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A flurry of new solar and battery projects has appeared in AEMO's grid management system, driving home just how popular the two technologies have been with investors. But in the EPBC queue, it's all about wind.

The post Big solar and batteries lead march to the grid, but new plans for wind are piling up appeared first on Renew Economy.

One of Australia's fiercest defenders of nature and biodiversity has thrown his hat into the ring to become the first CEO of the National Environmental Protection Agency.

The post “I’m it!” Bob Brown puts hand up to lead new national environmental watchdog appeared first on Renew Economy.

Roll the tape. Iron-ore giant Fortescue is speeding up its switch to green iron because CEO Dino Otranto told investors that the Pilbara must help China decarbonise steelmaking in order to stay competitive. Otranto said on the company’s earnings call that work on Fortescue’s Green Metal project at Christmas Creek is going well and that

The post China turns green steel dream into nightmare appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Lauri Myllyvirta, lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air, on China’s record solar and wind build, and why clean energy is now driving more than a third of the country’s economic growth.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: China’s clean energy surge reshapes coal, oil and the grid appeared first on Renew Economy.

Business Council of Australia Chief Executive Bran Black delivered a keynote address to the Universities Australia Solutions Summit that repeated the same old myths and fallacies about the vital importance that international students play in the Australian economy. Is international education a major economic pillar? Black claims that international education is a major economic pillar:

The post International student myths debunked appeared first on MacroBusiness.

Victoria has legislated a target to source 95% of its electricity from renewable energy by 2035. This is one of the most ambitious renewable energy targets in Australia and globally, designed to accelerate the state’s transition away from cheap brown coal toward cleaner energy sources, such as wind and solar. The Renewable Energy (Jobs and

The post Victoria careens toward energy scarce future appeared first on MacroBusiness.

As early works – and a legal challenge – get underway for Marinus Link, the cost to consumers of the existing interconnector, Basslink, has been determined.

The post AER sets cost to customers of Basslink, as troubled interconnector transitions to regulated asset appeared first on Renew Economy.

The Grattan Institute argues that NSW could make 1 million additional homes feasible to build by copying Victoria’s planning rules that allow terraces and three‑storey apartments “as of right” across most residential zones. This would remove councils’ ability to block low‑rise infill housing that already meets clear design standards. Victoria now allows terraces, townhouses, and

The ferrous complex closed the jaws again yesterday. However, the first major data dump post-LNY was bad. CISA mid-February output was up but far below last year. Worse, steel inventories skyrocketed 20%  and are far above 2025. Some of this will be CNY and Two Sessions distortion, but with a weak demand outlook in H1,

The post Iron ore begins the year badly appeared first on MacroBusiness.

9:00 – The draft redistribution of Tasmania’s five federal electorates is due to be published later today. I expect it to come out before midday.

Tasmania is guaranteed five federal electorates even though its population currently only justifies the entitlement to three electorates. For this reason, Tasmania will be unaffected by any parliamentary expansion.

When the final tally of results for the last federal election was released, it revealed that One Nation received 6.4% of the primary vote in the lower house. This result was well within the ballpark of its previous results, with an all-time peak of 8.4% of the primary vote at the 1998 election and 5.0%

The post Charting One Nation’s meteoric rise appeared first on MacroBusiness.

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) has released its National Greenhouse Gas Inventory for the September quarter of 2025. It shows that overall greenhouse gas emissions declined by 1.9% over the year to September 30, 2025: As illustrated above, Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions are tracking at the same level