Rachel Williamson, Author at Renew Economy

Rachel Williamson

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Rachel Williamson is a science and business journalist, who focuses on climate change-related health and environmental issues.

Renewables

Gas writes its own death sentence with plants 10 times the price of new renewables
Gas prices are rapidly coming down, but the long term doesn’t look good as wind and solar continue to beat gas on price.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 27, 2022

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Solar

Gravity storage specialist Energy Vault strikes big battery deal with Australia solar project
Gravity storage proponent Energy Vault strikes another big battery deal, this time with a proposed solar farm in Victoria.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 27, 2022

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Policy & Planning

Australian business leaders still baulking at 1.5°C target, despite their net zero promises
Corporate Australia is anxious about how much climate action will cost but still believes the country now needs to be thinking about net negative targets.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 19, 2022

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Solar

Call to fast-track solar recycling as panel waste problem piles up
A new international report says Australia needs policy, regulation and more R&D to deal with what could be a very big solar panel waste problem.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 18, 2022

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Policy & Planning

Carbon credits serve to greenwash business-as-usual, says TAI, won’t cut emissions
Carbon credits distract policymakers from concrete actions that actually bring down emissions, TAI submission argues.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 17, 2022

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Solar

Renewables juggernaut Quinbrook flips stake in US solar and battery project
Quinbrook sells minority stake in huge Nevada project to Netherlands largest pension fund, hot on heels of another renewables deal where it doubled its money.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 13, 2022

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Hydrogen

FFI and Sparc get go-ahead to pilot cutting edge hydrogen electroysis plant
Sparc, Fortescue Future Industries and the University of Adelaide to start scoping work on pilot renewable hydrogen plant based on positive modelling.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 13, 2022

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GM buys into Aussie battery metals refiner to secure EV and home energy growth
GM has bought into Queensland Pacific Metals to secure its battery metal supply chain, and is launching a home energy management system to rival Tesla.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 13, 2022

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Solar

WA mine switches to solar in race to produce battery-grade lithium
The Earl Grey Lithium Project – one of largest undeveloped deposits in Australia – is set to add 12MW of solar to deliver about 25% of its energy needs.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 12, 2022

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Solar

Farmers keen to embrace solar, but hamstrung by export limits
Future farmers should be energy traders as well as animal or crop growers, but Australia needs new policy settings to get there.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 11, 2022

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Markets

Bowen tackles carbon market reform with new look Safeguard Mechanism – but is it enough?
Proposed reforms will swap ACCUs for the new credit, but now they’ll only be granted if the emitter can get under their new baseline emissions level.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 10, 2022

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Renewables

FFI taps former chief NT minister to lead green charge in Top End
Micael Gunner will lead FFI’s new Darwin-based team, but will bring a legacy of support for “atrocious” polluting gas projects.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 10, 2022

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