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AGL Energy fades from green to black
RenewEconomy editor@reneweconomy.com.au via mail12.atl111.rsgsv.net
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AGL completes transformation from green to black with purchase of 4,600MW of coal generation. Plus: AGL looks at solar, storage and home energy solutions; The coal generator NSW sold for $0; US wind energy cost falls to ‘all-time low’; ACT govt releases plan to go carbon neutral by 2020; Chinese coal consumption just fell for the first time this century; Why utilities should give up operational control of distribution grid; Rooftop solar – own or lease?; The politicisation of environmental science in Australia; and Brace yourself for Solargeddon.
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AGL Energy completes transformation from ‘green’ to ‘black’ with purchase of 4,600MW of coal generation. Now it has a new challenge – keeping carbon price and renewables at bay, but also retaining trust from customers, dealing with “demand destruction” and disruptive technologies.
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AGL Energy in talks with a number of battery storage suppliers at it tries to ready itself for the emergence of a new decentralised electricity model.
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AGL Energy says it bought 2,00MW Liddell coal fired generator from NSW for free, such was the generous nature of the NSW privatisation (giveaway).
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US report shows PPAs for wind energy projects hit record low 2.5c/kWh in 2013, thanks to policy support, local production and cheaper, better technology.
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China’s coal use dropped for the first time this century — while the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) actually grew.
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ACT government releases framework for carbon neutrality in own operations by 2020, ahead of plans for whole of Canberra to be carbon neutral by 2060.
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Regulators in New York are about to make one of the most important changes to the modern electric grid. But is it enough?
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Own or lease your rooftop solar? Homeowners in Australia and the United States take opposite approaches.
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Despite all our efforts, despite the jobs losses, despite the facts, despite the undeniable climate logic, tragically the Solargeddon is a big step closer.
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Somewhere between the vocation of politics and the vocation of science, Australia has lost its way – to the point where our international standing is seriously on the line
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