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NSW launches emerging energy program to replace coal generation
NSW launches one of the most significant energy transition projects in Australia, with an Emerging Energy Program designed to help replace most of state’s ageing coal plants with wind, solar and storage over next 15 years.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 31, 2018

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Tasmania wind farm Australia’s first to use eagle protection technology
Goldwind Australia’s Cattle Hill Wind Farm to install cutting edge eagle detection technology, in effort to protect endangered Tasmanian Wedge-tailed Eagle.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 30, 2018

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SA-Best calls for wind farm ban, as it seeks to rekindle health concerns
Ghost of Xenophon lingers as party calls for moratorium on all new wind projects – and particularly Neoen’s Crystal Brook – amid new push for health inquiry.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 25, 2018

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Renewables

Billionaire calls out “total BS” on Morrison’s views of wind and solar
Mike Cannon-Brookes – he of the original Tesla big battery Tweet – calls “total BS” on Scott Morrison’s Sky News comments about wind and solar. Twitter does its thing.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 18, 2018

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Renewables

Monash Uni 100% renewable microgrid trial wins ARENA backing
ARENA tips $2.9m into trial with Monash University and technology partner Indra Australia to run Clatyon campus entirely on renewable energy.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 12, 2018

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Flow Power enters NSW market, with Sapphire wind farm PPA
Flow Power adds third wind project – in third state – to business retail energy portfolio, with contract with Sapphire wind farm in northern NSW.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 11, 2018

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Neoen halves wind component of SA renewable hydrogen superhub
Neoen Australia cuts wind power component of its proposed Crystal Brook Energy Park by “more than 50%”, ahead of State Commission Assessment Panel vote.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 9, 2018

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CleanTech Bites

White Rock solar farm begins production, completing latest wind-solar hybrid
White Rock solar farm begins producing electricity to the main grid, becoming the second wind-solar hybrid facility in the NEM.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 9, 2018

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Renewables

Judith Sloan’s nonsense attack on Victoria’s renewable energy scheme
Economist Judith Sloan launches another attack against renewables. Again, she has her facts hopelessly wrong.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 25, 2018

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Renewables

Neoen cites risk of class action against wind farms over South Australia blackout
French-owned renewable energy developer Neoen cites risk that wind farms in South Australia could face class action suit over state-wide blackout in September, 2016.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 21, 2018

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Work begins on Australia’s biggest and lowest cost wind farm
First concrete poured at site of one of Australia’s biggest, and lowest cost, wind energy developments – the 530MW Stockyard Hill Wind Farm in western Victoria.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 19, 2018

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Renewables

Clean Energy Regulator counts 9GW in big solar and wind pipeline
Latest CER data shows combined capacity of large-scale wind and solar energy projects in development pipeline now nudging 9GW.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 18, 2018

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