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Gupta's big battery at Port Augusta wins planning approval, key part of his plan to power the state's manufacturing industry with dispatchable renewables.

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SA firm 1414 Degrees seals new to deal test its thermal energy storage solution in a range of agribusiness applications, including with sustainable agri pioneer, Nectar Farms.

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Media and political event at partially completed Cooper's Gap wind farm in Queensland, which will be biggest in Australia once complete at end of financial year.

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Highlights from the second day of the clean energy summit and why some are trying to see the future by looking into the past.

The post Old school views and rules, why Cogati stinks, and why syncons are a stop-gap appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewable energy developers to get new visibility on rival projects in effort to avoid wind and solar traffic jams in parts of the grid.

The post Privacy rules dumped as regulators seek to avoid wind and solar traffic jams appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carnegie Clean Energy seeks $5.5 million from investors as it tries to recapitalise and re-boot its wave energy technologies.

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Latest monthly allocation of Victoria solar rebates exhausted within hours, reinforcing concerns the state government scheme is effectively strangling the market.

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The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until 9 September 2019.

The public consultation period for assessment for export accreditation will be open until 9 September 2019.

Growers hosting lectures by academic who says Great Barrier Reef is ‘in great order’

Queensland sugarcane farmers – among the biggest polluters of the Great Barrier Reef catchment – have labelled the scientific consensus about the natural wonder as “unsubstantiated scaremongering”.

Their peak organisation, Canegrowers, says it is attempting to bring “balance” to scientific debate about the reef by hosting and promoting two lectures next month by the controversial academic Peter Ridd.

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BBC Click's Spencer Kelly takes a ride in some in some of Nasa's latest vehicles.

As August allotment of rooftop solar rebates opens to applications, Victoria energy minister says scheme's controversial design will stay as it is.

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Neoen's Tesla big battery increases revenue in second half, but last three months clipped as other batteries grab their share of the FCAS pie.

The post Tesla big battery revenue dips in second quarter as FCAS market recedes appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Tesla's mass-market Model 3 electric sedan wins highest possible safety rating in Australia – a 5-Star from the Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP).

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Southern Right Whales rely on Victoria's coastline to rest and calf during migration. Is enough being done to protect these areas?

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California regulator ARB is planning to stay the course with its proposed maximum price for Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits, while floating further changes to the potential borrowed credits mechanism and existing Credit Clearance Market process.

World’s biggest fund urged to invest in clean energy for good of the climate and its investors

BlackRock, the world’s biggest investor, has lost an estimated $90bn over the last decade by ignoring the serious financial risk of investing in fossil fuel companies, according to economists.

A report from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) has found that BlackRock has eroded the value of the $6.5tn fund by betting on oil companies that were falling in value and by missing out on growth in clean energy investments.

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Deficit generation exceeded credits under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) during the first quarter of 2019, as renewable diesel and electric vehicle credit growth could not outpace the year’s more ambitious carbon intensity target.

Market participants anticipate the California Carbon Allowance (CCA) spread to rise in the coming weeks as speculators and compliance entities look to shift delivery to the following year to maintain holding limit space, but it remains to be seen whether the rate will eclipse this year's previous high.