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The world's biggest isolated grid - in Western Australia - is experiencing growing number of periods of "potential" 100 per cent renewables. How is it handling it?

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Clint Hare on Australia's most sustainable housing development, which has been building all-electric, super energy efficient homes on Victoria's Bass Coast for the past decade – with huge success.

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Report finds keeping troubled Callide B coal plant open beyond 2028 could cost taxpayers up to $420 million a year.

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It’s not surprising that consumers would like to install PV, batteries, efficient appliances and smart management, as well as upgrading their homes’ thermal efficiency, to defend against the madness of energy markets.

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Wind farm targeted by National Party MP Barnaby Joyce and his wife has removed two turbines and relocated another 21, and offers what is described as the largest community enhancement fund in the country.

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A solar farm in Florida has been devastated by tornadoes spawned by Hurricane Milton, with a narrow path carved right through the middle.

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Energy minister Chris Bowen suggests the federal government already knew Equinor and its local partner Oceanex had backed out of Illawarra offshore zone.

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IEA says rapid deployment of low cost wind and solar the key if world is to navigate narrow path to 1.5°C climate target.

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Federal energy minister says Coalition's plan to add even existing gas plants to the Capacity Investment Scheme has "gaping holes" and questions to answer.

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WA approves new four hour 100 MW Wellesley battery in industrial zone.

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Australia's biggest utility - without a trace of irony - says renewables not being built fast enough to replace ageing and "unreliable" coal fleet.

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Green Gravity says it has secured $9 million in new funding to develop its gravitational energy storage technology that it hopes to deploy in disused mines.

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Victoria's constitution will be altered to include Labor's signature election promise to revive the State Electricity Commission after a surprise change of heart from cross-benchers.

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Inquiry told the emerging green hydrogen sector is "frustrated" by delays to the introduction of a mechanism to track and verify emissions associated with hydrogen, renewable electricity and other resources.

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Queenslanders will be asked to vote in a plebiscite on nuclear energy at the next federal election if Labor Premier Steven Miles is re-elected. 

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Plans to build more than a gigawatt of solar on sugar cane farming land in north Queensland have been cleared for construction by the local council.

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Sweden's OX2 follows up its 2023 purchase of a large solar portfolio in Australia with the acquisition of a gigawatt scale wind and battery project.

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Dongfang Electric says it has completed the production of a mammoth 26MW offshore wind turbine, by far the most powerful turbine yet to roll off the production line.

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The development of the Port of Newcastle’s Clean Energy Precinct has taken important new steps with the signing of agreements for key design work and environmental impact studies.

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Our analysis assumes a fraction of the data centre demand forecasts modelled in the central scenario of the market operator's grid plan.

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