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Questions remain around who will bankroll the tens of gigawatt-hours of battery storage needed for energy arbitrage in Australia.

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The decline of "baseload" has been predicted for many years, now South Australia is showing a grid can operate without it.

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Australian households could save billions in energy expenditure, while slashing emissions, by going electric and renewable.

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Morrison government slammed for deeply inadequate "climate policy pamphlet" and failure to break Australia's "dangerous" coal addiction.

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Genex strikes revenue sharing deal with Tesla, which will operate its Autobidder system at new Queensland battery that features its Megapack technology.

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World's biggest metals trader plans huge renewable hydrogen facility at Port Pirie to help improve the competitiveness of the local smelter.

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AEMO sets out a "must-do" list to fill in knowledge gaps of how to manage a grid heading for "uncharted operating conditions."

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A new Australian company called Nexsphere unveils plans to build an "over-the-horizon" wind farm of up to 1GW off the coast of north-east Tasmania.

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A tiny 7.4MW wind farm in Victoria’s Wimmera region has started power up, registering small amounts of power from its spot on the grid.

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Woodside sets $7 billion target for 'low carbon' energy investments, the oil and gas giant recognising there's money to be made in renewables and hydrogen.

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New analysis shows Australia achieving record highs for wind and solar, pushing emissions and prices down. But gas and oil remain well entrenched.

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Carnegie Clean Energy's Australian wave energy technology selected to compete in round one of a program designed to advance global wave power industry.

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Neoen reveals plans for another big battery in South Australia which could be even bigger than the Victorian Big Battery opened on Wednesday.

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5B’s Chris McGrath joins us to talk about 5B’s new acquisition and gigawatt scale deployment plans. Plus: Confusion over DC Isolators.

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The Clean Energy Council is proud to announce the 15 recipients of the 2021 Chloe Munro Scholarship for Transformational Leadership. The eponymous scholarship was set up in recognition of the enormous legacy of the late Chloe Munro AO, to continue Chloe’s legacy and support the next wave of female leaders in Australia. Throughout her lifetime, […]

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Australia's biggest battery - and one of the biggest in the world - officially opened near Geelong, just 12 months after contract signed.

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Two South Australian trail blazers – one in Australian solar panel manufacturing and one in panel recycling – join forces to address the national PV waste problem.

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AGL and Fortescue plan to transform Hunter coal plants into massive green hydrogen hub with wind, solar, storage and manufacturing.

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Questions raised around claimed emissions reductions at massive Morrison government backed CCS project, that may increase fossil fuel use.

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AEMO outlines tender timeline for the wind, solar and storage that will replace NSW's ageing coal fleet.

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