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Market revenue for Australia's growing fleet of big batteries near trebles, driven by price volatility and from being paid to charge when wholesale prices fall below zero.

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A preferred route for the Victorian component of the controversial VNI West transmission line has been released, but not everyone is happy with the proposed path.

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ClearVue Technologies has kicked off the new financial year with a pilot that will trial a combination of its solar glazing and cladding for use in a prototype prefab net zero home.

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Ted O’Brien and Peter Dutton don’t seem know much about electricity costs and pricing. Contrary to their claims, Australian consumers actually pay less than their Ontario counterparts.

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The battery project that will be South Australia's biggest once up and running has reached mechanical completion two weeks early.

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AEMO reports significant increase in the capacity of new wind, solar and storage projects seeking a grid connection, with the total now exceeding 45 gigawatts for the first time.

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Solar cells could be printed out like newspapers after Australia's leading science organisation opened a $6.8 million facility dedicated to flexible solar technology. 

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Australia’s first commercial concentrated solar thermal heat plant will be built at the Mars Petcare facility in Wodonga, joining the recently installed "thermal battery."

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Australian silicon anode technology that promises to reduce battery storage costs and enable longer EV driving ranges awarded Arena funding.

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Australian gravity storage company wants to use mine shafts in one of the country's biggest mining regions to deploy its technology as vast new wind and solar resources are opened up.

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Rooftop PV pushed grid demand and coal output to new record lows, as NSW prepares to join other states in introducing a household solar switch off mechanism.

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Windrose, a newly emerging maker of electric heavy trucks, has just completed a road trip from Melbourne to Sydney and has its eyes on the Australian market. Advisor Jason Roycht explains why it might not just be Chinese EVs on our roads.

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Neoen formally opens first stage of what will be Australia's biggest battery, soaking up rooftop solar and helping ease the last coal generators out of the grid.

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Devrim Celal from green energy retailer Octopus explains why the energy transition will not succeed unless the proper incentives are given to use electricity at the right times.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: Why the energy transition needs consumers to love electricity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland has more than 120 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage projects in the pipeline. Will the newly elected LNP abandon them all?

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AER to investigate cause of extended blackouts in Broken Hill and why the grid was not more resilient. Will it shed light on whether the regulatory and grid management processes are fit for purpose?

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"We want to walk together to create economic benefits to the Indigenous community while delivering cost effective and sustainable energy solutions," says head of new First Nations owned retailer. 

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New Queensland premier already faces a push from the LNP right wing on nuclear, but how serious is he about killing wind and solar projects and burning coal for eternity?

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A decade ago Australians were expected to quit the grid en masse. That has that not happened, but an understanding as to who should be off-grid is emerging.

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Broken Hill battery finally charges up to support power supplies in the storm damaged region, but why was the technology to support a micro-grid deliberately disabled in the first place?

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