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Renew Economy Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 10:49 Source

Our off-grid luxury lodge combines a whole of system approach with renewables and storage, and a backup genset triggered only by indiscrete EV charging.

The post An all-electric, off-grid luxury lodge, powered entirely by solar, wind and a battery appeared first on Renew Economy.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 10:30 Source

Charts from TME. NDX is flirting with serious support levels while tech volatility trends higher.. Sag 7 in trouble. It’s pretty clear the market wants less capex spending. Apple is showing the way. Concentration is falling. NDX skew is nasty. Lot’s of bears here. Diffusion is extraordinary as the market gyrates wildly through winners and

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Renew Economy Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 10:00 Source

WA-royalties-santos-offshore-gas-field-emissions-Edit-1536x864.jpgThe defeat of a climate suit against Santos has disappointed activists but opened the public's eyes to how the resources giant developed its net-zero targets.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 10:00 Source

There’s no escaping the fact that buying a property in Australia will naturally entail high costs. This is especially true in populated regions near major cities like Sydney and Melbourne—places where demand for housing is steadily and sharply rising well beyond the $1 million barrier. The good news is that prospective homeowners don’t have to

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 10:00 Source

The Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) July 2023 Transmission Cost Report, which was released alongside updates to the 2022 Integrated System Plan (ISP), stated that estimated costs for some major transmission projects had increased by up to 100% compared with 2022 ISP estimates. AEMO also said that “we recognise that higher costs for network development

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 09:30 Source

“Tiny” Tim Wilson is your new shadow treasurer. New Coalition Treasury spokesman Tim Wilson has warned too many jobs are reliant on government support and vowed to put small business at the heart of his agenda, amid expectations real wages will go backwards for the first time in more than two years. With Labor set to

The post “Tiny” Tim rises to shadow treasurer appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 09:00 Source

The RBA minutes made clear there is no hurry to move again, either way. In considering what these observations implied for upcoming decisions, members agreed that the prevailing uncertainties meant it was not possible to have a high degree of confidence in any particular path for the cash rate. They pointed to risks on both

The post RBA will be pleased by crushed consumer appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 08:00 Source

Over the decades of America’s post-war history, few sectors have been as strongly protected as car manufacturers, with everything from bailouts to favourable regulations helping them survive in an increasingly competitive automotive landscape. Over the years, a well-trodden path for manufacturers seeking access to the American market with minimal to no trade barriers has been

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Your Democracy Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 06:55 Source

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said Israel is ahead of the US in developing cutting-edge weapons.

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Your Democracy Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 06:22 Source

 

The vicious and sustained campaign mounted against Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, by Israel and the U.S. now includes the German, Italian, French, Austrian and Czech foreign ministers demanding her resignation.

 

The Increasing Attacks on Francesca Albanese Presage a New Dark Age

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Your Democracy Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 05:44 Source

Palantir Technologies has been hacked, according to well-known blogger Kim Dotcom. The company develops software for intelligence and big data analysis. 

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MacroBusiness Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 00:01 Source

The media release accompanying the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) recent interest rate decision noted that “growth in private demand has strengthened substantially more than expected, driven by both household spending and investment”. The RBA’s Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) also noted that “the pick-up in consumer durables inflation was stronger than expected in the

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Renew Economy Wednesday, February 18, 2026 - 00:01 Source

 Someva Renewables.New South Wales to run an additional tender for firmed generation capacity to plug forecast gaps in supply left by retiring coal plants and "extended lulls" in solar and wind.

The post NSW announces extra tender for more firmed renewables capacity to fill looming coal gap appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Renew Economy Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 23:59 Source

If Angus Taylor thought there was "too much wind and solar" on Australia's grid back when he was federal ene

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Renew Economy Tuesday, February 17, 2026 - 23:09 Source

 BHP.BHP expects energy transitioning industries to supercharge its copper business - just don't expect any new detail on what it is doing to decarbonise.

The post Energy transition delivers fresh growth for BHP, but decarbonisation stays on the back-burner appeared first on Renew Economy.

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