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Neoen starts work on its first six-hour battery as the country's biggest battery - completed four months ahead of schedule - starts its contract as a "solar soaker"

From the Market Ear: Mighty NVDA NVDA takes out resistance levels, breaking above the consolidation that has been in place since mid July. Weak hands have been shaken out, so we could be seeing a short-term vacuum kick in… Will… …NVDA lead us higher, or ORCL lower? De-leveraging Last week we saw US Fundamental L/S

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On Tuesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data for July, which showed 15,624 trend approvals for the month, down 1.0% from July. Approvals remained 4,376 (22%) behind the National Housing Accord’s five-year objective of 20,000 dwellings per month. In the year to August, 189,105 dwellings were approved for construction, which was

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Envision Energy published EPDs for its wind turbines, underscoring sustainability and net-zero progress.

Department of Energy adds three new words to its 'banned' listStaffers at the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy received an email last week announcing that several words have now been banned from their official terminology

Cotality has released its September housing market report, which contains more bad news for renters. The national rental vacancy rate has fallen to a fresh record low of only 1.4%, according to Cotality, which has driven a reacceleration in rental growth. “The national vacancy rate slipped to a new record low of 1.4% in September,

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Can governments keep their sovereignty without becoming innovation-stifling totalitarians? And on the other hand, are the tech feudalists willing to provide innovative digital infrastructure without eating into state sovereignty and freedoms?

Non-State Actors, Techno-feudalism, and Governments’ Dependency Syndrome

BY Tamer Mansour

Three of Australia’s largest manufacturers will receive a total of $12 million to demonstrate technologies aimed at reducing Australia’s industrial emissions.

As expected, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has chosen to hold the official cash rate at 3.60%, in what was a unanimous decision. In arriving at its decision, the statement noted that “the decline in underlying inflation has slowed”, with “recent data, while partial and volatile, suggest[ing] that inflation in the September quarter may

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Origin seeks approval for huge wind and battery project on land it owns in New England REZ, where Coalition MP Barnaby Joyce is waging a war against renewables.

On Monday, Stats NZ released data on filled jobs for August, which recorded a 0.2% monthly rise, in line with expectations. However, as shown below by Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro, the August data incorporated chunky historical revisions, which suggest a weaker labour market starting point. The earlier reported 0.2% increase in July was revised

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Contested wind project in Tasmania's central highlands is now up to its fourth EPBC delay after winning a legal challenge and state EPA approval.

The explosion of artificial intelligence has triggered one of the largest capital expenditure booms in history. Trillions of dollars are being poured into building and upgrading data centres, which now sit at the heart of the global economy. Understanding their underlying economics—cost structures, pressure points, and investment implications—is becoming essential for investors and policymakers alike.