Renewable energy sources covered around 56 percent of electricity consumption in Germany in the first three months of the year, according to preliminary calculations by the Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) and utility association BDEW. “In total, renewable energy plants generated around 75.9 billion kilowatt hours
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Energy minister Chris Bowen discusses the capacity investment scheme, the Eraring closure, social licence, planning approvals, long duration storage, and why the Coalition’s nuclear plan does not stack up. Pylon is a proud sponsor of Energy Insiders Evergen is a proud sponsor of Energy Insiders
Federal climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has again lambasted the Coalition’s pursuit of nuclear power and its intention to stop renewables, saying it would put reliability of the grid at risk because it would delay the closure of ageing and increasingly decrepit coal fired power stations. The federal Coalition
The renewable energy industry has welcomed a move by the Victorian Labor government to fill “critical knowledge gaps” on how best to minimise adverse environmental and wildlife impacts of wind farm development, while also helping to get more projects built. The Allan government announced on Wednesday that it will invest
Australian resources giant BHP has launched a $60 billion power play for the lion’s share of energy transition supplies as the world electrifies. Shares in BHP fell 4.6 per cent or $2.09 to $43.14 in morning trade on Friday after it made the all-share offer worth almost $60 billion for
A man has died in a workplace accident at the site of the proposed Proserpine wind farm, a 900MW project that is in the very early stages of development on Gia People Country in Queensland’s Whitsunday Region. It is understood that the man, a worker in his 30s, was killed
Australia’s largest listed coal miner is proposing to transform a retiring mine site in the New South Wales Hunter region into a renewable energy hub featuring a 330MW solar farm and 3.6 GWh of pumped hydro capable of dispatching 300MW over a 12-hour period. Yancoal Australia has published a scoping
There is now a policy dispute about the roles of nuclear and renewable energy in future Australian low emission energy systems. The experience of China over more than a decade provides compelling evidence on how this debate will be resolved. In December 2011 China’s National Energy Administration announced that China
The installation of the final turbine has been completed at what will be – at least for a short time – the biggest wind project in NSW, the 396 MW Rye Park facility near Yass in the southern highlands region. Renewable energy developer Tilt Renewables announced the news on LinkedIn
Two solar farms planned for development in New Zealand have taken important steps forward this week, with construction beginning on the country’s largest solar farm, a 63MW project near Christchurch, while consent was also granted to build a 40.8MW project on the North Island. New Zealand power company Genesis Energy
Guess which two states enjoyed the sunniest conditions to lead the growth of rooftop solar PV output in the first quarter on Australia’s main grid. It turns out to be the country’s two southern most states – Tasmania and Victoria. The growth of rooftop solar is by far the healthiest
There’s a huge difference between asking “what’s most likely to happen, and how could that affect us” versus “what’s the worst that could happen, and how likely is that.” While the latter is the traditional risk management framing, the first approach is how most Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change