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Clean energy approvals increase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... and small-scale technology certificates (STCs). By the end of the year, CER predicts 3-4 gigawatts of large-scale wind and solar will come online, plus an estimated 3.1 GW of small-scale rooftop solar. In the first half of the year, 1.5 GW of large-scale ...

Study finds answer to land use battle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... economists, and academics to understand legal, policy, market and technological barriers to clean energy rollout. Large-scale solar is vital to meeting Australia's emissions reduction targets of 48% and renewable energy target of 82% by 2030, according ...

Clarity on sector pathways sparks investor confidence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... Government's Net Zero Plan. The government will now decide Australia's 2035 climate target. Existing technologies such as solar, wind, and energy storage batteries form the cornerstones of Australia's decarbonisation pathways across sectors. However ...

Natural gas buyout bulldozes investors: Analysts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... spin that methane gas is lower emissions than coal, ignoring that methane are almost 100% more emissions intensive as wind, solar, hydro and nuclear energy. "LNG is far more emissions intensive than methane gas... given the massively energy intensive ...

Net zero dreams float on unscaled tech

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... five years and shut down all unabated coal and almost all unabated gas in the next ten years. 290 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity should be installed by 2050, as power demand grows 2.5-fold.

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... with some of the country's largest developers, and is currently a broker to Australia's largest (unnamed) BESS, PV solar and wind portfolio, and, as the lender's insurance advisor, has advised on a number of Australia's largest renewables ...

Quinbrook closes clean energy capital raise at $3bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... has closed its largest-ever capital raise at $3 billion for the Net Zero Power Fund. The strategy focuses on large-scale solar, renewable fuels, power generators, and battery storage. This marks Quinbrook's third fund close in this past year and ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... "scam business" and has already made promises to scrap offshore wind projects if elected. Pearce also cited Chinese EV and solar panel production, noting companies in China that are selling below cost "which is not healthy" but "cannot last forever." ...

"Critical decade" for energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... strong, with a 25% increase in renewables on the grid since the Albanese government took over: "There are now more homes with solar than with swimming pools." Aging coal-fired power stations pose a risk, and more renewables will ensure grid reliability. ...

TelstraSuper pumps more into renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... TelstraSuper confirmed it is on track to meet this goal. The Quinbrook fund's investment portfolio consists of utility scale solar farms and battery projects, sustainable data centres and Quinbrook's own supernode battery project and sustainable ...
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