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Smart Energy

“Boot-camp” for clean energy start-ups launched in Melbourne
A new start-up accelerator program dedicated entirely to fast-tracking the commercialisation of innovative energy market technologies and solutions has been launched in Australia.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 3, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Innovation, disruption and the utility business model
The power sector’s rapid transformation has barely started, but implications for incumbents are beginning to be felt and speculated.
Fereidoon Sioshansi

Jul 26, 2017

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Other Good Stuff

Ciel & Terre starts construction on world’s largest floating PV plant
The French floating PV specialist is building a 70 MW solar facility in China’s Anhui province.
Emiliano Bellini

Jun 28, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

EnergyLab proposes first incubator for Australian clean energy ideas
EnergyLab proposes Australia’s first incubator for clean energy technologies and business ideas, with support from California Clean Energy Fund.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 24, 2016

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Renewables

Was the renewables industry better off under Abbott than Turnbull?
The new parliament session has begun, and little has changed. Large scale renewables remain at a standstill and the Coalition government is still pushing for the removal of CEFC, ARENA, and the Climate Change Authority. Has anything changed under Malcolm Turnbull?
Giles Parkinson

Feb 2, 2016

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Innovation? Technologies already exist for 100% renewables
The Coalition, and others, suggest more innovation is needed before we pursue a high renewables path. This professor says we already have the technologies.
Giles Parkinson

Dec 9, 2015

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VW is a symptom of widespread automotive disruption
VW scandal is a symptom of the reality that internal combustion cars, have reached the limits of effective compromises that will satisfy regulators and consumers.
Mike Barnard

Oct 19, 2015

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Scientists are using your smoking habit to make renewable energy
To help break the world’s addiction to fossil fuels, scientists are channeling another harmful addiction: smoking cigarettes.
Emily Atkin

Aug 12, 2014

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Could this glass orb be the future of solar energy?
Apart from being aesthetically more pleasing than a standard photovoltaic solar panel, this stand-alone solar energy generator is also 35% more efficient.
Emily Atkin

Feb 13, 2014

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