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Malcolm Turnbull

Turnbull leads attack on wind as Coalition readies carbon price backflip
Malcolm Turnbull joins right wing bloggers in blaming wind energy for last week’s blackout. It seems renewable energy will be sacrificed as Coalition admits Direct Action is a farce, prepares the ground for a baseline and credit scheme. And more gas and more coal.
Giles Parkinson

Dec 5, 2016

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Renewables

RET “achievable”, but renewables finance still a problem
Clean Energy Regulator says 2020 RET achievable, but warns retailers to meet their obligations, or be “named and shamed”.
Sophie Vorrath

Oct 5, 2016

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Renewables

Attacks on wind and solar policies turn to state initiatives
Having obliterated almost all the effective federal climate and renewables policies, the focus is now switching to state-based targets, using the old arguments of higher costs and little abatement.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 26, 2016

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Renewables

10 Pacific Island Nations with RETs much more ambitious than Australia
Many of Australia’s nearest neighbours in the Pacific Islands have far more ambitious renewable energy targets.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 26, 2016

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Solar

Large-scale solar could meet two-thirds of Australia’s renewable target
First Solar’s Jack Curtis says “aggressive” investor appetite for Australian big solar could see it deliver up to 4GW of remaining RET.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 12, 2016

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Renewables

Engineering group Monadelphous turns to renewables after resources boom ends
ASX-listed engineering group joins with ZEM Energy to form new company focused on developing large-scale renewables projects in the race to meet the RET.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 4, 2016

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Policy & Planning

Will Australia’s Far Right lose its stranglehold on climate policies?
2016 election sees one bunch of climate deniers turfed out, only to be replaced by another. But will the diminished Malcolm Turnbull still be beholden to his party’s right-wing, Abbott-era climate and clean energy policies, or can he follow the UK’s lead and find middle ground?
Giles Parkinson

Jul 4, 2016

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Renewables

Which power retailers are short of LGCs to meet the Renewable Energy Target
Which power retailers are going to be left short of their legal obligations under the Renewable Energy Target and by how much?
Tristan Edis

Jun 27, 2016

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Renewables

The RET is a high cost way to procure renewable energy
The current mechanism for the renewable energy target is costly and inefficient. Here’s an explanation why, and what would work better and mean more wind and solar and lower costs for consumers.
David Leitch

Jun 24, 2016

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Labor seeks to thrust renewable energy onto centre stage
Labor says it will award long term power purchase agreements to ensure the Commonwealth lifts its share of renewables to 50% by 2030.
Sophie Vorrath

Jun 2, 2016

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