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Cheaper power for households through improved access to rooftop solar, battery storage and efficient electric appliances topped the agenda for energy and climate ministers in Melbourne on Friday.

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The combined output of large scale wind and solar in Australia's main grid hit a new high this week, beating a record set more than a year ago.

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Fortescue announcement reinforces fact that one company can’t do it alone – Australia needs a coordinated approach to future green industries – including renewable hydrogen.

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Australia’s largest operational solar farm will soon help power residential aged care and the production of iconic beer brands, as part of two new energy offtake deals.

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What we learned from Ted O'Brien, Chris Bowen and everyone else at the CEC summit. Plus: Hydrostor's Jon Norman on why advance compressed air storage is beating pumped hydro, and why even nuclear needs lots of storage.

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Investor view effective climate policies as crucial for "green steel", which most say can not be produced by burning fossil fuels.

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Clean energy industry gets its first Ted Talk and rather wishes it hadn't.Plus: Chris Bowen's power play, regulators pan nuclear, Forrest drops hydrogen hype, and some awards.

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Renewable energy covered 57 per cent of Germany's electricity consumption in first half of 2024, a nearly 10 per cent jump, year-on-year.

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The 1GW-plus project being developed by Alinta Energy and Parkwind – and intended to help power Portland aluninium smelter – has applied for a feasibility licence.

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The digital twin software can calculate how billions of rays of light – including light reflected off the ground – will affect solar panel output.

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Investigations underway after a blade on a massive Haliade-X wind turbine crumpled, leaving debris in the water and washing up on Nantucket beaches.

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CEFC's Grace Tam on how green finance can turbo charge household electrification – and why access to service providers and information is just as important.

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Zen Energy signs MoU to help power huge magnetite mine with firmed renewables, in move to underpin South Australia green iron production.

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Either the federal government needs to boost its subsidies by tens of billions a year, or plans for renewable hydrogen to replace fossil fuels are just greenwash.

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Leading e-waste processor will add solar recycling to its repertoire after getting financial backing to reboot a panel processing facility in NSW.

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Farmers will have to take on expensive responsibilities in the event of an emergency if the Coalition's nuclear policy comes to fruition, the government says.

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RMIT engineers invent a new device that could offer a cheaper and more efficient method of seabed testing used to design offshore wind farms.

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Smart energy company GridBeyond launches frequency control ancillary services auto-rebidder designed to meet the needs of Australia's increasingly renewable market.

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A total of 10 projects are moving to the next stage of development in Australia's first offshore wind zone after another batch were granted feasibility licences.

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The bidding activities of some of Australia's biggest utilities was so blatant, even the regulator took notice. Can they really be trusted on consumer energy resources? There's a problem here.

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