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John Grimes from the Smart Energy Council on China's robo-taxis, and its lead on battery, EVs, solar and hydrogen. Plus: The ISP, Matt Kean and nuclear.

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Developers have broken ground on plans to build, own, and operate dozens of 5MW, two-hour batteries on distribution networks in regional Australia, in a bid to fill a “crucial gap” between home energy storage and grid-scale big batteries. The portfolio of 27 distribution battery energy storage systems, or DBESSs, was announced earlier this month by […]

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Peter Dutton reportedly compares wind turbines to 5G towers as Coalition insists it is really a "huge" supporter of renewables, despite Nationals plan to bring them to a stop.

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New rules on the connection process for wind, solar and battery projects - the subject of numerous delays, cost blowouts and contractor failures, have finally been unveiled.

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Under the Coalition’s plan for nuclear power, emissions from the electricity sector in 2050 would be nearly 19 times higher than under Labor’s plan

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City of Melbourne switches on the first of three community batteries to help provide power apartments with excess rooftop solar.

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New solar farm in northern Victoria has sent its first bursts of power to the grid, although it may not be fully operational until 2025.

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Producers of pet food, barramundi and wine will receive federal funding to study ways to save power and cut pollution, spurring others to fish for change.

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Planning approval given for the Central-West Orana renewable energy zone, the first in Australia to achieve this step.

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The world's biggest solar panel makers now produce vastly more useful energy than Big Oil.

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Ageing gas fired power station to have one of its units converted into a syncon to help accommodate more solar on the Top End grid.

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Environmentalists to protest approval of expansion of Gina Rinehart coal seam gas field in same region that a solar farm was rejected just weeks ago.

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Researchers say they have a possible solution for perovskite solar cell instability that could jettison the technology from lab to market: a new way of designing the cell itself.

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Australia must heed Pacific calls for a more ambitious climate strategy as the region faces an existential threat, a former environmental lawyer turned Greens senator says.

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Squadron Energy says AEMO's plan for the national grid reinforces the need to roll out new solar and wind capacity "at speed" – and the huge risks if we don't.

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The 600 MW wind farm is the first of four large projects planned in partnership with a newly formed Macquarie offshoot.

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A 335 MW wind farm cleared for development by NSW is now waiting on federal environmental approval, after a decision on the project was delayed for a second time.

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Households - and their rooftop solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles - will be driving force of the green energy transition, and will could mean less need for grid scale investments.

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AEMO planning blueprint confirms that renewables and storage the cheapest and smartest way to replace coal, and nuclear would be too slow and costly. But is the rapid transition quick enough?

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A coal-fired power plant explosion described as a "catastrophic missile event" and one of the state's greatest scandals could have been avoided, a report has found.

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