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Turnbull electorate ranks second-last in Australia solar uptake
Poll of residents in Malcolm Turnbull’s Sydney seat of Wentworth finds strong support for renewables, despite the electorate having Australia’s second-lowest rate of rooftop solar uptake.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 14, 2016

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New York’s 50% renewable target by 2030 to add just one dollar to bills
Hitting the 50% renewables target is projected to add less than a dollar to the monthly electric bill of the average New Yorker.
Jackson Morris

Apr 14, 2016

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Other Good Stuff

UK solar generation tops coal for whole day for first time
The UK’s solar panels have generated more electricity than coal in a full day for the first time ever.
Simon Evans

Apr 14, 2016

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Australian gel-based battery technology attracts major UK finance
Plans by Australian nanotech start-up to commercialise revolutionary battery storage technology boosted by $11m UK investment.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 13, 2016

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Renewable energy market hurtles towards a penalty price
Without a staggering run of project commitments in the coming months, penalty payments for missing the renewable energy target appear inevitable in 2017.
Marco Stella

Apr 13, 2016

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Renewable-energy records in China suggest reshaping of global energy economy
In logging two new clean energy world records in 2015 – China is reshaping the global energy economy. And India is not far behind.
Tim Buckley

Apr 13, 2016

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Not dead yet: Miners want to “gasify” closed brown coal mine in SA
As SA nears 50% renewables, one company plans to “gasify” reserves of closed Leigh Creek coal mine, in hopes of building “baseload” gas plant.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 12, 2016

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Wind and solar knocked out German conventional power over Easter
With wind power production exceeding 20 gigawatts and solar also kicking in at above 10 gigawatts on Easter Sunday, conventional power generation was pushed dangerously low for a full 15 hours last Sunday.
Craig Morris

Apr 11, 2016

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Report calls for “ambitious, achievable” VRET of 30% by 2020
Friends of the Earth report says Victoria could achieve a renewable energy target of 30 per cent by 2020 just by maintaining current solar installations and wind energy pipelines.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 8, 2016

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Australia as a renewable energy superpower – the business case for zero emissions transition
The opportunities for Australia in this transition to zero emissions are enormous. Transitioning from the fossil fuel era to the renewable energy era will bring a range of economic opportunities.
Stephen Bygrave

Apr 4, 2016

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Why Australia should not abandon world-leading solar boost technology
There is nothing wrong with the technical fundamentals of the Linear Fresnel Reflector (LFR) technology. We should not throw solar babies out with the bath water.
Keith Lovegrove

Apr 1, 2016

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Wind and solar standouts in stellar year for renewables
Renewable energy set new records in 2015 for dollar investment, and all in a year in which prices of oil, coal and gas plummeted.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 25, 2016

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