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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.
LNG is nation’s strategic asset with strong partnership links
Australian policymakers risk undermining the nation’s most important trade and investment relationships if they fail to value liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an important strategic asset, central to how the nation’s most important partners in North Asia view their long-term energy security.
Regulatory roadblocks driving gas projects offshore as shortfalls loom
The national spotlight on Australia’s lagging productivity and slow and complex approvals processes has highlighted the challenges we face in transforming our energy system.
Tony Abbott opinion: Why Net Zero ‘has to be dropped’
The government is peddling a false environmental apocalypse to justify up-ending people’s lives in ways they would never accept if they were told the truth, writes former PM Tony Abbott.
Climate Change Authority boss challenged to see impacts of net zero on regions
Farmers claim climate change warrior Matt Kean has “no real experience” of the issues facing regional Australia, including their unfolding battle against giant renewable energy projects.