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Daily update: Why were RET modellers instructed to ignore commercial reality?

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Why were RET modellers instructed to ignore commercial reality?; Waburton says energy market modelling as bad as climate modelling; India poised to be world solar leader; The WA green power scheme that wasn’t; Queenslanders continue to rush to rooftop solar; Tag Pacific steps in to build solar plant at Rio Tinto mine; Japan JV to build world’s largest floating solar array; Who really benefits from reducing the RET; Cali’s EV strategy opens a portal the U.S. future; and how Germany may get 6-fold boost in wind power from fewer turbines.
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ACIL Allen says it was instructed by RET Review panel – headed by climate skeptic Dick Warburton – to ignore commercial realities around coal-fired generation. Such modelling would be rejected by any company board, and the government should do the same.
After months of denying a bias against renewables and climate science, RET Review head Dick Warburton says globe not warming, developing renewables pointless.
New report suggests road map for India’s solar sector to boost nation’s PV capacity by more than 140GW in 10 years.
WA consumers rail against state-owned retailer Synergy, after being told their premiums were not invested in local environmental schemes.
Households and businesses continue to defy expectations, and install large rooftop solar systems in Queensland despite change in tariffs.
Less than two months after Ingenero’s collapse, Tag Pacific signs up to build a 1.7MW solar PV array to power Rio Tinto’s bauxite mine in Weipa, Qld.
Kyocera and Century Tokyo Leasing announce plans to build a 2.9MW floating solar plant in in Hyogo Prefecture, west Japan.
Reducing the RET is a step back from a clean energy economy that rewards coal and gas power companies at the expense of households and small business.
California is poised to open a portal to America’s future, shoving Big Oil off the highways to make room for cleaner transportation alternatives.
Germany expected to increase share of wind power from 15% fewer turbines, with overall power consumption remaining basically unchanged. What would that look like?

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