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Updated: Rooftop solar continues to have major impact on the grid, meeting nearly half of all demand and sending black coal output and operational demand to record lows.

Federal Labor has binned hundreds of millions of Kyoto “carryover” carbon credits, permanently removing the option for them to be used in to shrink Australia’s emissions reduction task and shirk its climate responsibilities....

The New South Wales Labor government has confirmed it will turn to consumers and local and shared storage as part of its plans to spend $1.8 billion to fast track its response to the proposed closure of the country’s biggest coal generator in two years time....

The fight over “net zero” at the National Party over the weekend was all a bit of a charade. Yes, it garnered attention from mainstream media, but it was essentially meaningless....

Interesting mix of technology.

Octopus venture with First Nations peoples plans $1 billion of solar and battery projects in Northern Territory, and has an eye on even bigger green hydrogen plans.

This is a great article that uses real data to see how our grid world perform with greater wind, solar and storage. It shows that we can easily achieve a 95% renewable grid with a modest level of storage....

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But there was also 5% increase in emissions from road petrol consumption and a 1.4% increase in emissions from road diesel consumption over the year to March 2023 – taking it close to, but not quite as high (3.6% below) pre-Covid levels....

The Australian Financial Review has been trying to make a big thing about nuclear power, and small modular reactors in particular. But it seems its ideological enthusiasm for the technology is trumping its fact checking capabilities....

Australia’s dirtiest power station - the 2.2GW Loy Yang A brown coal generator in Victoria - will continue to operate until 2035 under a new deal struck with the state government which effectively kills hopes that Australia could reach 100 per cent renewables before that date....

Five years ago, the then federal agriculture minister David Littleproud joined his then boss, former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, on a tour of the drought-affected regions of New South Wales and his home state of Queensland....

I’d like to be talking about the positive aspects of Australia’s decarbonisation plans, and the policy choices between US-style tax incentives that lower electricity prices at the expense of budget deficits, and Australia’s certificate system, which raises electricity prices and but which does keep the government budget...

Nationals leader David Littleproud says he wants to have an “honest” conversation about Australia’s energy transition. Well and good. But maybe Littleproud himself can help that process by not telling outright lies....

Software billionaire and green energy advocate Mike Cannon-Brookes has described AGL Energy, Australia’s biggest coal generator and biggest single polluter, as a “Toxic” company....

The Australian Energy Market Operator has made a rare foray into the mainstream media debate around the green energy transition, saying claims that its cost assessment of renewables does not include transmission and storage are “Wrong.”...

Australia is ranked 93rd out of 133 monitored countries, and the lowest of any OECD nation, after decades of decline in manufacturing activity....

Claims that decommissioned wind turbine blades have been secretly dumped in a shallow grave in a forest in far north Queensland have been thoroughly debunked this week – but not before being gobbled up by 2GB, Sky News, The Australian and various other Murdoch media mastheads....