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Researchers from the University of Adelaide say they have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.

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Our response to climate change provides perhaps the greatest opportunity for investment, economic, export and employment growth Australia has ever seen. Can we harness it?

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Indonesia utility launches tender for another 100MW of floating solar as the archipelago seeks to grow its renewables supply.

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While data shows the fossil fuel industry yet again pouring money into Australia's major parties, the 2022 federal election changed the political donations game.

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Australia notched up the largest annual volume of 200MW-plus solar PV projects commissioned to date in 2022, new data shows.

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Coal generation has been falling since mid 2022, and as the renewables transition heats up, a decrease in fossil fuels – especially gas – will be the story of 2023.

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Energy retailer specialising in business market signs long term deal to take one quarter of the output of Darlington Point solar farm.

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One of Australia's first solar farms - and one of the most richly rewarded - has been sold by administrators.

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Biggest solar contractor in Australia reveals more losses, and crunched margins, as it struggles to make any money out of its international portfolio.

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Sun Cable sales process officially begins, with the salesman playing up both the proposed Singapore link and the strong demand for green hydrogen.

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Offshore wind is poised to make a critical contribution to Australia’s decarbonisation – but it's still missing the secret to success.

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"A giant of climate science:" Tributes flow for ANU Emeritus Professor Will Steffen, who died in Canberra on Monday.

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The solar arm of the global oil giant is advancing plans to build a 550MW solar farm with a 260MW/520MWh big battery – and sheep – in NSW.

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Solar farm revenues have fallen by half from the giddy heights of last year's market prices, but are still ahead of year earlier returns.

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Joyce attacks new wind project in NSW, one of the biggest in the state, and suggests a nuclear reactor would be a better idea.

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Bloomberg New energy Finance says investment in low carbon energy has hit a new high – and for the first time reached parity with capital invested in fossil fuels.

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Swedish wind power company SeaTwirl has won the right to proceed with testing its floating vertical-axis wind turbine in a fjord off the coast of Norway.

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Sydney-based renewables outfit completes acquisition of its newest small solar farm, the 5MW Faraday Renewable Energy Project in central Victoria.

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Spanish energy giant to build four small "agri-solar" farm projects that prioritise benefits to crops and and livestock over solar production.

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Big batteries earned record high revenue on the National Electricity Market during 2022 – here's how.

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