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Video of the Day: The Bald Hills wind farm
A time-lapse video of the construction of one of the 52 turbines at Australia’s most recently constructed wind farm.
Sam Parkinson

Aug 27, 2015

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Ergon to buy 150MW of renewable capacity for Queensland grid
Queensland’s government-owned regional utility, Ergon Energy, confirms tender for 150MW of new solar, wind or hydro capacity to be added to its grid.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 24, 2015

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Victorian Government

Victorian government backs wind energy, rooftop solar rights
Andrews government renewables plan promises to drive new investment in wind farms, reduce network barriers to take-up of rooftop solar and storage.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 21, 2015

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Abbott’s hatred of wind farms scares off NZ’s biggest power company
The co-developer of Australia’s biggest wind farm sees no future for wind energy in Australia because of Abbott government’s “antipathy” to renewables.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 19, 2015

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How Texas wind farms are putting intermittency concerns to rest
Concern over the limits of wind energy penetration, due to its intermittent nature, could be put to rest by new data from the US DOE.
Clayton Handleman

Aug 17, 2015

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Second ACT wind auction launched for 200MW more capacity
ACT govt opens second wind auction round, to develop a further 200MW of wind energy projects across Australia’s National Electricity Market.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 10, 2015

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Commentary

Senators want federal health body sidelined on wind turbine investigations
The Federal Government has been urged to set up a stand-alone scientific committee to investigate the health effects of wind farm noise.
Adrian Rollins

Aug 4, 2015

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CleanTech Bites

States reject Coalition and cross-bench crack-down on wind farms
States reject Coalition and cross-bench push to treat wind farm “noise” in same way as particulates from coal mines, and rejected call for uniform laws.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 17, 2015

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Construction begins on Australia’s lowest cost wind farm
Construction begins on lowest cost wind farm in Australia, and the first to be financed and built since the election of the Abbott government more than 18 months ago.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 3, 2015

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Goldwind to build 175MW wind farm, first big project north of Sydney
Chinese wind giant Goldwind to begin construction later this year of first major wind farm to be built north of Sydney.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 2, 2015

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Featured

Abbott government continues ‘jaw-boning’ of wind farm sector
Environment minister Greg Hunt refuses to endorse wind farms, saying health impacts will be decided by Senate inquiry. On the future of wind energy in Australia, Hunt also refused to be drawn, pointing only to the falling cost of solar.
Giles Parkinson

Jun 15, 2015

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CleanTech Bites

Coalition looks to push solar instead of wind in revised RET
Abbott government looking to accelerate large scale solar to appease Coaliton hatred of wind farms. Using CEFC to lower cost of finance is one option.
Giles Parkinson

Jun 11, 2015

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