The Albanese government's climate bill passed the lower house on Thursday and will be sent to the Senate, where it is expected to pass with support from the Greens.
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Transit Systems are at the front line of the ambition by NSW to electrify the entire Sydney bus fleet of 8,000 to electric, or fuel cell and is now operating around 50 buses from Leichhard, with another 100 on their way.
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Federal Energy Minister Chris Bowen has announced Australia's first six offshore wind energy zones, the first being the waters off the Gippsland coast, in Victoria's south-east, followed off the coast of the Hunter Valley and Illawarra in New South Wales, Portland in Victoria, Northern Tasmania, Perth and Bunbury in Western Australia.'
An end of a decade of uncertainty': Government's climate bill expected to pass Senate todayIt enshrines in legislation a 43 per cent emissions reduction target based on 2005 levels by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.
Synergy will operate the 100 to 200 megawatt hour battery, which will have the capacity to power 160,000 homes for up to two hours.