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Green Gravity says it has secured $9 million in new funding to develop its gravitational energy storage technology that it hopes to deploy in disused mines.

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Victoria's constitution will be altered to include Labor's signature election promise to revive the State Electricity Commission after a surprise change of heart from cross-benchers.

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Inquiry told the emerging green hydrogen sector is "frustrated" by delays to the introduction of a mechanism to track and verify emissions associated with hydrogen, renewable electricity and other resources.

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Queenslanders will be asked to vote in a plebiscite on nuclear energy at the next federal election if Labor Premier Steven Miles is re-elected. 

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Plans to build more than a gigawatt of solar on sugar cane farming land in north Queensland have been cleared for construction by the local council.

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Sweden's OX2 follows up its 2023 purchase of a large solar portfolio in Australia with the acquisition of a gigawatt scale wind and battery project.

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Dongfang Electric says it has completed the production of a mammoth 26MW offshore wind turbine, by far the most powerful turbine yet to roll off the production line.

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The development of the Port of Newcastle’s Clean Energy Precinct has taken important new steps with the signing of agreements for key design work and environmental impact studies.

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Our analysis assumes a fraction of the data centre demand forecasts modelled in the central scenario of the market operator's grid plan.

The post Data centres, electrification and green hydrogen: The big demand questions for the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian solar innovator SunDrive strikes agreement with China solar giant that could be big boost to Labor's Made in Australia plans and its Solar Sunshot program.

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There are deliberate campaigns underway to spread misinformation and disinformation about renewables, particularly in regional areas, in an attempt to delay this crucial transition.

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The size of big battery projects in Australia is rapidly increasing, with the latest proposal around eight times bigger than the current biggest operating battery in the country.

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Solar PV mounted on the nation's rooftops have supplied more than 50 per cent of the main grid's power demand for the first time.

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Construction begins at Hydrogen Park Murray Valley, where a 10MW electrolyser is expected to generate around 500 tonnes of renewable hydrogen a year for use in gas mains.

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Australia could create thousands of jobs and transition workers out of the fossil fuel industry if wind towers were produced at home, a research group says.

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Renewable records continue to tumble, while a big battery helps solve one of the grid's main challenges. Julius Susanto from Ampere Labs joins us to explain. Plus: Lots of big wind stories.

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The growth of rooftop solar is creating new headaches for the market operator in terms of minimum demand. But the first big battery in the country's most vulnerable state may have already fixed the problem.

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State Coalition parties seem determined to stop renewables, with Victoria re-heating a decade-old wind buffer plan and Queensland vowing to burn coal for as long as it can.

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Wind propulsion technology today is as far removed from 18th century sailing ships as today's Formula 1 cars are from 18th century horse-drawn carts.

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Ikea owner signs up for another stake in Australia's biggest wind project as production ramps up.

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