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Commentary

Investing trillions in electricity’s sunny future
NNEF has just published its fourth annual New Energy Outlook with electricity’s future looking sunny — and windy, too — to the tune of trillions of dollars of new investment.
Nathaniel Bullard

Jun 21, 2017

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Commentary

Leading the charge: Battery storage to jump-start clean energy transition
Battery storage is set to jump-start the clean energy transition while at the same time disrupting the traditional utility business model.
Matt Rennie and Ian Wood

May 18, 2017

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Storage

Why grid based battery storage is already a no-brainer in Australia
BNEF says grid-based battery storage already very much in the money in Australia. It is a stunning cost fall that has caused AGL to reassess the future and join the CSIRO and the network owners in talking about 100 per cent renewable energy scenarios by 2030.
Giles Parkinson

May 5, 2017

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Backing new coal power like “defibrillating a corpse”
Rocky Mountain Institute’s Amory Lovins says attempts to reboot coal and nuclear power like defibrillating a corpse: “it will jump but won’t revive.”
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 19, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

Tesla, Mexican solar PV the stars of Q1 clean energy investment
A 754MW solar PV plant in Villanueva and Tesla’s stockmarket manoeuvres help drive a “tepid” Q1 of clean energy investment, says BNEF.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 12, 2017

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Featured

“Clean coal” most expensive new power supply, says BNEF (and not all that clean)
BNEF report latest to debunk Coalition clean coal plans, finding it to be super expensive, and not very clean (unless you add CCS, and then its ultra-super expensive). As for Turnbull’s argument that our grid needs more baseload…
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 3, 2017

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Renewables

Turning point: solar power now cheaper than wind energy
The inevitable has apparently happened; utility-scale solar-generated power appears to be cheaper than wind – and both are cheaper than fossil-fuel generated power.
Fereidoon Sioshansi

Jan 23, 2017

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Markets

Shift to “base-cost” renewables: 10 predictions for 2017
Old energy rules were all about locking in cheap base-load power, and supplementing it with more expensive capacity, generally gas, to meet the peaks. The new way is about putting in super-cheap, “base-cost” renewable power at the heart of the world’s grids.
Michael Liebreich and Angus McCrone

Jan 20, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

Wind, solar investment surge “the start of bigger things to come”
The strong growth in large scale renewable project financing in Australia could be just the beginning of major wave of investment, and points to RET being met by 2020.
Jonathan Gifford

Jan 18, 2017

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Markets

Australian renewables investment bucks global trend to grow 49% in 2016
After two disastrous years, investment in large scale renewable energy finally rebounded in Australia in 2016, and actually went against the global trend with a 50 per cent increase.
Jonathan Gifford

Jan 17, 2017

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Renewables

Offshore wind costs fall 22% in six months as EU auctions drive competition
BNEF report says offshore wind LCOE has fallen to a benchmark estimate of $126/MWh on the back of auction programs in Netherlands, Denmark.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 2, 2016

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Renewables

Global clean energy investment slumps 43% in Q3, year-on-year
After a record year in 2015, BNEF says “worryingly low” clean energy investment in Q3 2016 somewhere between a ‘flash crash’ blip, and ‘new normal’.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 11, 2016

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