Every Australian home should be given an energy performance rating, allowing buyers or renters to know the energy efficiency of their home before moving in, according to a new report.
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A pioneering hydrogen project designed to help reach the 2050 net zero target has completed its first phase.
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Alternatives to gas and oil heating are becoming more popular but are still expensive.
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Australia’s energy ministers on Friday voted to make emissions reduction a key national energy goal, in a major step forward in the clean energy transition. Federal, state and territory energy ministers agreed to include emissions in what’s known as the “national energy objectives”. The objectives guide rule-making and other decisions concerning electricity, retail energy and gas. Announcing the deal on Friday, Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen said it was the first change to the objectives in 15 years. He added: This is important, it sends a very clear direction to our energy market operators, that they must include emissions reductions in the work that they do …
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Regional communities must be included in planning and conversations about renewable energy, a national summit has been told.
The transition to renewable energy is an “industrial revolution to a timetable” and regional Australia is on the front line of change, a national summit has been told.
Tony Wood, the Grattan Institute’s energy and climate change program director, said no section of the Australian economy would be untouched by the energy shift.
“We are going to turn our 100-year-old electricity system on its head in 30 years,” Mr Wood told the Regional Australia Institute event in Canberra.
“We’re going to take a 200-year-old gas system and basically get rid of it. We’re going to reinvent the way we make aluminium, steel, concrete, cement, explosives and fertilisers.
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