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Policy & Planning

Solar Sunshot: Albanese pledges $1bn to take Australia from “pit to panel”
Federal Labor puts its money on Australian made solar, pledging $1bn to kickstart the supply chain in regions like the NSW Hunter.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 27, 2024

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Policy & Planning

“No excuses:” Australia urged to exit coal, double rooftop solar by 2030 in accelerated push to net zero
Major new report maps out a path for Australia to deliver a 75% emissions cut below 2005 levels by 2030, and net zero by 2035.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 27, 2024

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Policy & Planning

Australia’s rooftop solar waste problem is hurtling towards 1.2 gigawatts a year
Australia’s solar waste problem is arriving quicker than thought, with volumes of discarded panels expected to be equivalent to 1.2GW a year by 2030.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 26, 2024

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Renewables

A town like Alice. How a complex, isolated solar grid could provide blueprint for rest of Australia
Alice Springs’ complex isolated grid could provide roadmap on how to manage system and regulatory change as well as technology in the transition to renewables.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 25, 2024

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Renewables

South Australia’s world-leading renewable transition is attracting flood of new industry
South Australia expects to double grid demand as new industry floods to the state, lured by low cost clean energy and its accelerated 100 pct renewables target.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 20, 2024

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Market operator explains why the lights won’t go out with wind, solar and storage
The federal Coalition insists the lights will go out in transition to wind and solar. AEMO has now released a video explaining why they won’t, following CSIRO’s defence of science.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 20, 2024

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Policy & Planning

Rooftop solar ducks would eat nuclear’s lunch. So will Coalition slow PV or pay to store it?
In a grid reshaped by wind and solar, and rooftop PV in particular, there is a lot of space for fast and flexible “firming” capacity, but not for baseload technologies like nuclear.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 19, 2024

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Policy & Planning

“Prohibitive:” Australia’s biggest energy consumers and producers say no to nuclear, but is Coalition listening?
The biggest utilities and the biggest energy consumers say they don’t want nuclear. So who does the Coalition expect to pay for it?
Giles Parkinson

Mar 18, 2024

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Renewables

CSIRO defends GenCost – and science – as Coalition and Murdoch go nuclear against key institutions
Coalition’s repeated attacks prompts CSIRO boss to publish an open letter defending GenCost report, and science in general, as country’s biggest energy consumer, and AGL reject the technology as too costly.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 15, 2024

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Policy & Planning

“It takes too long:” Solar and wind farm blockers to be weeded out to fast-track renewable projects
Victoria premier says planning delays have meant that instead of spinning turbines, “we’re too often left spinning our wheels.”
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 14, 2024

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Renewables

Australia’s biggest smelter to launch massive wind and solar tender, says nuclear too costly
The biggest single energy consumer in Australia, the Tomago smelter, is about to launch a massive tender for wind and solar. It says nuclear is too expensive.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 13, 2024

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Storage

Not enough droughts and hefty network charges: The big barriers to grid storage
Two new studies identify major potholes for storage along the road towards a 100 per cent renewable energy grid.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 12, 2024

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