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Contested big battery with up to 10 hours of storage gets final green light

Construction of the LTESA-winning battery is set to start this year after the federal government gave the project the environmental green light.

Rachel Williamson

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Snowy preps market for very big blowout in Snowy 2.0 costs, with response to a question no one is asking

Snowy has commissioned a report saying how important its Snowy 2.0 project is for the grid. Actually, we just want to know the size of the bill.

Giles Parkinson

Huge gigawatt-scale, four-hour battery secures state development approval for coal country

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Huge gigawatt-scale, four-hour battery secures state development approval for coal country

Plans to build a massive new big battery with up to four hours of storage has secured development approval from state government authorities.

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Households still going big on solar and storage, but new battery rebate settings calm red-hot market

Changes to Cheaper Home Batteries scheme takes some heat out of a red-hot market – for both home solar and storage – but the numbers are still high.

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Limondale eight hour battery

What’s the difference between a four-hour battery and an eight-hour battery? Not a lot, it turns out

How did a bunch of four-hour battery projects beat out gas and win a tender for eight-hour storage contracts? It’s not what it says on the tin that counts, it’s how you use it.

Giles Parkinson

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Battery

Taiwan energy company enters Australia with deal to roll out 10 small solar and battery projects

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Taiwan energy company enters Australia with deal to roll out 10 small solar and battery projects

New deal to roll out a series of sub-5 MW solar and battery projects highlights growing investor interest developing assets on the distributed energy grid.

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Contested big battery with up to 10 hours of storage gets final green light

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Contested big battery with up to 10 hours of storage gets final green light

Construction of the LTESA-winning battery is set to start this year after the federal government gave the project the environmental green light.

Rachel Williamson

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Snowy preps market for very big blowout in Snowy 2.0 costs, with response to a question no one is asking

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Snowy preps market for very big blowout in Snowy 2.0 costs, with response to a question no one is asking

Snowy has commissioned a report saying how important its Snowy 2.0 project is for the grid. Actually, we just want to know the size of the bill.

Giles Parkinson

Huge gigawatt-scale, four-hour battery secures state development approval for coal country

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Huge gigawatt-scale, four-hour battery secures state development approval for coal country

Plans to build a massive new big battery with up to four hours of storage has secured development approval from state government authorities.

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Pumped Hydro

Snowy preps market for very big blowout in Snowy 2.0 costs, with response to a question no one is asking

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Snowy preps market for very big blowout in Snowy 2.0 costs, with response to a question no one is asking

Snowy has commissioned a report saying how important its Snowy 2.0 project is for the grid. Actually, we just want to know the size of the bill.

Giles Parkinson

Labor slams Coalition’s “back of envelope” Snowy 2.0 estimates as wait continues for latest cost blowout

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Policy & Planning

Labor slams Coalition’s “back of envelope” Snowy 2.0 estimates as wait continues for latest cost blowout

Federal Labor hits back at LNP criticism of Snowy 2.0 cost blowouts with a reminder that it was a Coalition government that signed off on the project based on “back of an envelope” calculations.

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State launches its biggest ever renewable tender “to keep lights on” and push down prices

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State launches its biggest ever renewable tender “to keep lights on” and push down prices

NSW formally launches its largest ever renewables tender, as well as long duration storage as it that it says is essential to replace coal, “keep the lights on”

Giles Parkinson

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Coal state’s biggest renewable tender to focus on power delivered when the sun don’t shine

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Coal state’s biggest renewable tender to focus on power delivered when the sun don’t shine

Biggest generation tender will favour technologies that can deliver power when the sun don’t shine – solar-battery hybrids and wind energy, as more storage also sought.

Giles Parkinson

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Solar Thermal

“Proud moment:” Australian solar thermal pioneer powers up hybrid hydro system in Brazil

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“Proud moment:” Australian solar thermal pioneer powers up hybrid hydro system in Brazil

Australian solar innovator powers up a demonstration of its unique technology using concentrated solar to produce and store electricity and heat in a first international project.

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“Arguably a world first:” Historic solar thermal plant lines up for heritage listing

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“Arguably a world first:” Historic solar thermal plant lines up for heritage listing

Australia’s first commercially operated solar thermal power station and one of the first of its kind in the world is being considered for heritage listing.

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Australian concentrated solar thermal hopeful put into voluntary administration, buyers sought

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Australian concentrated solar thermal hopeful put into voluntary administration, buyers sought

Plans for a huge concentrated solar thermal project near Port Augusta dealt new blow, this time with new of an Australian company put into administration.

Giles Parkinson

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Coal giant snaps up solar thermal project in landmark deal for long duration storage technology

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Coal giant snaps up solar thermal project in landmark deal for long duration storage technology

AGL snaps up a newly approved concentrated solar thermal project as it considers long duration storage options in first grid to reach 100 pct net renewables.

Giles Parkinson