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Tesla commences deliveries of first Model 3s to Australian customers, heralding what is hoped to be an acceleration of EV uptake in Australia.

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NSW city best known for its busy coal port wants to take council operations 100% renewable by 2020, with a combination of installed solar and a renewable off-take deal.

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Wholesale electricity prices rose in every state last financial year, some to record highs.

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Australia's emissions rise again to a seven year high, but minister for emissions reductions Angus Taylor says that is a really good thing, because of gas.

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Sydney-based electric motorbike maker Fonzarelli unveils its first full electric motorbike with mid-drive motor and looks to South Australia as a possible home to manufacturing.

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Plans to build an 800km transmission line between New South Wales and South Australia given "critical infrastructure" status by NSW government.

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Experts tell inquiry that increasingly expensive large-scale nuclear power, and as-yet unproven small reactor technology, cannot compete with firmed renewables.

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Windlab says banks nervous due to project delays, cost over-runs, and tighter new standards, and this will add to cost of capital, and cause yet more delays.

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One Stop Warehouse has signed exclusive agreements with ALEO Solar, Risen Energy and Tongwei Solar (TW Solar) to supply new products into the Australian PV markets.  

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Susan Kennedy is the former chief of staff to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now the two have teamed up to offer artificial intelligence and machine learning to integrated wind, solar and storage.

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By the end of 2020, LONGi will upgrade its existing cell and module lines and transform them for production with 166mm wafer.

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Researchers from Australian National University set new solar record, notching up highest ever efficiency levels for perovskite cells above a certain size, at 21.6%.

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Oz Minerals looks to wind and solar to provide up to 80% of the power needs for huge nickel and copper project planned for central Australia.

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The Model 3 is certainly something different, and could change the minds of EV-doubters, and mark a shift in the lagging EV market in Australia.

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Nexif, Infigen agree to lease S.A. government's back up diesel generators, convert them to gas and pair with their wind farms and battery storage units.

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As another Australian journalist wades into the nuclear culture wars – this time spruiking small modular reactors – it's a good time for a fact-check on this fabled technology.

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The conference program for All-Energy Australia, the leading Australian clean and renewable energy event, has been announced for 2019, with over 200 speakers across two days.

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Victoria Labor government yields to calls to fix troubled rooftop solar rebate, with raft of changes including almost tripling number of applications open for September.

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Forecast blackout threats for this coming summer in Victoria could be avoided with a highly targeted, aggressive demand reduction air conditioning upgrade program.

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The Coalition is deliberately white-anting Australia's electricity governance, and the result will likely be a slower transition, and an increased risk of blackouts.

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