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Emerging clean energy technologies like energy storage, green hydrogen and digitisation platforms may be the key to dodging a global network infrastructure supply crunch and avoiding delays in the energy transition.

Australian Greens founder and award winning environmentalist Bob Brown has slammed the organisers of an anti-renewables rally planned for outside federal parliament next week, and demanded they stop using his name and image to promote a protest he says has been “hijacked by the coal lobby.”...

Australian households are already the biggest adopters of rooftop solar panels in the world, and the technology already provides all of local demand in some states at certain times, and more than 11 per cent of total grid demand over the past year....

Australia came close to introducing a carbon emissions trading scheme two decades ago before John Howard swept in to scuttle the plan....

An original design for renewable power generation was developed in 2010 and relied mainly on wind generation with a couple of 100 kilowatts of solar....

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It says something of the hopefulness that still binds human society that the world thought it could turn up to the home ground of the world’s biggest petrol-states and expect them to sign up to a deal that would end the gushing riches that flow from their fossil fuel pipelines....

Vast’s CSP 3.0 technology, demonstrated at a 1.1MW pilot plant in Jemalong in NSW, uses modular arrays of solar towers and receivers to capture and store energy from the sun and use it provide electricity and heat....

Just thought it was interesting to see the nuts and bolts of these decisions. Things can be Interesting and horrifying at the same time, I guess.

A bold plan to spend $30 billion over ten years on wind, solar and storage and drag at least one of Australia’s big energy utilities into the promised green energy future has been formally laid to rest – a triumph, if that’s the word, of greed over climate concerns....

False information is threatening climate decision-making at a crucial international summit, according to researchers....