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US roofing giant launches rooftop solar company with plans to “revolutionise” the adoption of rooftop solar for “everyday consumers.”

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A renewables consortium from France and Saudi Arabia has won the tender to build a 400MW wind farm at a record-low price of 2.13 cents per kWh.

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Two new wind farms in the state of Victoria are now up and running, less than a year after construction began in March 2018.

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As temperatures soar around Australia, a reminder that power outages are much more likely to be caused by problems in your local network. And new coal plants won't help at all.

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Vestas wins contract to build 184MW wind farm in WA, taking the global giant to a total of 1GW of orders in Australia for 2018 alone.

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FTC Solar has been selected as the supplier for single-axis trackers for Thiên Tân Group’s 19 MWdc Mo Duc Solar project in Vietnam.

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Australia's record-breaking solar uptake, and the "duck curve" effect it is having on the NEM, will cause the “next major inflection” in the energy market, Morgan Stanley warns, and likely sooner than investors and industry players are expecting.

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The Bioenergy Australia board appointed Dr John Hewson as a Director and on 9 January 2019 has elected Dr John Hewson as new Chair, replacing outgoing chair Clean Energy Finance Corporations Chief Investment Officer Paul McCartney whose term as chair concluded.   

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The worm is starting to turn, as wind and solar power become widely acknowledged as the forthcoming mainstream suppliers of energy into the NEM. But can governments and regulators keep pace?

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Terregra Renewables has appointed Balance Utility Solutions as the EPC contractor for the 5MW Mobilong Solar Farm.

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Texas electric utility announces winning bids for its 2017 request for proposals, including a total of 200MW of utility-scale solar and 100MW of battery storage.

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Hawaii utility announces seven grid-scale solar-plus-storage projects to add approximately 262MW of solar energy and 1,048MWh of energy storage to the islands.

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300MW solar and battery-ready Mannum Solar Farm set to be built by Canadian Solar, help power Mid-Murray region agribusinesses, including major wine maker Pernod Ricard.

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First instalment of three-part series looking back at what the past year of energy policy turmoil has meant for the National Electricity Market (NEM).

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A new regulation has highlighted that consumers who used comparison sites typically paid 5-12% more than the lowest possible offer.

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Reach Solar's 900MW Yarrabee Solar Farm, approved for construction in NSW Riverina, will have capacity to power a city nearly twice the size of Newcastle.

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The first of its kind, this integrating technology means that consumers can now tell their Google Assistant to start and stop charging of their electric vehicle.

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New research reveals the United States sits on the precipice of what could be a monumental solar boom set to play out over the next five years.

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Solar's record-breaking 2018 is expected to continue into 2019, with forecasts of another 3GW-plus to be added in utility-scale solar alone, putting solar PV on track to deliver 10% of NEM demand by 2020.

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WestWind Energy's plans to build an 800MW wind farm in Victoria – potentially the largest in the Southern Hemisphere – win state government planning approval.

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