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Former UK climate minister John Gummer says Australian politicians still haven't accepted that climate change is happening and that they have a responsibility to act. 

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The Victorian Government is helping local businesses use more renewable energy technologies that reduce electricity costs, create jobs and support clean power.

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S.A-based Green Gold Energy reveals plans for two new solar farms totalling more than 300MW in south east region of state.

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AGL today announced it had completed the acquisition of Click Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ASX-listed amaysim Australia Limited, for $115 million

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Regulator finalises "light touch" changes to market rules that will prevent wind and solar dropping capacity with no notice when prices go negative.

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NSW energy minister Matt Kean breaks ranks with federal Liberal party colleagues, saying clean energy, not gas, is key to long term Australian prosperity.

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Tesla has been putting prototypes of its energy dense, high nickel 4680 cells into vehicles for some months, Elon Musk says.

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Zibelman says renewables share will approach 70 per cent "regularly" by 2030, but engineering and economics has and will cut through the politics.

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ESB chair Kerry Schott on why new market design will take grid beyond "engineers in brown cardigans" and governments that "buggerise around".

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NSW Independent Planning Commission approves massive Narrabri Gas Project, rejecting concerns of the environment and cost impacts of the project.

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ACT Labor pledges to build a 250MW 'Big Canberra Battery', through a 'distributed network of batteries' if re-elected in October.

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AEMO boss Audrey Zibelman to leave at end of the year to take a new job at Google X in San Francisco.

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"Never has the importance of such a push been clearer than at this momentous juncture.” IRENA report stresses importance of comprehensive policies to drive renewable jobs.

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ACT Labor leader Andrew Barr labels the Greens timeline for a gas phase-out as 'crazy', as the ACT election battle heats up.

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Independent Planning Commission told that proposed Narrabri gas development would lead to price rises for households and businesses.

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Wind and solar reach record share of generation in Australia's main grid, as gas relegated to a bit part.

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Warwick solar farm becomes the 25th large scale solar project to send power to the grid in Queensland.

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Australian super fund IFM partners with global oil trader to create a $2.8 billion joint venture targeting 2,000MW of new renewable and storage projects.

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After being hit by unanticipated grid connection issues, Tilt Renewables says its massive Dundonnell wind farm in Victoria is on track to be working at full capacity by summer.

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NSW and Queensland need a lot more capacity to meet their renewable targets, while Victoria will likely rely on closure of Yallourn to meet its target.

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