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Tasmania Labor pitches 120% renewables target, rooftop solar boost
Tasmania Labor unveils energy policy targeting 120% renewables, increased electricity exports, and an 80% boost to distributed resources like rooftop solar.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 16, 2018

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Markets

Which retailers will (and won’t) meet their 2017 LGC liability?
With a Wednesday deadline, things are getting tight for power companies to purchase and surrender enough LGCs to meet their liability. Has ERM got its act together?
Warwick Johnston

Feb 12, 2018

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Featured

Queensland chooses sunshine over coal, to relief of solar industry
Large-scale solar industry breathes sigh of relief after Queensland poll shows likely return of Palaszczuk government, and the retention of the state’s 50 per cent renewables target.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 26, 2017

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Solar

Rooftop solar changes unsettle industry, raising fears worse to come
Confusion over RET regulation changes has revealed large cracks in the faith of the renewable energy industry, which – still recovering from the Abbott years – is spooked by the National Energy Guarantee, and possible future policy changes, just as the market is hitting its stride.
Sophie Vorrath & Giles Parkinson

Nov 14, 2017

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Renewables

Victoria renewable target passes lower house – but Coalition vows to kill it
Victoria’s renewable energy target of 40% by 2025 has passed the lower house – but the state opposition has vowed to kill it if they get into power.
Sophie Vorrath

Sep 22, 2017

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Featured

Could Turnbull succeed where Abbott failed, and kill large scale wind and solar?
Federal government has trampled over several key Finkel measures it supposedly has adopted. But as experts plead with Coalition to allow AEMO and Energy Security Board to get on with job, Turnbull may deliver Abbott’s wish, and kill new renewable projects.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 13, 2017

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Renewables

Graph of the Day: States lead on renewables, but who leads the states?
Climate Council ranks state efforts on renewables and climate targets as they race to fill the federal government void.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 31, 2017

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Finkel’s Clean Energy Target plan ‘better than nothing’: economists poll
When the perfect is the enemy of the “roughly acceptable”: Economists back emissions policy that Alan Finkel has put on the table.
Bruce Mountain

Aug 25, 2017

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Victorian Government

Victoria plans 650MW renewable auction, plus two new solar farms
Andrews government unveils first of renewable energy auctions – for 650MW of wind and solar – and announces two new big solar farms, the 100MW Bannerton Solar Park near Robinvale in the Sunraysia district, and the 38MW Numurkah Solar Farm near Shepparton.
Giles Parkinson & Sophie Vorrath

Aug 23, 2017

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Commentary

National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it’s time to move on
The NEM has failed. Its very narrow economic objective was to provide low prices, reliable and safe energy, and to act in the long term interests of consumers. It hasn’t.
Alan Pears

Jul 17, 2017

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