Australia's most isolated grid is showing the world how the net zero transition will put gas out of the grid support business.
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Its not been all roses and sunshine following last night’s rate cut by the Fed with Asian share markets mixed at best while commodity and currency markets are moving into risk off mode on the escalation in the Caribbean by the Trump regime’s seizure of an oil tanker and some questioning around AI spending via
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APA wants to build a "large" wind, solar and battery hub deep in the Pilbara near Newman.
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Pacific Blue has funded two research projects to see if Australia-made tech can reuse fibreglass extracted from old turbine blades in high-value sectors.
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Thursday’s labour force release for the month of November handed Victoria another unwanted title: the unemployment state. As illustrated in the next chart, Victoria’s trend unemployment rate was the highest in the nation at 4.7%, significantly above the national average unemployment rate of 4.3%: As illustrated below by Alex Joiner from IFM Investors, if you
Origin approves expansion of what will already be the biggest battery in Australia as it seeks more storage capacity to fill the evening demand peaks.
Smart Energy Council's David McElrea on why federal Labor must make some urgent changes to its super successful Cheaper Home Batteries scheme – and what those changes might be. Plus news of the week.
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From the Market Ear: Inverse HS? Is SPX flirting with an inverse HS formation? A proper close above the 6900 area (futures) and things could get squeezy. If November was just a shake out of weak hands, and the trend channel remains the compass, then we have room to push this substantially higher. Russell roaring
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The latest Statement of Monetary Policy from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) forecasts the unemployment rate will remain at 4.4% through to the end of 2027. Today, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the November labour force report, which reported that the unemployment rate remained at 4.3% in both seasonally adjusted and trend
In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, digs into the great valuation debate — exploring how stretched markets truly are, what’s driving the disconnect between price and fundamentals, and where investors should be most cautious as the cycle matures. Join us when we go LIVE at 12:30 AEDT Take us on
Another major financing deal announced for renewable energy projects, this time for a portfolio that includes the NEM's first solar battery hybrid project.
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In much of the rest of the world, the month-to-month moves of interest rates by central banks are not something that rates much of a mention around the proverbial equivalent of the backyard BBQ. Yet in Australia, moves in interest rates are monitored as if they were part of the national sporting pastime and a
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Renew Economy speaks with Thomas Bywater, Head of AIKO ANZ, about the world’s first 500 W module under 2 m² and how AIKO has solved the Back Contact scalability problem that held the architecture back for nearly five decades.
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Stats NZ released migration data for October, which showed that large numbers of Kiwis continue to leave, mostly for Australia. Net migration was only 11,929 in the year to October, down from a net gain of 35,400 in the October 2024 year. The current net migration inflow is a fraction of the circa 130,000 peak in
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