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Battery storage: Who’s leading on quality and brand recognition?

Tue, 2017-08-29 10:33
Tesla and LG Chem are leading the battery storage market in terms of brand recognition, but the issue of quality throws up some other names.
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Renewables delivering – despite enemies and “lukewarm defenders”

Mon, 2017-08-28 15:19
Green Energy Markets Renewable Energy Index shows an industry delivering on its promise: fulfilling a large and growing part of Australia's energy needs while also providing meaningful employment.
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Sapphire Wind Farm seeks community investors in possible Australian first

Mon, 2017-08-28 15:04
Sapphire Wind Farm developer calls on community investors to take shares in what will be NSW biggest wind farm.
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Snowy Hydro 2.0 Powering Ahead

Mon, 2017-08-28 14:18
Snowy Hydro 2.0 is already employing 350 people and will create more than 5000 new jobs during the construction phase of the development.
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Know your NEM: Canberra fiddling while Rome burns on energy prices

Mon, 2017-08-28 14:16
Federal Government turns attention back to electricity prices, but while their interest is welcome, it is in a sense just fiddling while Rome burns.
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WA mulls three gigawatt-scale PV plants to export solar to Asia

Mon, 2017-08-28 14:11
Plans to build three gigawatt-scale solar farms in Western Australia’s Pilbara and Kimberley regions and sell their output to Indonesia via submarine cables, could soon be commercially viable.
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James Hansen’s Generation IV nuclear fallacies and fantasies

Mon, 2017-08-28 13:37
Climate scientist James Hansen's claims about Generation IV nuclear concepts simply don't stack up, argues Jim Green.
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Victoria proposes “hybrid” contracts for new wind and solar farms

Mon, 2017-08-28 13:22
Victoria "hybrid" contract for its 650MW large scale renewable energy action, combining fixed payment with "contract for difference" that will cap its exposure.
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NSW on renewables: All talk, not much action

Mon, 2017-08-28 12:33
NSW talks a good talk on renewable energy but offers few actions. Its share of new renewables is far smaller than its share of electricity consumption and this is particularly marked in PV, yet Transgrid sees huge opportunities.
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S.A. calls tender for “next generation” renewables and storage

Mon, 2017-08-28 12:25
South Australia seeks bids for "next generation" of renewable energy technologies, including "firming" capacity for wind and solar projects, bulk energy storage, and bio-energy.
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Shell wins approval for 250MW solar plant in Queensland coal country

Mon, 2017-08-28 10:29
Shell wins planning approval for 250MW solar plant in heart of Queensland's coal country, in what appears to be its first big move into large scale solar in Australia.
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WA bathes in sunshine, but poorest households lack solar panels

Mon, 2017-08-28 10:19
Solar panels are still a rarity in WA’s lower-income areas.
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Launch of National Smart Energy Training Centre

Fri, 2017-08-25 14:13
For the first time the smart energy sector will have a truly national training strategy.
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NREL’s new look at generation costs: Wind and solar still cheapest

Fri, 2017-08-25 14:01
New study on technology generation costs shows wind and solar remain cheapest, with further cost falls ahead.
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Supply crunch casts shadow over Australian solar boom

Fri, 2017-08-25 13:56
China's unexpected 2017 boom in solar PV installation could have an unfortunate impact on the ambitious plans of many in Australia's surging solar sector – a bottleneck in module supplies and price rises that could impact the huge pipeline of project.
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VSUN edges closer to home storage market for vanadium batteries

Fri, 2017-08-25 13:04
Australian Vanadium says VSUN subsidiary well advanced in negotiations to roll out residential vanadium redox flow battery.
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Vales Point coal plant looks to build 45MW solar farm

Fri, 2017-08-25 12:34
Owners of Vale Point coal generator looking to build 45MW solar farm on landfill site of now closed coal units.
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Oops: Rick Perry may have stumbled upon solution to going 100% renewable

Fri, 2017-08-25 11:45
Buried in his grid study is how electric cars and smart control systems will enable deep penetration of solar and wind energy
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ExxonMobil attacks new study that exposes its climate deception…again

Fri, 2017-08-25 11:44
A new study published in the journal Environmental Research Letters marks an important advance in the examination of fossil fuel companies’ responsibility for climate change.
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Finkel’s Clean Energy Target plan ‘better than nothing’: economists poll

Fri, 2017-08-25 11:42
When the perfect is the enemy of the "roughly acceptable”: Economists back emissions policy that Alan Finkel has put on the table.
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