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Rooftop PV sets new records for share of generation, and sends minimum demand levels to new low, taking a bigger bite out of the fossil fuel lunch, and that of large scale solar farms.

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Largest vanadium flow battery in south hemisphere is going through its commissioning process at Port Pirie, with big hopes for the future of round-the-clock storage.

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Scientists says soil carbon projects are overblown by as much as 10 times, which risks the accuracy of Australia's greenhouse gas inventory.

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Solar energy combined with storage is expected to become the cheapest option for generating electricity in nearly all regions worldwide by 2030.

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Federal government releases new data showing big savings from rooftop solar, and from household battery storage.

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Western Australia says pumped hydro may be too hard, and it will have to focus on battery storage to support its switch from coal to renewables.

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Telstra energy boss says negative prices are a "gift" to encourage big energy users to produce at low cost, and turn megawatt hours into petaflops, and other useful things.

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An incremental drip-feed of small, piecemeal measures absent guidance on what may or may not be coming next does not make us competitive.

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South Australia gets a glimpse of its "net" 100 per cent renewable future, with wind and solar meeting 99.8 per cent of state demand in the last seven days.

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The fourth round of tenders for the NSW renewable roadmap will seek another gigawatt of wind and solar, and offers access rights to new renewable energy zones for the first time.

The post NSW opens up new tender for another gigawatt of wind and solar to replace coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Federal government tips $69.2 million into the 2.2GW Central Queensland Hydrogen Hub, described by the state government as the biggest in Australia.

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Cannon-Brookes joins industry led campaign to populate the millions of new climate and energy roles required for Australia to meet net zero by 2050.

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Fortescue producing first of its "home grown" electrolysers at new Gladstone gigafactory, which it sees as key to success in Hydrogen Headstart program after missing out on Whyalla tender.

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Victoria re-boots the publicly owned State Electricity Commission, with plans to build 1.2GW of renewables and storage by 2025, generate thousands of green jobs.

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Stanwell signs 15-year off take deal for all the output of another major solar project to supply its green hydrogen plans, in the second such deal of the past two weeks.

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DP Energy says it has received planning approval for another major wind farm in central Queensland, which will be located near the broken Callide C coal generator.

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An independent probe might cut through Snowy 2.0’s woeful history of impossibly optimistic estimates. The government should start by releasing the reset report.

The post Government snowed again, if it believes Snowy 2.0 is a commercial investment appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ARENA boss says clean technologies like solar batteries and EVs and heat pumps are not truly green unless the whole upstream supply chain is also green.

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Clean Energy Investor Group calls for emissions data to be stamped on renewable energy certificates – to boost demand for new solar, wind and storage.

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Trina Solar has unveiled its new 2MW/4MWh grid-scale Elementa 2 energy storage system, offering a first look at its first foray into the big battery space.

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