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IEA makes mockery of Turnbull’s renewable energy scare campaign
IEA makes mockery of Turnbull government’s renewable energy scare campaigns, saying that 60% of world’s electricity will come from renewable energy if climate targets are to be met.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 16, 2016

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CleanTech Bites

Queensland’s first large-scale wind farm reaches financial close
The first large scale wind farm in Queensland gets financial backing and will begin construction next month.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 2, 2016

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Renewables

Catching the waves: it’s time for Australia to embrace ocean renewable energy
Wind and solar may be currently leading the way in Australia’s renewable energy race, but there’s another contender lurking in the nation’s oceans.
The Conversation

Oct 18, 2016

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Featured

BHP swallows Lomborg line and sells itself short on wind and solar
BHP Billiton says wind and solar are heralding the “dawn” of an energy revolution. But a dawn is all it can see, because it predicts fossil fuels will still account for 80% of energy needs by 2040. Surely it’s time to get serious.
Giles Parkinson

Oct 11, 2016

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Storage

Coalition launches fierce attack against wind and solar after blackout
Ideology rules as Coalition, One Nation and Xenophon use South Australia blackout as an excuse to launch new attack on wind and solar. Turnbull and Frydenberg repeat call for Labor states to cancel “unrealistic” renewable targets.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 29, 2016

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CleanTech Bites

Big W.A. blackout can’t be blamed on renewables, doesn’t make headlines
The failure of a gas generator in Western Australia affected more people for a longer period than an outage in South Australia last year. So where were the Murdoch headlines?
Giles Parkinson

Sep 23, 2016

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Markets

Does South Australia’s wind output rule the NEM?
Our analysis suggests that wind exported from South Australia is pushing down prices across the National Electricity Market by a much as 10 per cent.
David Leitch

Sep 22, 2016

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Renewables

China solar and wind capacity crosses 200GW
China’s wind power capacity has reached 140GW, while total solar capacity has jumped by nearly half to 65GW.
Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Aug 3, 2016

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Storage

Windlab to build world-leading solar-wind-storage hybrid project in Qld
The era of solar and wind storage is already here, with Windlab to begin construction of world-leading wind-solar-battery storage complex in north Queensland.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 26, 2016

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Commentary

ARENA provides $10m funding for first wind-solar hybrid project
ARENA to provide $10m to Chinese wind giant to build Australia’s first hybrid wind-solar farm, although grant is nearly four times more than being asked by projects in large scale solar tender.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 26, 2016

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Markets

How gas generators cashed in on South Australia’s “energy crisis”
New analysis shows how gas generators cashed in on the recent big spikes in wholesale electricity prices in Australia. But they were not the only ones to benefit. The regulator is investigating to check that all is above board, but it’s complicated.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 22, 2016

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Renewables

Gas generators called out for exploiting NEM flaw, creating “obscene price spikes”
The Australia Institute says gas are generators are driving “obscene” power price spikes by choosing to exploit an energy market failure, rather than fulfil their role of complementing renewables.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 20, 2016

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