Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Lismore opens Australia’s largest floating solar farm, could add storage
Lismore opens country’s biggest solar farm, and flags five fold increase in size and may add battery storage. The unique community funding model forms a key part of city’s push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2023.
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Despite those big bills, networks still most likely cause of blackouts
Reaction to Victoria outages emphasise two points: One is that despite spending tens of billions, and inflating everyone’s power bills, networks are still the biggest cause of blackouts. And two, the tolerance of such outages is close to zero.
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Explainer: power station ‘trips’ are normal, but blackouts are not
Tens of thousands of Victorians were left without power over the long weekend as the distribution network struggled with blistering temperatures, reigniting fears about the stability of our energy system.
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Tesla big battery now has it own widget to show charge and discharge
The Tesla big battery now has a widget to show its ground-breaking activities – rapid charge and discharge – on Australian energy market.
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Australia risks missing out on lithium battery boom
Report warns Australia must act quickly to take advantage of its leading position in the global lithium resources market, or risk missing out on what could be a $2 trillion value supply chain.
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A regulatory blow to Spain’s subsidised coal-fired electricity sector
Security-of supply justifications are seen in Spain as just political schemes to support the status quo. Hello Australia.
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The solar market consolidation that never happened
Remember the predictions that the solar market would consolidate from 4000 businesses to four or forty major solar companies serving the Australian market? The opposite happened.
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70 Council representing 7.5M take climate action
The Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership, Australia’s fastest-growing national climate program for local government, today welcomed 35 new councils to the fight against climate change.
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JinkoSolar interviewed by CNN as global leader in solar
JinkoSolar today announced that it participated in an exclusive interview with CNN as part of the network’s Marketplace: Middle East program. which focuses on business developments in the Middle East reason.
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Graph of the Day: Green bonds soar to record $163bn in 2017
Annual issuance of green bonds not only passed $100bn in 2017, it sailed right past it, says BNEF, driven by 67% yoy growth.
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Victorian networks blow a fuse in heatwave – Coalition blows its mind on Twitter
Victoria’s blackouts on Sunday had nothing to do with any crisis of energy supply – coal, renewable or otherwise. But why let the truth get in the way of a good smear campaign?
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Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal
Tender by major US utility puts the cost of wind plus battery storage and solar plus battery storage below the cost of existing coal plants. It indicates that the cost of large-scale battery storage have fallen by more than half in the past year.
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