Solar and wind offloading hits record levels, with solar farms in one state offloading 59 pct of their potential output due to local negative prices.
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Australia could raise $35 billion a year by putting a price on pollution and help households and businesses by sharing the revenue, a report has found.
Commentators ideologically opposed to renewables have sat in their dens in the recent heatwaves waiting for the grid to fail. It didn’t.
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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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DXY rebounded, but the former support is still resistance. AUD didn’t care. The safe haven held. CNY supportive. JPY pulled back. Gold is a Middle Eastern missile. If oil follows… If oil follows then it will drag much of the commodity complex with it. Witness metals. Mining rocket. EM rocket. Junk rejection. As yields warm
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.
Washington: A “massive armada” of US warships now in the Middle East is ready to strike Iran, President Donald Trump says, as he issued his most direct threat to date for the Islamic Republic to negotiate or face American military action.
THE SPEECH BY MARK CARNEY IN DAVOS WAS AN EYE OPENER ON WHAT THE DECEIT OF THE WEST HAS BEEN — AND A CON-JOB ON WHAT THE FUTURE SHOULD BE... IT HAS BEEN EXTRAODINARILY WELL RECEIVED AROUND THE WESTERN COUNTRIES AS A "MEA CULPA"... IT IS FAR FROM IT.
Alice Weidel, co-leader of the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party, has given a speech to which every observer of Germany should pay close attention. And not simply because of Weidel’s inherent political weight.
The biggest isolated grid in Australia, and the world, hits a remarkable wind and solar peak share of 91 pct, and as its big batteries displace coal and gas in evening peaks.
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Alex Joiner, chief economist at IFM Investors, posted the following chart on Twitter (X) showing how underlying (trimmed mean) inflation in Australia has accelerated, raising the prospect that the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will lift the official cash rate (OCR) by 25 bps at next month’s monetary policy meeting. The result meant that trimmed
Record renewables and storage, falling prices and emissions, lowest coal and plunging gas delivers much needed boost for federal government's energy transition.
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Ever since it became evident that Trump was likely to be re-elected, I’ve been among the most pessimistic of commentators on the likely course of US politics (most recently here for example). I’ve also been nowhere near pessimistic enough. I assumed that Trump would follow the course of dictators like Putin and Orban, gradually eroding freedom and making his own power permanent. Instead, he’s gone most of the way inside a year.