Governments
Australian Federal Government
Climate
Governments
Hydro
NSW Government
Renewables
Storage
Snowy board gives a tick to Snowy 2.0, as NSW and Tasmania turn focus on pumped hydro
Snowy board gives tick of approval to Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme, but final call remains with government owner, and Coalition not saying if the project stacks up.
Australian Federal Government
Governments
Why the energy regulator’s report into wholesale market prices is a joke
Energy regulator waves away claims of market abuse by big energy companies, but admits itself it doesn't know what's going on because it's not allowed to look.
Governments
Rooftop PV
Solar
Western Australian Government
“Australia first” rooftop solar trading trial kicks off in WA
Western Australia energy minister launches world-leading active, billed, peer-to-peer trading trial allowing 40 households to buy and sell rooftop solar, across the grid.
Electric Cars
Electric Vehicles
Governments
Sydney councils charge up electric vehicle infrastructure
Three councils in Sydney's eastern suburbs – Waverley, Woollahra and Randwick – join forces to install kerbside EV charging stations.
China
Governments
Renewables
Solar
Storage
Whyalla goes greener with $145m solar greenhouse, as Gupta effect grows
In a "big reveal" alongside GFG Alliance's Sanjeev Gupta, Whyalla City Council announces China-backed deal to build 70 hectare solar powered intensive horticulture facility.
Australia joins US to promote fossil fuels at UN climate conference - just days after remaining silent as US, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Kuwait refused to acknowledge a key...
Australian Federal Government
Governments
People
Tony Abbott
Forget “Big Sticks”, more competition will lower electricity prices
Tony Abbott, my opponent for the seat of Warringah at the next federal election, thinks building new coal fired power stations will reduce power prices. He is sadly mistaken.
CleanTech Bites
Climate
Governments
Fossil nations sideline science at Katowice, even as emissions rise and warming accelerates
In a deadly diplomatic strike, big oil and gas nations took a key scientific report out of the Katowice text, replacing it with an ambiguous formulation that merely notes...
Australian Federal Government
Climate
Governments
Markets
News & Commentary
Labor “safeguard mechanism 2.0” likely to be short, but cheaper than EU ETS
A scaled up ALP baseline-and-credit scheme for industry is modelled to be short from day one, with domestic offsets the marginal source of emissions reductions.
Governments
Markets
NSW Government
Other Good Stuff
NSW is on cusp of energy crisis, yet no-one seems to care
NSW is dependent on imports, its power stations are going to close, there is next to no transmission capacity to build more power and not much policy. Yet no...