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It seems less and less likely an energy only market is the right design for a heavily renewables grid.

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Australia is headed for a future where solar is on every rooftop. The electricity market must be redesigned to see this as a resource to slash consumer bills – and not a risk. 

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Trinasolar has successfully begun commercial operations at a new agri-voltaic solar project in Japan that combines solar modules with a yam crop that thrives in the shade.

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Rooftop solar sends operational demand on Australia's main grid to a new winter low, as coal, wind and solar all forced to dramatically curtail output.

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Australia's only domestic solar module maker has signed a deal to source its aluminium frames from a local manufacturer, with an eye to a giga-scale future.

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"We search the planet for places like this." Two regional Queensland cities have been hailed as the "solution" to Australia's renewable energy ambitions.

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Victorian water utility says it has completed its transition to 100 per cent renewables, eight years after setting its target.

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WA's parliamentary inquiry into domestic gas supply has failed to look at solutions that could help manage its shortage problem and reduce emissions. 

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Big batteries projects are charging ahead beyond all expectations, helped by plunging costs. But where is the wind and solar, and what are the big utilities up to?

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Recent research shows there is a $6.7 billion missed opportunity if newly electrified hot water systems aren’t used as a flexible resource.

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Australian renewables gentailer Zen Energy signs PPA to buy the majority of the output of a hybrid solar and battery plant being built in New South Wales.

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Biggest battery in Queensland to double in size after AGL signs up to a 10-year "virtual" contract as big generators lock in to battery storage.

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New resin made using bio-derivable sugars means that wind turbine blades can be fully recycled, with the process taking just six hours per blade.

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A new boring machine will be operational by the end of 2025 and supplied by the same company that made the "disappointing" and frequently stuck Florence.

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Queensland company whose global award-winning and Arena funded technology underpinned Australia’s largest commercial microgrid has been placed in liquidation.

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It's not all bad news for renewables, but it's all good news for gas, as the Country Liberal Party wins government in the Northern Territory.

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The gas shortage that never was is over almost as soon as it began, while the government promises to find better ways to measure its real climate impact.

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Today marks a historic day for how Australia measures the methane emissions spewing out of its biggest coal and gas mines. But the government response is too slow.

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NSW government announces planning approval for huge solar farm that will be combined with one of the state's new eight hour battery projects.

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Giant North Sea offshore wind project to host floating seaweed farm.

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