Wind

Chart of the day

Solar pushes renewables to record share of grid, coal hits new low despite highest spring demand
Renewables hit new record high of 75.9 per cent, sending coal to a record low despite usually strong spring electricity demand.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 7, 2024

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Renewables

“Not always a great quality:” Leading wind developer may switch from western to Chinese turbines
One of Australia’s leading wind farm developers may switch to Chinese made turbines, saying it is not happy with quality, service and prices of western suppliers.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 6, 2024

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Policy & Planning

NSW approves supersized 1.3 GW wind project with fewer but bigger turbines
NSW gives planning approval for amended proposal to boost rated capacity of a gigawatt scale wind project by nearly half with fewer but bigger turbines.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 4, 2024

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Australia’s best performing wind and solar farms in October
Best performing wind farms split between north, south, east and west, but the solar results were more predictable.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 3, 2024

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Policy & Planning

Broken Hill fiasco shows why we need to rethink the grid, and turn it upside down
Broken Hill is back on the grid, ahead of schedule. It wasn’t quite Mad Max, but the outages and lack of resilience are highlighting calls for a complete rethink of the grid – starting with consumer.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 1, 2024

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Commentary

We need lots of wind as well as batteries to move peak prices lower
Wind has had the biggest impact on lowering prices in peak periods. But we need more of it, even more than battery storage.
David Leitch

Nov 1, 2024

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Renewables

Danish wind giant Vestas unveils plans for 2.5 GW wind and 4 GWh battery project in NSW
Danish giant is seeking approval to build a massive wind farm in southern New South Wales that would combine up to 348 turbines and two four-hour big batteries.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 1, 2024

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Forrest gets planning approval for $2 billion wind and big battery project in central west
Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy passes another planning hurdle for its proposed 700 MW wind farm and 1800 MWh battery project in NSW.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 1, 2024

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Renewables

Forrest’s Squadron Energy unveils massive new wind and battery project for NSW
Squadron Energy adds yet another massive wind energy and battery proposal to its project pipeline, this time west of Yass.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 30, 2024

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Chart of the day

Graph of the Day: The massive wind and solar project pipeline the LNP may abandon
Queensland has more than 120 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage projects in the pipeline. Will the newly elected LNP abandon them all?
Giles Parkinson

Oct 29, 2024

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Renewables

“We’re dealing with outrage:” Calls for industry to shape up as policy uncertainty dogs shift to renewables
Wind and solar developers are being met with “outrage” in regional communities, as political uncertainty and the nuclear debate take a toll on social licence.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 24, 2024

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Wind

Massive renewables hub gets all clear from locals, but long distance activists complain about the view
Massive wind and battery project attracts nearly 100 hundred objections, but none from locals and most from people who don’t live anywhere near the project.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 18, 2024

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