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Australia to fund eight big battery projects with advanced "grid forming" inverters that will help close coal and narrow the gap to 100 pct renewables

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GE's Haliade-X wind turbine receives full type certificate for operations up to 14.7 MW from DNV GL, the world’s largest independent certification body.

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The generation of electricity by burning native forest wood waste will no longer be counted as renewable in Australia, as Labor makes good on Climate Bill negotiation promise.

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Firmed renewable energy from a mix of solar and wind remains by far the cheapest source of new-build electricity generation in Australia, despite a jump in costs across all technologies due to global inflationary pressures. This is the conclusion of the draft 2022-23 GenCost report from CSIRO, the latest annual update from the national science […]

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Tesla has taken its first steps towards becoming a major player in energy retailing, with the launch of an electricity plan to Powerwall customers.

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AEMO reveals four new scenarios for its next big planning document, with consumer owned rooftop PV and EVs, and green hydrogen the big swing factors.

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South Australia seeks partners for green hydrogen power plant for Whyalla, which it hopes will be as transformational as the original Tesla big battery.

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Danish developer takes majority stake in 3.6GW solar hydrogen and "power-to-X" project near Gladstone in Queensland.

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New Zealand infrastructure investor and Australia's politicians' super fund establish a new wind, solar and storage developer.

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Gas price cap passes parliament, electricity futures prices plunge and Greens hail "the end of gas" with a package designed to take the fossil fuel out of homes.

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AEMO’s head of system design, Merryn York, on the engineering roadmap to 100 per cent renewables. Plus: The gas price cap debate.

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Equinor to collaborate on the offshore wind plans of Australian renewables company Nexsphere to build a 1GW project 30km off the coast of north-east Tasmania.

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New report reveals Russia's invasion of Ukraine has delivered Australia's coal exporters windfall profits of up to $45 billion, with gas exporters reaping almost as much.

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Major new ANU report uses “heat maps” to identify which sites across Australia are – and are not – suitable for large-scale wind and solar projects.

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Snowy 2.0 contractor buys out crippled partner, but questions remain over fate of some other key projects including a transmission link and a gas generator.

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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund acquires nearly 10% stake in company with 30GW offshore wind pipeline, including three projects in Australian waters.

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Regulator says generators withheld capacity and deliberately acted to inflate prices. The actions may not have been illegal, but they showed "no regard" to market outcomes.

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5B, the Australian company specialising in low cost solar and rapid deployment, lands major funding deal with oil giant bp, and hopes to build its first big solar farm soon.

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The auto giant behind car brands including Jeep, Dodge, and Alfa Romeo, says the corporate PPA will take it to the equivalent of 100 per cent renewables in Michigan by 2026.

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Independent energy retailer Amber acquires Australia’s number one rated energy monitoring app, Powerpal, in a deal worth $9.5 million.

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