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The Driven Podcast: What does the grid operator want to do with electric vehicles?
AEMO is looking at how electric vehicles fit into the grid. AEMO’s Greg Staib even imagines them used as batteries at peak times. Pity if you are trying to flag down a share car at the same time.
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Oil drilling in the Bight will signal an unsustainable future for humanity
Chief scientist delivers report into reviews of oil development in the Great Australian Bight. But he wasn’t asked to consider climate change.
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AEMO warns of added costs and delays to new solar projects in Victoria, NSW
AEMO warns of added costs and potential delays for new projects as it delves deeper into system strength issues that have already imposed limits on five major solar farms.
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Synergy blames solar for huge loss, but embraces renewable future
WA’s state owned gentailer Synergy has named the booming rooftop solar market as a key factor behind a huge loss and asset write down.
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Macquarie reveals five-year plan for massive investment in 20GW renewables
While Morrison obfuscates on climate in New York, Macquarie announces mammoth plan to finance 20GW of new renewables in five years.
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UK Labour’s Green New Deal is among most radical in world – but can it be done by 2030?
UK Labour sets net-zero emissions for 2030 that no serious climate policy expert thinks is either technologically or politically feasible.
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Spark Infrastructure appoints new chief financial officer
Spark Infrastructure today announces the appointment of Mr Gerard Dover as its new Chief Financial Officer, commencing on 8 October 2019.
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Vast Solar completes capital raise and wins international award for world-first dispatchable renewable energy technology
Australian concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) company Vast Solar has recently been awarded the CSP Technology Innovation Prize at the international CSPPLAZA Conference 2019 held in Suzhou, China.
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PV giant JinkoSolar targets 100% renewables by 2025
Chinese PV manufacturing giant says it “makes business sense” to shift its operations to 100% renewables by 2025 – we should hope so!
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Grid reform “urgent” in race to catch up with solar, batteries and EVs
AEMC unveils blueprint for “future energy grid” embracing rooftop solar, household batteries and electric vehicles, although its call for urgency rankles with those that see the rule-maker as a stumbling block in the past.
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Vestas wind turbine assembly plant opens at old Ford factory in Victoria
Wind turbines assembled on Australian soil for first time in more than 10 years, with launch of the Vestas Renewable Energy Hub in former centre for car manufacturing.
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Morrison’s lame Kyoto and reef defence drowned by stark UN oceans report
Morrison wants Australia’s climate “action” to be praised and children shielded from truth about climate impacts, just as new UN report reveals stark impacts on oceans and reefs.
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