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Very close to 100% renewable electricity is feasible for Australia’s main grid at reasonable cost using just several hours of storage. Four years of data proves this is so.

The post Near 100 pct renewable electricity for Australia’s main grid is achievable and affordable: Year 4 update appeared first on Renew Economy.

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To the rescue! A Bloomberg Intelligence gauge of Chinese developer stocks jumped as much as 8.1% Thursday, the most since July. Among the top gainers was Sunac China Holdings Ltd., which surged 28% at one point in Hong Kong. Country Garden Holdings Co. also added nearly 22%. This followed a report by Beijing News late Wednesday

The post China relaxes “three red lines” for property appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Chris Joye, a portfolio manager with Coolabah Capital, recently wrote an article in the Australian Financial Review arguing that the expansion of government spending was placing upward pressure on inflation and, by extension, interest rates. “At the federal level, the annualised monthly trend budget deficit has deteriorated rapidly from $12 billion in December 2024 to

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, is joined by David Llewelyn-Smith of MacroBusiness to examine the latest slide in the U.S. dollar—unpacking whether this is just a short-term pullback or an early sign the broader USD tide is turning, and what a sustained shift could mean for global markets and

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Do we need LNG import termimals? In a common-sense world, we clearly don’t need them. We’ve got plenty of cheap gas at home. So, why are we still debating them? Gas producers in the south-east are voicing strong concerns about the plan to give the Australian Energy Market Operator the ability to underwrite new supply

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I noted on Wednesday that Australia is facing surging energy demand driven by a combination of extreme population growth and the build-out of data centres driven by AI, cloud, and hyperscale investment. First, Australia’s population is officially projected by the Centre for Population to balloon by 13.4 million people (nearly 50%) by 2065–66, adding roughly

The post South Australia’s energy warning for the nation appeared first on MacroBusiness.

The ferrous jaws must close! SMM wraps it nicely. Today, iron ore futures were in the doldrums. Traders quoted actively, while steel mills purchased as needed and inquired cautiously, resulting in a slightly subdued overall trading atmosphere. This week’s SMM pig iron production survey showed that China’s average daily hot metal output reached 2.3492 million

The post Iron ore needs lower prices appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Commentators ideologically opposed to renewables have sat in their dens in the recent heatwaves waiting for the grid to fail. It didn’t.

The post The most important power station in the nation is no longer a distant coal plant – it’s on our rooftops appeared first on Renew Economy.

Nothing much to move markets overnight except a looming war in Iran and a pause in the continued structural decline of the USD with both the Fed and Bank of Canada holding interest rates with ECB officials broadcasting a similar sentiment. A small bounceback in USD wasa not across the board however as the Australian

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In a recent poll conducted by Ipsos for ITV News in the U.K., over 2,000 Britons were surveyed on their attitudes toward current levels of migration, among other things. What it found amongst those who had an opinion was that high migration is opposed by a majority of Britons, not only among white Britons but

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Ben was joined by George Hasanakos from pollster DemosAU to discuss the surge in support for One Nation, which has pushed them ahead of the combined Liberal-National vote in a number of polls, as well as the split in the Liberal-National coalition. They discuss how these two trends impact on how polls are conducted.

This podcast was recorded before the publication of polls by YouGov and Essential that continued the continuing trend.