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Councils call for national climate compensation fund – and they want the polluters to pay
Local governments want a national fund to help pay for the soaring costs of climate adaptation and disaster management – and they want it paid for by a tax on the coal, oil and gas industries.
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Demand response trials could open up more than 1 gigawatt of extra grid capacity
This may be one of the most important trials underway today, at least if data centres are to provide the grid services they promise.
“Too complex, too hard, too often unfair:” Plan to reform electricity pricing backs contentious tariff changes
AEMC pushes ahead with a hotly contested recommendation to reform how network costs are recovered from customers, while opting to put dodgy retailer behaviour to the sunlight test, rather than banning it.
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Councils call for national climate compensation fund – and they want the polluters to pay
Local governments want a national fund to help pay for the soaring costs of climate adaptation and disaster management – and they want it paid for by a tax on the coal, oil and gas industries.
Demand response trials could open up more than 1 gigawatt of extra grid capacity
This may be one of the most important trials underway today, at least if data centres are to provide the grid services they promise.“Too complex, too hard, too often unfair:” Plan to reform electricity pricing backs contentious tariff changes
AEMC pushes ahead with a hotly contested recommendation to reform how network costs are recovered from customers, while opting to put dodgy retailer behaviour to the sunlight test, rather than banning it.
Must do better: Bowen seeks rule change to force energy retailers to do right thing by electricity customers
Federal energy minister seeks principles-based rule change to ensure retailers are doing more than just the bare minimum to engage with electricity customers.
Contested wind project pivots turbines and cuts footprint after discovering more endangered cycads
Wind farm developer has shaved 110 hectares off its footprint after working with EPBC planners to improve the environmental credentials of the contested project.
Zero interest loans launched to help lower income homes get off gas with solar, batteries, insulation
State government launches Home Energy Saver program offering zero-interest loans of up to $15,000 to help pay for upgrades including rooftop solar, batteries, electric appliances and insulation.
Farmers welcome “nation-leading” guidelines for wind, solar and batteries – but warn they are not binding
Greater transparency between neighbours and better coordination across industry sectors are among a new set of “best practice” standards renewables developers are expected to meet in this state.
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