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Sophie Vorrath

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Dutton blames renewables for rising power prices, but bills would be much higher without them

Dutton blames renewables for rising power prices, but bills would be much higher without them
23.03.2025 10

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Sophie Vorrath

Dutton’s stuff-ups: N-plan could add up to $600 per year to bills by 2030

09.03.2025 8

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Sophie Vorrath

Is it a cost-of-living election or a nuclear power election? Peter Dutton can’t have it both ways

17.01.2025 10

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Sophie Vorrath

Renewables superpower or climate coward? Albanese needs to make a choice before election

A major new report has detailed the “extraordinary economic opportunity” for Australia to replace its coal and gas exports with decarbonised...

21.11.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath

South Australia joins Denmark in elite club of two, ‘pushing the boundaries’ of renewable energy integration

South Australia has joined an elite global club, after being listed alongside Denmark as the only other energy system in the world to be...

24.09.2024 1

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Sophie Vorrath

Nuclear won’t cut it: CCA says Australia must go all in on renewables to meet climate targets

Australia will not reach net zero emissions by 2050 under the federal Coalition’s nuclear power plan, according to a comprehensive new report that...

08.09.2024 3

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Sophie Vorrath

‘Gas Trojan horse’: Coalition nuclear push slammed as fossil wedge aimed at renewables

The chair of Australia’s largest group of clean energy investors has described the federal Coalition’s push for nuclear power as a “gas Trojan...

21.08.2024 3

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Sophie Vorrath

New England wind project shelved as local MP Barnaby Joyce takes anti-renewable vitriol to new low

Plans to build a 340MW wind farm and a big battery in the New England Renewable Energy Zone in NSW have been shelved by developer Ark Energy,...

31.07.2024 10

Pearls and Irritations

Sophie Vorrath