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A change in governance and a rapid shift to renewables should ensure this is the last energy crisis for Australia, says Simon Corbell, the head of the Clean Energy Investment Group.

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ACT joins Victoria with a commitment to phase out the use of gas in homes and businesses by 2045, and shift to electrification backed by solar and storage.

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Energy ministers are poised to put environment back into the national electricity market objective, removing a massive roadblock that has stymied the switch to renewables.

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PPA signs Charter Hall up to a seven-year contract to buy 151GWh of renewable energy a year from Engie – enough to power roughly 26,000 homes.

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Greens leader Adam Bandt says his party will do its bit to "end the climate wars" by supporting Labor's 2022 Bill. But really, this is just a cease fire.

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Bill Gates' clean energy fund leads fund raising for technology that automates and accelerates development, construction, and operation of large scale solar plants. 

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Transmission and balance of plant works finally begin on delayed wind project near Port Fairy in Victoria.

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Wind output records tumble on Wednesday as a series of storms sweep across southern Australia, taking prices down with them.

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As Germany turns to coal to get through the gas supply crisis, estimates suggest emissions may have increased by 10m tonnes in the first half of the year.

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Illuminating new research suggests we can rethink the type of silicon needed to make high-efficiency solar cells.

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Solar installers are now required to take selfies during installations, and we speak to the CEO of Hysata, an Australian start-up claiming the world’s lowest cost green hydrogen electrolyser technology.

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Global renewable energy investment reached $US226 billion in the first half of 2022, a record that defied supply chain challenges and cost inflation.

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The output of large scale wind and solar sets new record on Monday.

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Sudden price falls in gas and electricity markets have caught out Australia's fossil fuel cartels - like a trillion dollar toddler - with their hands in the cookie jar.

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Victorian network company Powercor finds way to squeeze more wind and solar onto its grid without expensive new infrastructure or hefty curtailment.

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Driving gas and coal out of the system will reduce prices. Driving them out more quickly - with the help of a storage target - will deliver additional public benefits.

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AEMO briefs investors on the first of many auctions designed to bring in wind, solar and storage to replace ageing coal plants in the country's biggest grid.

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The stage one wind farm of Neoen's massive Goyder Renewables Zone has notched up its second power purchase deal, this time with Flow Power.

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A blade has fallen off a wind turbine at an Industrial Park in Massachusetts, US – the latest in a spate of incidents at wind farms.

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The Northern Territory is rolling out its first hydrogen energy storage system, with 8kWh of storage, in partnership with the Charles Darwin University.

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