. But it's still not convinced by the science.
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Artificial leaf turns CO2 emissions Into fuel
What if humans could invent a leaf-like solar cell that could turn carbon dioxide pollution from the atmosphere into fuel for electric power plants? Researchers led by University of Illinois-Chicago might have developed just that.
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The financial case for net zero energy districts
Net zero energy buildings have been gaining momentum around the world. However, there still remains an industry-wide perception that net zero energy is too expensive, or comes at a much higher incremental cost over business as usual.
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What happens when 1GW of coal capacity suddenly disappears
New regulator report notes electricity price spikes caused by sudden loss of output at coal-fired generators, caused by "trips" and coal "quality" issues.
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More wind and solar? Not a problem, says market operator
Electricity market operator says there are no technical barriers to having more wind and solar on the national grid, but the market design and regulations need to catch up with new technology, rather than servicing a century-old system.
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Danish university develops tungsten-based technique to capture broader solar wavelength
Technique developed at Aalborg University creates a component resistant to high temperatures and able to capture broader spectrum of solar irradiation.
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Engineering group Monadelphous turns to renewables after resources boom ends
ASX-listed engineering group joins with ZEM Energy to form new company focused on developing large-scale renewables projects in the race to meet the RET.
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We were promised the greenest Olympics ever. We got an ecological disaster
So how did an international environmental champion fail to meet the promises of a sustainable Rio in time for the city’s biggest international event in decades?
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5 trends that will shape global solar market, heading for record 73GW
According to GTM Research’s latest edition of its quarterly Global Solar Demand Monitor, global solar installations are expected to grow by 43 percent this year, increasing to a total of 73 gigawatts.
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WA solar installer teams with EV company to offer “complete package”
Infinite Energy says partnership with JET Charge will "complete the picture" for customers, adding EV charging to solar, battery storage and retail electricity offering.
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Energy efficiency market update: losing ground in July
The spot Victoria energy efficiency market lost ground rapidly in July, and the softening has continued into early August.
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Hunger strike pushes South Korea to defer coal plant plan
A protest and one-week hunger strike has prompted the South Korean Government to indefinitely postpone consideration of the 1160 MW ‘Dangjin Eco Power’ coal-fired plant.
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The solution to Australia’s gas crisis is not more gas
Many are proposing the obvious , but wrong, solution to Australia’s crisis : develop more gas production resources. But this path fails for several reasons.
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BNEF says broken gas market main offender in SA energy “crisis”
BNEF report says poorly functioning gas market main cause of SA power price spike, blaming renewables "erroneous and simplistic."
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