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Victorians paying top dollar for carbon credits, triggering green-scheme overhaul
A tonne of carbon removed from the atmosphere costs up to three times more under Victoria’s gas removal program than in similar schemes across Australia – and it’s passed onto consumers in their power bills.
- by Kieran Rooney
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If you give voters free solar batteries, they might keep you in power, Mr Albanese
Turbocharging renewables with rooftop solar and subsidised batteries is a sure-fire vote-winner. So why is the government not doing it?
- by Rebecca Huntley
Coal plants are powering down to survive Australia’s rooftop solar surge
Energy giant AGL last month carried out an Australia-first trial of taking one of the units in NSW offline for five hours and returning it to service in the afternoon.
- by Nick Toscano
Coal town to battery base: WA firm keen to make power move
When one coal-fired power station closes, a green battery gigafactory could open in its place – and this company wants to directly redeploy coal workers.
- by Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Renewables’ half-hour of power on the east coast
Australia’s energy transition reached a record this week as renewables hit 74 per cent of the electricity mix for a half-hour period.
- by Nick Toscano
Energy giant issues warning on Dutton nuclear plan
Power giant AGL says Australia has reached a critical juncture in the renewable energy transition and has no time to waste waiting for nuclear.
- by Nick Toscano
Households surge ahead in rooftop solar as renewable projects break bottleneck
Consumers installed four times more electricity generation through rooftop solar in the first half of this year than all commercial projects combined.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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Coalition pushes gas as nuclear stopgap, but PM says Dutton won’t ‘come clean’
Australia’s use of gas will be an election flashpoint as the Coalition pledges to keep more for local use to fuel the party’s nuclear ambitions.
- by Paul Sakkal
Australia is building more renewables than ever. It’s still not enough
The nation’s renewable energy transition has reached record speed, with more wind, solar and battery projects under construction than in any year.
- by Nick Toscano
Why is Australia still burning so much coal? Inside the power plant that just can’t close
Australia’s energy transition has a timing problem: we have enough renewables to undermine coal, but not enough yet to replace it. That means plants like Origin Energy’s Eraring are being forced to stay in the mix.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Mornington Peninsula solar farm will mix power with fruit and veg
The backers of an “agri-solar” project say they will be able to grow raspberries, mushrooms and finger limes while producing enough electricity to power about 1200 homes.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/renewable-energy-617