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Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of Renew Economy, and is also the founder of One Step Off The Grid and founder/editor of The Driven. Giles has been a journalist for 35 years and is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review.
AGL Coal Markets News & Commentary Utilities
Loy Yang A unit returns, just in time for another blistering heat-wave
Unit 2 of AGL Energy's Loy Yang A to return to service this week after a seven month absence – in time for a major heatwave that will test...
Nevertire Solar Farm starts sending small amounts of its 132MW nameplate capacity to the grid from its location near Warren, in New South Wales' north-west.
Renewables reach 30 per cent of demand on Australia's main grid for whole week for the first time.
Australian Federal Government Coal Governments Markets Renewables Research Groups, Institutes and Universities
Coal seen as biggest threat to Victoria power supply
The biggest threat to Victoria’s future power supply comes not from more renewables, but unreliable brown coal power plants, and government efforts to prop up black coal units.
Share of wind and solar jumps to 18.7%, while share of coal falls an incredible 8% over 12 months.
Governments Queensland Government Solar Utility PV
Queensland Yarranlea solar farm completed, joins queue for network approval
Risen Energy joins "months-long" grid connection queue after completing construction of 121MW Yarranlea solar farm west of Toowoomba in August.
Governments Queensland Government Solar Utility PV
Another solar farm starts up in Queensland as daytime prices stuck near zero
Another solar farm joins Queensland's electricity grid as day-time wholesale prices remain at or below zero for lengthy periods.
As Australia's installed wind capacity rises, wind farms generating more than brown coal plants will happen reasonably often. And this dynamic is only heading in one direction.
Governments Markets News & Commentary Queensland Government Renewables
Mining giants seek huge wind and solar projects to justify CopperString 2.0
CopperString 2.0 announces "market sounding" for group of major mining companies seeking one million MWh a year of renewable electricity generation over 10 years.
John Laing's 175MW Finley Solar Farm – the $170m project contracted to sell power to BlueScope Steel – has begun sending power to the NSW grid.
