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Daily update: Energy prices crash as Queensland solar takes hold

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Energy prices crash as Queensland solar takes hold, Who’s responsible for over-capacity? Not renewables, The world’s $7.7tn energy boom, Solar bodies attack Abbott over ARENA & energy costs, Lessons from a failed energy revolution, How renewables in US were stopped, Can Australia avoid Kodak moment? Hydro energy storage a forgotten component of future electricity grids? and Dear Tony can you please stop lying about the RET.

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The Parkinson Report

Energy prices crash as Queensland solar takes hold Giles Parkinson

As Tony Abbott argues that renewables lift costs for consumers, energy prices in Queensland have plunged to unprecedented lows as rooftop solar “eats the midday” lunch of incumbent fossil fuel generators. That is why they want the RET stopped.

Who’s responsible for over-capacity? Not renewables Giles Parkinson

Australia’s current over-capacity is not the fault of renewables, it’s because incumbent generators made bad bets on demand. Another anti-renewables myth exploded.

The world’s $7.7 trillion renewable energy boom Silvio Marcacci

Global energy markets facing watershed moment as BNEF predicts two thirds of new investment to 2030 will be in renewable energy.

Solar bodies attack Abbott over ARENA, renewable costs Emma Fitzpatrick

Solar bodies prepare defence of ARENA and attack Abbott over demonisation of rooftop solar systems.

Lessons from a failed energy revolution Ugo Bardi

The transition to renewable energy is the only hope we have to overcome the resource crisis and the climate crisis we are facing. But to achieve that, we need to understand why nuclear failed.

Inside story: How renewables were stopped in US Allan Hoffman

An inside story of how a push to renewable energy in the 1970s in the United States was stopped in its tracks.

Australia’s Kodak moment – can we avoid it? John O’Brien

Can Australia avoid its ‘Kodak moment’ by aligning its economy and industry with global low-carbon trends, or are we headed for a long slow decline?

Dear Tony Abbott – can you please stop lying about the RET Nigel Morris

I don’t like to publicly criticize leaders but I am compelled to take you to task. Can you please stop lying about the Renewable Energy Target?