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“Reset 3.0” doesn’t answer the biggest questions about Snowy’s $25 billion-plus pumped hydro gamble
Engineering marvel or financial folly? We’ve been here before – a cost blowout and a delay to Snowy 2.0 – but is there a point of no return for this giant project?Batteries and cells: Whether on wheels or the grid, it’s all about chemistry and cost
Lithium turned the battery industry from powering torches to running the country, and an ever increasing share of the world’s car industry. And it’s still rapidly evolving.
Batteries start to drive up midday prices, outstripping the fall in evening peaks
Midday prices rose from around zero to $25–30 in the last 30 days, and that outweighed a fall in the evening peak. That is the big battery impact.
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“Reset 3.0” doesn’t answer the biggest questions about Snowy’s $25 billion-plus pumped hydro gamble
Engineering marvel or financial folly? We’ve been here before – a cost blowout and a delay to Snowy 2.0 – but is there a point of no return for this giant project?
Batteries and cells: Whether on wheels or the grid, it’s all about chemistry and cost
Lithium turned the battery industry from powering torches to running the country, and an ever increasing share of the world’s car industry. And it’s still rapidly evolving.Batteries start to drive up midday prices, outstripping the fall in evening peaks
Midday prices rose from around zero to $25–30 in the last 30 days, and that outweighed a fall in the evening peak. That is the big battery impact.
High Court coal mine ruling factors in exported emissions. Why isn’t federal Labor doing the same?
The Albanese government is making great strides on clean energy, while at the same time supporting the ongoing betrayal of future generations through fossil fuel approvals.
Consumers need renewables, but the gentailers are going for gas – and the ESEM cavalry is still over the horizon
Australia’s major gentailers show no interest in wind and solar, the new market mechanism will arrive too late and governments will be forced to step in.
Gas networks want Victoria to stall electrification. Households and industry should hope it doesn’t oblige
As more and more Victorian households quit gas, there remain real and unresolved questions about who bears the cost of abandoned pipelines. Slamming the brakes on electrification isn’t the solution.
How do we power the data centre boom while also quitting coal? There are three options
How do we get the renewables and AI industries to work together to build out energy and digital infrastructure? There are three options, all with pros and cons.
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