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China Climate Electric Vehicles Markets
Let’s talk about electric vehicles: Australia’s policies are an embarrassment
EV policy in Australia remains utterly hopeless despite a growing body of international experience about what works, and despite the fact that Australia is an oil importer.
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Oil price wars, Covid-19 havoc, green energy tip the scales in US-China trade war
Oil price crisis and its impact on US shale oil production is revealing where China and the US stand with their very different energy strategies.
Battery China Coronavirus Other Good Stuff Storage
IEA: Coronavirus ‘accelerating closure’ of ageing fossil-fuelled power plants
IEA says Covid-19 accelerating shutdown of older fossil-fuelled power plants and refineries, and provides opportunity to push for “more resilient, secure and sustainable energy path”.
China Coal Governments Hydrogen Storage
Chinese coal miner starts on world’s largest solar-powered hydrogen project
Chinese coal miner Baofeng Energy commences construction of what it believes will be the world’s largest solar-powered hydrogen plant.
China Climate Coal Renewables
China’s biggest power producers highlight perilous economics of coal power
As China debates role of coal in its next five year plan, results from its biggest power producers show coal generation to be costly and running at low capacity.
GCL System Integration is planning to build what would be the world’s largest solar PV module factory, capable of producing 60GW of solar panels each year.
China Governments Other Good Stuff Renewables Solar
China installed 30GW of new solar in 2019, 12GW in December alone
Reports show China managed to install 30GW of solar PV in 2019 – an unsurprising decrease on previous years, but buoyed by an impressive 12GW installed in December.
China Climate Coal Governments Markets
China – a few policy makers carry a heavy burden, but coal phase out is possible
Climate change is placing a heavy burden on China's policy-makers, but they have a potential roadmap to phase out coal and help cap warming at around 1.5°C.
Australian Federal Government China Climate Coal Governments
All eyes on Madrid, but they should be on China’s next 5-year energy plan
The climate talks in Madrid simply highlight how important China’s next electricity plan is for the world, for China and for Australia.
Forget about spies, China’s war on the world is visible in plain sight.
