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Policy & Planning

Australia must slash emissions by 68 pct by 2030, quit coal five years later to meet 1.5°C target
New modelling from Climateworks shows Australia can stay aligned with the Paris target of limiting warming to 1.5°C, but only if much of the heavy lifting is done by 2030.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 14, 2023

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Policy & Planning

China’s emissions set to fall in 2024 after record growth in clean energy
New analysis shows a fall in China’s CO2 emissions is all but guaranteed in 2024, thanks to a historic expansion of low-carbon energy installations.
Lauri Myllyvirta

Nov 14, 2023

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Coal

Solar records tumble across the grid, stretches midday gap over coal to nearly 10 GW
Solar output records tumble across the grid on Friday, with the gap between solar power and coal output stretching to nearly 10 GW at one stage.
Geoff Eldridge

Nov 11, 2023

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Policy & Planning

“Nobody is safe:” Burning of fossil fuels send global temperatures to hottest on record
“People know that things are weird, but they don’t they don’t necessarily know why it’s weird. They don’t connect back to the fact that we’re still burning coal, oil and natural gas.”
Isabella O’Malley

Nov 10, 2023

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Queensland grid hits a new solar peak – 71.2 per cent of state demand
Queensland grid hits a new solar peak of 71.2 per cent, relegating coal to a minor role in the middle of the day.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 10, 2023

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Bigger or better: Are newer wind farms outperforming older ones?
In theory, bigger and more technologically advanced wind turbines should mean improved generation efficiency. But is this playing out in reality?
Dan Lee

Nov 10, 2023

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Gas industry reached for tobacco playbook after science showed that gas stoves are harmful
The gas industry was told by science in the 1970s that gas stoves were harmful to health, so it reached into the tobacco industry’s playbook of denial.
Jonathan Levy

Nov 7, 2023

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Solar

Could quantum mechanics make energy technology faster, better and more efficient?
Advances in quantum mechanics could lead to breakthroughs in solar, battery and grid management technology.
Amalyah Hart

Nov 2, 2023

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Policy & Planning

Carbon budget for 1.5°C will run out in six years at current emissions levels: new research
New scientific study finds that if humanity wants a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit another 250 gigatonnes of CO2.
Chris Smith & Robin Lamboll

Nov 2, 2023

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Storage

Australian battery materials company wins $100m US government grant
ASX-listed battery materials upstart finalises a $US100 million US government grant, just weeks after securing funds from the Canadian government.
Joshua S Hill

Nov 2, 2023

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Solar

“New era:” SunDrive wins funds to scale up Australia made solar cell production
“Making more things here:” SunDrive gets federal funding boost towards commercial production of its lower-cost, high efficiency solar cells, on Australian soil.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 1, 2023

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Policy & Planning

Beetaloo gas field is a climate bomb. How did the modelling make it look otherwise?
A Murdoch University deep dive into the CSIRO Beetaloo report found its emissions projections are underestimates of up to 84% in some cases.
Bill Hare

Nov 1, 2023

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