6 Oct REneweconomy news

- Utilities scramble to catch up with stunning fall in renewable energy costs
  
  While it may take decades yet for renewables to become the dominant form of generation globally, their presence today is permanent, economically rational and their advance inevitable.
  
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- Tritium boosts EV charger production seven-fold at Brisbane plant
  
  Tritium unveiled new facility that will lift manufacturing of EV charging stations 7-fold, while QLD government unveils its long term EV strategy.
  
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- Greens push 20GW energy storage target to shift debate from baseload
  
  Greens unveil plan for 20GW of energy storage by 2030, providing incentives for storage at household and grid level, and try to move the energy debate beyond the limited scope of baseload vs renewables.
  
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ARENA, CEFC back plan to recycle EV-batteries for household storage

A Melbourne company that has found a way to recycle EV batteries for use in household and grid-scale storage gets some money from Turnbull’s innovation fund.

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Australian household electricity prices may be 25% higher than official reports

The IEA may be underestimating Australian household energy bills by 25% because of a lack of accurate data from the federal government.

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Renewable energy markets un-moved by bizarre push for coal

Once upon a time political divisions on energy policy would have had a significant impact on the renewable energy market. This time, however, it has been largely ignored.

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Investec Australia supports Australian green energy sector

Investec Australia Limited’s Infrastructure Finance & Investment team has added to its local funding of green energy by helping a UK developer of solar projects expand in Australia.

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Changing climate change“2040” paints an optimistic picture of the future of the environment

The film focuses on technological and agricultural solutions that are already being implemented to help combat climate change, The Economist Feb 19th 2019

by C.G. | BERLIN ……….In “2040”, a documentary which premiered at the Berlinale, Mr Gameau seeks to wrest hope from the bleak reports of climate change. He was inspired by Project Drawdown, the first comprehensive plan to reverse global warming, and the film is intended as a “virtual letter to his four-year-old daughter to show her an alternative future”. “Many films,” Mr Gameau thinks, are too dystopian, and “paint a future that is really hard to engage and to connect with”. “2040” acknowledges that the Earth has set off down a hazardous path, but focuses on the work that is being done now to steer the right course. What, the film asks, could make 2040 a time worth living in?…. (subscribers only) https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/02/19/2040-paints-an-optimistic-picture-of-the-future-of-the-environment