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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Australia’s energy ministers have started the ball rolling on our renewable energy future. If we remained reliant on carbon fuels, we would have become a “stranded asset”.
Australia is a global energy giant. It ships to the world such vast tonnages of coal and LNG that it’s the third-biggest energy exporter on the planet, after Russia and Saudi Arabia. Yet the giant has been brought to its knees. This week millions of Australians living in NSW, Victoria, Queensland and South Australia were urged to turn off their electric appliances during times of peak demand to avoid blackouts.
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Solar and wind are fueling Australia’s future. Hydro energy storage — or pumped hydro — can capture this precious renewable energy, though its costs may deter investors….
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International metals group Korea Zinc’s Australian subsidiary Ark Energy has announced it will build 3 GW of renewable energy generation in north Queensland as part of plans to produce more than 1 million tonnes of green ammonia per annum for export by 2032.
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Few countries in the world can make such an outsize difference to climate change. In the shift to renewable energy, the sunburnt country could satisfy global demand for green energy more than eight times over.
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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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