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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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Policy & Planning

Turnbull Government is wrong to pretend we can burn our way to climate safety
We are in the midst of experiencing the impacts of dangerous global warming, which made it all the more jarring when the Federal Government came out championing the big polluters that are driving global warming.
Shane Rattenbury

Jan 19, 2017

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Markets

Clean energy spending drops, green bonds make splash, New York funds projects
Worldwide spending on clean energy fell 18 percent from 2015’s record high. However, even as spending ebbs, the amount of wind and solar connected to power grids around the world is still climbing.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Jan 18, 2017

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Nuclear

New York aims to replace nuclear power with clean energy
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo promises declining carbon emissions even as the state closes the Indian Point nuclear power plant.
Jeremy Deaton

Jan 16, 2017

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Barack Obama

Obama just made the case for his clean energy legacy
Obama sees the world as at a tipping point and that a clean energy revolution is already underway.
Brian Kahn

Jan 16, 2017

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Renewables

10 clean energy facts
Tired of endlessly debating Australia’s energy future? Here are 10 things we really know about energy to guide us through the policy fog.
Alan Pears

Dec 21, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Rinehart attacks as Turnbull capitulates on carbon price
This week in climate and energy policy, we are left in no doubt where power lies in Conservative government decision making.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 7, 2016

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Donald Trump

Can Donald Trump really make the clean energy tide recede?
No matter how much Trump waves his magic wand there’s not much he can do to revive the prospects for thermal coal.
Bob Burton

Nov 24, 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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Renewables

Australians want governments to make a plan for transition from coal to clean energy
72% of Australians believe it is inevitable the country’s current coal-fired power stations will be closed and replaced with renewable energy. The real question is, how should we manage this transition?
Olivia Kember

Sep 27, 2016

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