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Rooftop solar sends operational demand on Australia's main grid below 14GW for the first time, crunching the market opportunity for coal.

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A fully electrifed home powered by renewables will need less than 40% of the energy of its fossil-fueled counterpart. And save thousands.

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Matt Kean and his Tesla have done a wonderful job in convincing Dominic Perrottet to go green. But will the ideas stick when he becomes Premier?

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The fossil fuel industry has won a fight to enable the granting of offset certificates to carbon capture projects. It's so much worse than it sounds.

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Solar meets up to 106.1 pct of state demand in South Australia on Saturday morning, and later in the day rooftop solar alone reached 88.7 pct.

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Taylor gets extra ministerial responsibilities, and former IPA policy director Tim Wilson appointed assistant minister for energy and emissions reduction.

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Gerard Reid in Europe’s gas crisis, and NSW plans to replace coal with renewables.

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Taylor to reward carbon capture projects with potentially lucrative offset credits, channelling more subsidies to the controversial technology.

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Transgrid may be forced to buy a pair of ageing, dirty diesel generators - rather than investing in a world-leading renewable micro-grid - due to Australia's regulatory regime.

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Bango wind farm now has 10 operating turbines, as it continues a phased commissioning process.

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Renewable energy developer MPower secures grid connection for first of planned 20 solar farms.

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Genex chooses Tesla Megapack batteries for its 100MWh Bouldercombe project in Queensland.

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Gold Fields Australia and EDL won the Golden Gecko award for environmental excellence for their Agnew Hybrid Renewable project in Leinster, Western Australia.

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Senate oversight committee says controversial regulations that push ARENA into non renewable technologies, including CCS - be cancelled.

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Taylor and Pitt will spend another $250 million on controversial carbon capture projects - which may not be operational for almost a decade.

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Italian energy giant Enel to treble its renewable energy capacity by 2030 and fast-track its exit from coal power to 2027.

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Switch to five-minute settlements on Friday will favour fast technologies such as battery storage over lumbering end-of-life assets such as coal plants.

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Stanwell profits surge as CS Energy deals with Callide C failure, in a volatile year for Queensland's state owned coal plants.

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5MS will encourage investment in battery storage, but it will also bring create risks for renewable generators.

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