Hey Reader, here's today's news to help energise your Monday. MARCH 17 What's needed to eat the industrial gas elephant; show us your battery policy; the good, bad and ugly of the energy ministers meeting; and more money for green metals. Image by Michael Schofield on Unsplash CARBON Courage needed to eat industrial gas Pilot projects, a better understanding of the economics and some basic courage could help shift the dial on decarbonisation by Australian heavy industry, according to sector...
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March 14 Hey Reader, here's today's news to help you cut through the static. AER tightens the trip wire for politicians; energy ministers eyeball each other over their growing to-do list; and ARENA project to inform landowners on renewables. Image by Simon Hurry on Unsplash REGULATION AER tightens the tripwire with proposed energy price rises The Australian Energy Regulator has warned outages at coal-fired power plants and rising network costs will stoke further bill shock, with energy price...
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Hey Reader, here's today's news summary to help you cut through the static. March 12 Getting ahead of the supply chain crunch; a Fukushima reminder on nuclear for Australian voters; forget the RET?; and how energy-economic modelling gets misused in climate policymaking. (Image by Sander Weeteling on Unsplash) ONE Stop the supply chain crunch A new report from the IEA offers 8 “actionable insights” for governments, industry and regulators to help strengthen the transmission supply chain (you...
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TODAY IN SUMMARY Projects for (almost) everyone as energy ministers flag renewable priorities on election eve; WA gets a mandate for its ambitious energy transition; energy ministers to debate gas imports plan; and there's still life in green hydrogen. Ingrid Martinussen (Unsplash) ‘Build baby build’: Pre-election priority list of renewable energy projects Australia’s energy ministers have done what they can to fast-track dozens of projects, with sovereign risk hanging over the nation’s clean...
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7 March 2025 Today's news: ⚒️ Behind the plan to reinvent Mt Isa; 🔋 turning e-waste into wealth; 🧹 clearing the decks before the election; 🐵 and it’s animals 1, humans 0 in the fight against blackouts. The Energy is in beta mode and you are receiving this as one of our insiders for early feedback. 1. Mt Isa on the frontier of transition, again Mt Isa Mayor Peta MacRae at APA's Dugald River Solar Farm (Image by Marion Rae) Mount Isa Mayor Peta MacRae, who moved to the rugged outback town as a...
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