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Installation of the first of 444 Tesla Megapack battery systems is underway at one of the biggest grid-scale batteries in Australia.

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South Australia has overtaken Tasmania as the country's most renewable state, and achieved this with wind and solar rather than hydro.

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Deal with South Korea utility will fund early works and studies on a potential $100 million project featuring 50 gigawatts of wind and solar.

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Victoria may have better coffee, NSW a more iconic bridge, but Queensland is winning the race for solar energy in a report card from the Climate Council.

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Six new big battery projects named as winners of the federal government's first auction under the Capacity Investment Scheme.

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GE Vernova has blamed its latest offshore blade failure on a giant 13 MW wind turbine on a combination of storm winds during the commissioning process.

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Danish energy giant marks new chapter in "green transformation" with closure of Esbjerg Power Station, in western Denmark.

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TotalEnergies will deploy a floating wind turbine to help power an offshore gas platform in the North Sea, in a “decarbonisation” effort that seems to have lost something in translation.

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New star performer out west tops the wind rankings again, while the Sunshine state profits from another sunny winter month to clean up on the solar side.

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The far-right party AfD scored its first ever state election win in eastern Thuringia and came a close second in neighbouring Saxony, while the parties of the federal coalition government in Berlin recorded heavy losses. One year ahead of the country’s next national elections, both states now face difficult coalition negotiations, as mainstream parties have […]

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Wind and solar investment improved in first half, but battery storage was again the breakout star.

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The most powerful battery in Australia, and biggest single power unit ever to be connected to the country's main grid, has completed the first stage of its connection and commissioning process.

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The share of coal power falls below 50 per cent average for whole week, for the first time in what industry observers are hailing as a "turning point."

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Zero Emissions Noosa is the only non-industry group in Queensland to receive a federal grant for a community battery.
Co-convenor Vivien Griffin discusses why they are so important.

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Mingyang Smart Energy completes installation of a 20MW offshore wind turbine, the world's largest.

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One spring does not make a year, let alone a decade, but spring clearly shows that more low variable cost supply will lower prices.

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Bowen says changes to W.A. offshore wind zone means that local will not be able to see the turbines from shore, even on a clear day.

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ARENA kicks off first funding rounds for Solar Sunshot, the program aiming to get Australian companies to play a key role in pursuit of ultra low cost solar.

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First CIS auction for battery storage in Western Australia more than six times over-subscribed.

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South Australia sources more than 101 per cent of its demand over past week from wind and solar, in last week of winter.

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