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It's been a big year for the energy transition, but it's ending on a good note, with the newly released draft 2024 ISP, the expanded Capacity Investment Scheme, and steady progress at COP 28.

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Shuttered German nuclear plant could be replaced by Europe's biggest battery under proposal from site owners.

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Victoria expands incentives to move away from gas, to now all the major gas appliances that households commonly use.

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Australian households and their consumer energy resources – rooftop solar, electric cars, heat pumps, and electric cooktops – will play a critical and central role in the accelerating green energy transition.

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State energy ministers give themselves power to force coal generators to stay open if a fast-tracked closure puts grid reliability at risk.

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The green export scenario - the basis of the hope that Australian can be a renewable superpower - suggests the grid could reach 99 per cent renewables within a decade.

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AEMO's new planning blueprint says coal will exit five years early, households will play key role with rooftop PV, EVs and electric homes, but rollout of large scale wind and solar needs to quicken.

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The overriding question the world now faces is whether the broad commitments nations agreed to are enough as climate change gathers pace. The answer, alarmingly, is no.

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Countries agreed to ‘transition away’ from fossil fuels, but oil and gas firms are ramping up production.

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Bowen says COP28 agreement is a "big deal", with a clear warning to fossil fuels that the world is committed to transition to clean energy. But will it be quick enough?

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One of the most contested wind projects in NSW wins planning approval from department, just the second wind project in five years in the state. But it still has another hurdle to jump.

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AEMO says more gas power might be needed to cover early coal closures, but predicts longer term decline as wind, solar and storage over growing demand for electrification.

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IEEFA report says first round of CIS battery projects will leave no space for Eraring, but Chris Bowen will need a lot more wind and solar than he is planning now to reach his 82 pct renewables target.

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Clean energy investors slam delays for renewable and storage projects in NSW, noting that the only wind farm approved in the last five years took nearly a decade to get over the line.

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Telstra signs PPA for new solar farm in Queensland to take its total renewable contracts to the equivalent of all its annual electricity consumption.

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Astonishingly, in the 30 year history of the UN COP climate negotiations, renewables have never gotten a mention. Now they are acknowledged as central to the switch from fossil fuels.

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Mistakes and even a change of material supplier can create tiny flaws which could cause problems years down the track, according to a new study from UNSW into new solar cell technologies.

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Latest COP28 text squibs on phase out of fossil fuels, mentioning only "unabated" coal but falling short on gas and oil as the petrol-states hold court.

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2023 has been the year of battery storage, with record construction starts, but wind and solar approvals have hit an eight year low, putting the renewable energy target at risk.

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The Connorville solar project, hosted on one of Tasmania's most famous farms, has been designed with sheep grazing as a key requirement.

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