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Renew Economy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 15:06 Source

Two new big battery projects have been energised on Australia's main grid in the past few days, underlining the speed and scale of the storage rollout in Australia.

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Renew Economy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 14:55 Source

Days after dumping its renewable energy targets and pledging billions of dollars in support of coal power generation, state launches rebate targeting solar for renters.

The post State launches rooftop solar for renters rebate into renewables policy vacuum appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Your Democracy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 14:51 Source

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose grandfather was a member of the Nazi Party, has compared Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.

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Renew Economy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 14:46 Source

Golden Plains wind farm.Australia's biggest wind farm has been commissioned on time, and may have found a blueprint for others to follow.

The post From Rhombus of Regret to on-time commissioning: Australia’s biggest wind farm finds blueprint for grid success appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Renew Economy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 14:19 Source

A groundbreaking trial to test an innovative alternative to rooftop solar export tariffs will run for another year and with double the number of participants.

The post Flexible payments versus sun tax: Groundbreaking rooftop PV exports trial to continue through 2026 appeared first on Renew Economy.

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Renew Economy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 14:18 Source

Abundance defines the day as wind and solar curtailment hits new peaks, accounting for more than 90 per cent of one state's demand. More batteries then.

The post Wanted, more batteries as abundant wind and solar hit record curtailment levels appeared first on Renew Economy.

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MacroBusiness Monday, December 15, 2025 - 14:00 Source

It’s going to be a busy week for the Australian dollar which has been on a tear recently against a broadening weakness building in USD (now down over 3% in two weeks). With a slew of central bank decisions in the next few days and the long awaited, delayed and possibly massaged US non-farm payrolls

The post Australian dollar on track for 67 cents appeared first on MacroBusiness.

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Renew Economy Monday, December 15, 2025 - 13:38 Source

Collie Battery Energy Storage System western australia synergyThe New South Wales government has given the planning green light to the $209 million Armidale battery energy storage system (BESS), which will boast capacity of 150 megawatts (MW)/437 megawatt-hours (MWh).

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MacroBusiness Monday, December 15, 2025 - 13:00 Source

SEEK has released its November labour market data, which contains both positives and negatives. SEEK reported a 0.5% decline in job ads over the month of November. Job ads were also down 0.9% over the quarter and 1.9% year-on-year. However, the number of applications per job ad held stable at a historically high level. The

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THE BLOT REPORT Monday, December 15, 2025 - 12:17 Source

After the horrendous events of December 14th, it didn’t take long before self-serving lies of people like Netanyahu surfaced. 

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MacroBusiness Monday, December 15, 2025 - 12:00 Source

The final report from the Federal Senate Inquiry into the Quality of Governance at Australian Higher Education Providers delivered a scathing assessment, largely focused on the corporatisation of public universities and its negative impact on students, staff, and the sector’s public mission. The report slammed “poor governance, wrongly focused decision-making, and poor employment practices” for

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MacroBusiness Monday, December 15, 2025 - 11:30 Source

Back in 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping coined what has become a legendary phrase: “Housing is for living in and not for speculation.” For years after Xi uttered these now-famous words, many Chinese property investors refused to listen; they continued to pour trillions of dollars into property speculation, even as the number of empty homes

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MacroBusiness Monday, December 15, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Germany once operated over 22 GW of nuclear capacity, producing around 160 TWh annually at low cost and without emissions. Following the Fukushima accident in 2011, Berlin accelerated closures, shutting 8 GW immediately and completing the phase-out by 2023. However, renewables could not provide stable baseload power. As a result, the shortfall was filled by

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xkcd.com Monday, December 15, 2025 - 11:00 Source

Earth's r_jf is approximately 1.5 light-days, leading to general relativity's successful prediction that all the frogs in the Solar System should be found collected on the surface of the Earth.

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MacroBusiness Monday, December 15, 2025 - 10:30 Source

Recently U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance retweeted a copy of a chart from Ice Cap Asset Management showing that growth in Canada’s GDP per capita had significantly underperformed both Britain and the United States since 2016. “While I’m sure the causes are complicated, no nation has leaned more into “diversity is our strength, we don’t

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