IEA plan short on vision, ignores need for structural shift to renewables
The IEA's Sustainable Recovery Plan focuses on short-term improvements, but lacks long-term vision that accelerates the shift to 100% renewables.
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Tesla Battery Day set for September to reveal million-mile EV revolution
Elon Musk has tentatively given a September 15 date for Tesla's Battery Day and AGM, but what has been the real reason behind the delays?
World-first blockchain solar trading trial using Australian tech finds P2P feasible
W.A. trial using Power Ledger technology finds peer-to-peer solar trading technically feasible, good for grid and consumers – but unlikely to succeed under current tariff structures.
Small modular reactor rhetoric hits a hurdle
The latest GenCost report estimates a hopelessly uneconomic construction cost for small nuclear reactors, but it throws the nuclear lobby a bone.
Big utilities split over delays to key reform that backs battery storage
EnergyAustralia and AGL - who both operate big batteries - come out against proposed delays to five-minute settlement period, highlighting a schism over major reform.
Tesla community battery installed in Busselton, Western Australia
A fifth PowerBank battery installed by W.A. to help balance the state's grid, allow more customers to install solar, and offer a "community" storage option to local solar homes.
Engineers say technology roadmap should focus on cheap renewables, energy storage
Australian engineers' peak body join submissions calling for a technology roadmap based around cheap solar and wind and energy storage technologies.
Amazon signs biggest corporate solar PPA in Australia with Suntop project
Amazon identifies solar farm in NSW that will support the biggest corporate PPA with a solar project to date in Australia.
Australian made hydrogen must be green, or it will have no export market
Global markets will increasingly require ‘green hydrogen’ certification as they decarbonise their economies in line with Paris goals. To get distracted by anything less would be a fool’s errand.