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Snowy Hydro 2.0 flags another cost blowout with $12bn price tag now considered unachievable
Pumped hydro project in Kosciuszko national park is 67% complete, but supply chain cost increases and issues with a borer have caused cost overrun
Look at the scoreboard! Net zero hides real result
Net zero advocates are accused of shifting blame, dismissing factual criticism as “misinformation” while the reality reveals cost blowouts and broken promises.
Businesses rank energy as their No. 1 concern
Businesses now rank the cost of energy as the chief concern for their future, rating it almost three times more worrying than US tariff and trade disruptions, according to new analysis.
‘It’s not us anymore’: Renewables go from boom to bust in the wind capital of Canada
In Pincher Creek, wind is king, roaring down the eastern Rockies, delivering power for generations, so much so the municipal district made a windmill part of its corporate logo.
Revealed: the stunning scale of the renewables rollout
Australia’s renewable energy revolution will require 25,000 wind towers and 250 million solar panels across an area larger than Sydney, new mapping reveals.
Strong iron ore price hands Labor huge bonus
Treasurer Jim Chalmers claimed credit on Monday for a smaller Budget deficit than predicted by the big-spending Albanese Government, even though the difference was mainly due to wrong official forecasts for iron ore prices.
Ausgrid’s $180m solar and battery plan stumbles on regulatory roadblock
Ausgrid’s $180m plan to build community solar generation and battery projects across Sydney and the NSW Central Coast has been thrown into doubt after legal advice to the Australian Energy Regulator found the distributor cannot immediately recover the costs through customer bills.
Fanning the the flames
An experienced pilot has warned the construction of giant wind turbines would make it ‘nearly impossible’ to fight bushfires in a NSW region of Yass, which has a “history of major fires”.
That’s not a speech Albo – THAT’S a speech
Precisely because it was such a powerful challenge to the two great political pieties of our time, there will be a sustained attempt to ridicule, ignore and bury Donald Trump’s seismic speech to the UN last week.
Renewables rollout rethink: ‘social licence’ for wind, solar ‘demands cash returns for regional communities’
Regions hosting renewable-energy projects would receive – and control – pooled developer and government funds for local infrastructure and services, under a “radical” plan to secure a “social licence” for the rollout.