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How to fast-track renewables without weakening environmental approvals

How to fast-track renewables without weakening environmental approvals

There are genuine environmental impacts to consider in the race to renewables. The Federal Budget provides some potential for positive change.
Is Australia’s brown coal hydrogen export project destined to fail?

Is Australia’s brown coal hydrogen export project destined to fail?

Will the controversial HESC project overcome the significant hurdles facing hydrogen exports? The facts aren’t painting an optimistic picture.
Locking in the green energy transition: Hydrogen ready for takeoff, or a reality check?

Locking in the green energy transition: Hydrogen ready for takeoff, or a reality check?

Depending on who you listen to, the global hydrogen industry is either poised for take-off in 2024, or about to come face to face with the reality of costs.
Japan does not need Australian gas to keep the lights on in Tokyo

Japan does not need Australian gas to keep the lights on in Tokyo

Future Gas Strategy anticipates continued demand for LNG exports, but IEEFA research suggests our biggest export market is already in decline and over-supplied.
Australia is back in the global race for green hydrogen with game-changing production credit

Australia is back in the global race for green hydrogen with game-changing production credit

A ground-breaking production tax scheme will place Australia back in the highly competitive global race for green hydrogen and its derivative products, including green metals.
After a decade of chaos, Labor finally pivots Australia away from dig-and-ship petrostate to post carbon world

After a decade of chaos, Labor finally pivots Australia away from dig-and-ship petrostate to post carbon world

Labor’s production tax credit model for critical minerals and green hydrogen is a clear acknowledgement that Australia can’t simply leave it to free markets.
A rule change on transmission losses for wind and solar farms could save   billions for consumers

A rule change on transmission losses for wind and solar farms could save billions for consumers

A ruling that effectively charges wind and solar farms for twice actual transmission losses represents a large risk to developers of new generation assets, and consumers.
We need to talk about gas emissions,  and the climate methane bomb

We need to talk about gas emissions, and the climate methane bomb

Politicians seeking to lock gas into Australia’s future to 2050 need to understand that leaked gas emissions are likely 100 times worse than carbon dioxide emissions.
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