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Britain’s infrastructure reputation has taken a beating in recent years thanks to changing governments, Brexit and water utilities in disrepute, to name but a few reasons. But there is a silver lining.
As ‘free money’ dries up, higher interest rates are reshaping critical dynamics of the renewable energy market, Zak Bentley and Daniel Kemp find.
Climate change ‘is a source of risk’ for superfunds, ASFA says in a new report, and renewables investments could help to mitigate this.
Aerial rendering of Akaysha Energy's Waratah super battery
BlackRock’s Akaysha Energy secured the largest project under a pilot Capacity Investment Scheme in NSW, which will now be expanded across Australia to turbocharge investment.
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GI Hub CEO Marie Lam-Frendo argues there is scope to reduce regulatory capital charges by 60% if historical data are used to define risk weights.
Australia’s competition watchdog said Brookfield’s Global Transition Fund would have a ‘strong imperative and commercial incentive to lower emissions quickly’, outweighing vertical integration concerns.
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While renewables were spared curbs in Texas, recent legislation in the state and nationally underwhelmed infrastructure investors.
An ‘end to privatisation’ message helped elect New South Wales’ new Labor government – not for the first time in Australian state politics.
Presidents Biden and von der Leyen have finally reached a truce on the clean energy subsidy wars. They must now make sure they don’t create false economies. 
The latest report from the Clean Energy Council reveals the country’s energy transition has been 'throttled by years of policy uncertainty', CEO Kane Thornton says.
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