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Comprehensive new report puts renewables at the centre of all plausible pathways to meet Australia's climate targets – including 10 years early. Nuclear, meanwhile, won't get us there by 2050.

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Australia has a time-critical opportunity to catalyse investment into this potential export behemoth at speed and scale. The clock is ticking.

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Spanish energy giant starts construction on its biggest solar project in Australia, to be paired with a big battery to help dodge negative prices.

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Australia's two biggest wind projects have injected their first power into the grid, as other wind and solar farms work quickly through the commissioning process, and others stumble.

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Australia has committed to reducing carbon emissions to net zero. The Climate Change Authority report is the most important analysis to date on how to get there.

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A government backed floating wave energy demonstration project is set to launch in the King George Sound off the southern coast of Western Australia.

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5B's chief strategy officer Nicole Kuepper-Russell on the company's journey from concept scribbled on a napkin, to a factory in Adelaide that is walking the talk on solar innovation made in Australia.

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The LNP won't support Queensland's legislated renewable energy targets and an omission may mean that they're also ditching wind.

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Installation of the first of 444 Tesla Megapack battery systems is underway at one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia.

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South Australia has overtaken Tasmania as the country's most renewable state, and achieved this with wind and solar rather than hydro.

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Deal with South Korea utility will fund early works and studies on a potential $100 million project featuring 50 gigawatts of wind and solar.

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Victoria may have better coffee, NSW a more iconic bridge, but Queensland is winning the race for solar energy in a report card from the Climate Council.

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Six new big battery projects named as winners of the federal government's first auction under the Capacity Investment Scheme.

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GE Vernova has blamed its latest offshore blade failure on a giant 13 MW wind turbine on a combination of storm winds during the commissioning process.

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Danish energy giant marks new chapter in "green transformation" with closure of Esbjerg Power Station, in western Denmark.

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TotalEnergies will deploy a floating wind turbine to help power an offshore gas platform in the North Sea, in a “decarbonisation” effort that seems to have lost something in translation.

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New star performer out west tops the wind rankings again, while the Sunshine state profits from another sunny winter month to clean up on the solar side.

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The far-right party AfD scored its first ever state election win in eastern Thuringia and came a close second in neighbouring Saxony, while the parties of the federal coalition government in Berlin recorded heavy losses. One year ahead of the country’s next national elections, both states now face difficult coalition negotiations, as mainstream parties have […]

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Wind and solar investment improved in first half, but battery storage was again the breakout star.

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The most powerful battery in Australia, and biggest single power unit ever to be connected to the country's main grid, has completed the first stage of its connection and commissioning process.

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