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The second of 22 shipments has arrived in Geelong with the first delivery of turbine blades for the 1.3GW Golden Plains wind farm.

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Katherine Woodthorpe, from the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, on why Australia should fast-track its net zero ambitions. Plus: The nuclear debate and renewable records.

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Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering joins calls for government to be more ambitious with its energy targets – net zero by 2035.

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It’s time to act on decarbonisation as quickly as humanly possible. Here's how.

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Carnegie Clean Energy has secured another €1.2 million towards a demonstration of its CETO wave energy converter in waters off the Basque Country.

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A small milestone after a long wait: Iberdrola's Flyers Creek wind farm sends its first power to the NSW grid amid ongoing turbine construction.

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Federal Court finds Pelican Point gas plant breached energy market rules during controversial South Australia blackouts – at the time pinned on renewables.

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Macquarie's Green Investment Group has teamed with a local developer to roll out 2.4GW of new onshore wind projects in Western Australia.

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A look into curtailment of wind and solar on Wednesday shows Australia's new record for renewables share on the grid could have been even higher.

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G20 scorecard says Australia also needs to close off "major loopholes" in emissions reduction policies and stop exporting emissions via coal.

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The facility, with a total of 2,240 surface mirrors, will provide heat equivalent to 2.3GWh of gas consumption for a Belgian manufacturing plant.

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Climate Action Tracker finds Australia at a decarbonisation "crossroads," with mixed messages on coal and renewables and going the way entirely on fossil gas.

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Developments in EV markets and retail electricity markets deliver much hope for a rapid energy transition, and much food for thought.  

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Why in the first global stocktake of the world’s progress towards limiting warming to 1.5°C did the UN say we’re still not phasing out fossil fuels fast enough?

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Kiwi company Carbonscape raises $18m to help commercialise its wood-to-graphite technology using EU and US forestry waste.

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Major milestone for Australia's energy transition as huge amounts of rooftop solar help set a new high for the instantaneous share of renewables on the grid.

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California start-up will trial UNSW technology aimed at simplifying how the performance of perovskite solar cells is tested on the production line.

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Progress for plans to build more than 4GW of wind, solar and battery storage projects in Queensland coal country, as wind farm wins state approval.

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ASX-listed miner looks to invest some of its windfall coal profits into renewables, including a potential giga-scale solar, wind and pumped hydro project in Queensland.

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Rooftop and distributed solar set remarkable new record for the world's biggest standalone grid after peaking at nearly 2GW and a 74 pct share of output.

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