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Nov 6, 2024 · Australia’s best informed and most read web-site focusing on clean energy news and analysis, as well as climate policy.
Stubborn fossil fuel emissions threaten to blow global carbon …
1 day ago · Growth of 0.8 per cent in gas and oil use drove fossil fuel carbon emissions to a record high of 41.6 billion tonnes in 2024, putting carbon concentration 52 per cent above pre-industrial levels ...
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5 days ago · Regulator says “systemic change” needed to cut energy costs, embrace consumer renewables. Australian Energy Regulator says electricity affordability will be an “ongoing challenge” that ...
Solar pushes renewables to record share of grid, coal hits new low ...
Nov 6, 2024 · The share of renewables in Australia’s main grid hit new highs on Wednesday, pushing coal and overall fossil fuel shares to new lows despite the highest levels of native demand seen this spring.
AEMO locks in renewables and storage to replace coal, as Australia ...
Jun 26, 2024 · AEMO says the step change scenario requires around 5,000 km of new transmission lines to be built over the next decade – not the 28,000 km often cited by the Coalition – and half of this is ...
SwitchedOn - A RenewEconomy Publication
SwitchedOn - A RenewEconomy Publication. We've barely scratched the surface of how energy efficiency can help the energy transition. Amory Lovins, 'the Einstein of energy efficiency,' says energy efficiency is a continuous spectrum that keeps rapidly evolving, and better design is twice as efficient as the gains from just dropping fossil fuels.
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5 days ago · NZ Labour pledges 100 pct renewables by 2030, national hydrogen refuelling network. NZ Labour brings forward 100 per cent renewable electricity target by five years, to 2030 as part of a clean ...
2023 in review: Australia nears half-way mark to 82% renewables
Jan 8, 2024 · Renewable energy sources supplied nearly 40 per cent of electricity demand in Australia over the course of 2023, according to data from OpenNEM, edging the nation closer to the halfway mark on its ...
"Unparalleled:" Rooftop solar now a major player in Australia's grid ...
The CEC estimates that one third third of all households and businesses in Australia now have their own array, after 2.9 GW of new capacity installed from 314,507 units was installed in 2023, its ...
Australia's renewable superpower ambitions could be turbo …
May 22, 2023 · The commitment to release a new action plan by end 2023 provides the impetus and the speed of response warranted, and, importantly, embodies the Compact in a concrete form for implementation.