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Owner of Waratah "super battery" says uncertainty around coal closures is a major hurdle for investors in Australia's transition to renewables.

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Conservatives and fossil fuel incumbents are still arguing the lights will go out with renewables. And they are still wrong. Here's why solar, batteries and electrification are taking over.

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Snowy 2.0's trouble-laden tunnel boring machine still stuck in hard rock a month after coming to latest halt, as contractors try to blast their way through with high pressure water jets.

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Farmers are going all electric and grazing cattle under solar arrays. It's an antidote to claims that renewables and agriculture cannot exist.

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The market for off-grid solar is booming in Australia as panel prices drop and customer scale up installation ambitions.

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New battery project next to one of Australia's oldest wind farms will be the first storage investment by the now Chinese owned company.

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New gigawatt scale wind project planned for cattle grazing land in central Queensland awaits EPBC decision.

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Big batteries - acting as virtual transmission - can boost capacity of existing grids, compensate for project delays and to reduce impacts on regional communities.

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Winning projects in latest Dutch "zero subsidy" offshore wind tender will include floating solar farms, artificial reefs and a green hydrogen facility.

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Head of major energy utility says the only way to kick out coal is to lock in gas as back-up to renewables "for the foreseeable future."

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AEMO boss decries misreporting of market operator documents, and says response to summer storms had boosted confidence in energy transition.

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Frontier says it's in the "fortunate position" where the costs of both solar and storage have fallen significantly since the release of the last feasibility study.

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A 95MW off-grid system comprised mostly of wind, solar and battery power switched on to power new lithium mine.

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Origin is juggling its portfolio of gas, battery and renewables projects to take advantage of a "messy" transition. But its biggest play is tapping into the assets of its retail customers.

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As coal-fired power plants retire, experts insist renewable energy supported by hydro, batteries and gas is the "lowest cost" way to supply homes and business.

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A rooftop solar system installed more than 30 years ago in France is still operating at just under 80 per cent of its original output, a new report has found.

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Contracting giant building some of Australia's landmark projects - including the biggest transmission link - hit by "negative margins" as costs soar.

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AGL takes stake in global energy software business with a management system designed to combine solar, batteries and EVs and deal with an energy "future you can't predict."

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Coalition's nuclear plan would fail to deliver net zero emissions on the grid by 2050, new analysis shows.

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Battle to build, install, and operate the world’s largest wind turbines has seen another record fall after the installation of an 18MW behemoth in China.

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