@RenewEconomyRSSFeed a positive way to rest technology to improve energy efficiency and resilience. The sort of thing that you would expect government and academia to run.
#renewableenergy #climatechange #csiro #reneweconomy

@RenewEconomyRSSFeed Australia’s NEM prices regularly appear to be negative during daylight hours, not that you would notice in the power bill. The middle of the day power shoulder charge should be off-peak.
#reneweconomy #NEM

@RenewEconomyRSSFeed some progress and the sort of things that other organisations have used to turbocharge project delivery.
#renewableenergy #reneweconomy

@RenewEconomyRSSFeed it’s about time. #reneweconomy

@RenewEconomyRSSFeed interesting that the article doesn’t go into why the commissioning process won’t complete until fy23/24. Otherwise a good news story!
#renewableenergy #reneweconomy #battery

Victoria’s Labor government has announced it will pay landholders whose properties host new power transmission lines $8,000 per year per kilometer for 25 years, in a bid to help smooth the state’s transition to a 95% renewable grid by 2035. Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/victoria-sweetens-deal-on-transmission-build-out-with-promise-of-cash-for-landholders/

Snowy 2.0 is again making headlines with more delays, tunnelling problems and cost increases. So, on the eve of the sixth anniversary of its announcement in March 2017, let’s have a quick recap.
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/snowy-2-0-the-making-of-one-of-australias-most-spectacular-infrastructure-debacles/

Labor’s Safeguard policy is a mirror image of fossil industry #greenwashing
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol By @ketan
https://reneweconomy.com.au/labors-safeguard-policy-is-a-mirror-image-of-fossil-industry-greenwashing/

The Climate Council has called for the federal government to push to pause on new coal and gas projects as debate intensifies over Labor’s proposed safeguard mechanism reforms and as the credibility of carbon offset schemes is once again cast into doubt.
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/carbon-market-confusion-as-offsets-take-another-hit/

Stopping native logging in NSW could create $100 million in climate-related benefits annually, according to a new report released last week, compared to the $9 million the industry cost taxpayers in 2022.
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/not-logging-native-forests-could-deliver-billions-in-climate-benefits-study-says/

Are we witnessing a corporate Hindenburg?
Via #RenewEconomy #auspol #Adani
https://reneweconomy.com.au/adani-are-we-witnessing-a-corporate-hindenburg/

#Solar and #sheep “The future of regional Australia” and the key to better quality wool
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol https://reneweconomy.com.au/solar-and-sheep-the-future-of-regional-australia-and-the-key-to-better-quality-wool/

Australia has nearly 6GW of committed large-scale wind and solar projects in the development pipeline – that is, projects with all development approvals and financials in place – after a record amount of new capacity was added to the list in 2022.
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/big-solar-and-wind-pipeline-boosted-by-4-3gw-of-new-committed-projects-in-2022/

Danish company Rope Robotics has demonstrated that its wind turbine blade repairing robot yields a return on investment within six months, repairing turbine blades around four times faster at half the cost of traditional methods.
Via: #reneweconomy #auspoI
https://reneweconomy.com.au/turbine-blade-robot-makes-wind-farm-repairs-faster-cheaper-safer/

Tony Abbott, the former prime minister of Australia who trashed the country’s carbon price and tried to destroy other key clean energy policies and institutions, has joined the board of trustees of one of the world’s most notorious think tanks. Via #Reneweconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/we-need-more-science-tony-abbott-joins-board-of-climate-denial-think-tank/

Revising the generous fuel tax credits given to businesses should be a priority for the Albanese government, because keeping them would conflict with two other pressing priorities: reducing carbon emissions and repairing the budget.
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/fuel-tax-exemptions-make-no-sense-for-the-climate-or-the-economy/

A University of New South Wales developed online rooftop solar mapping tool has been opened up for use by households, small businesses and councils nationwide – for free – following a federal government-backed upgrade.
via #RenewEconomy
#Auspol
https://reneweconomy.com.au/unsw-rooftop-solar-mapping-tool-puts-power-in-consumer-hands-for-free/

Record solar and wind output is crushing coal in EU – and is already beating gas.
Via #RenewEconomy #Auspol #ClimateCrisis
https://reneweconomy.com.au/record-solar-and-wind-output-is-crushing-coal-in-eu-and-already-beating-gas/

Fossil giants tipped funds into major parties, but then the climate movement fought back
By: Michael Mazengarb Via #RenewEconomy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/fossil-giants-tipped-funds-into-major-parties-but-then-the-climate-movement-fought-back/

The Australian Energy Market Operator has published its latest connections data, showing 2.9 gigawatts (GW) of new capacity was connected in 2022, a slight rise over 2021 but with fewer and generally bigger projects.
#auspol #ClimateChange
Via #RenewEconomy
https://reneweconomy.com.au/australia-connects-3gw-of-new-capacity-in-2022-must-double-that-to-reach-renewable-target/