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Canada Q3 sales figures show Nissan Leaf and Tesla Model 3 leading way in battery electric vehicle sales – and Model 3 only hit north America market in May.

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ARENA tips $2.9m into trial with Monash University and technology partner Indra Australia to run Clatyon campus entirely on renewable energy.

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Solar’s big year, an interview with German battery storage maker Senec, and a round-up of the highlights of the All Energy conference.

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Melbourne Renewable Energy Project partners and Pacific Hydro are celebrating after taking home one of the Premier’s 2018 Sustainability Awards.

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SolarEdge has entered into definitive agreements to acquire a major stake in Kokam, a provider of Lithium-ion battery cells, batteries and energy storage solutions. 

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PRESS RELEASE Tritium Pty Ltd’s global success in the electric vehicle fast-charger market has been recognised with the Premier of Queensland’s Exporter of the Year Award and the Manufacturing Award. The Awards were announced last night (October 11, 2018) at a gala dinner in Brisbane. As a winner of the Queensland Awards, Brisbane-based Tritium automatically...

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Energy rule-maker says market gaming "not an issue", but says Tesla and other batteries will be able to use re-bidding practice to lower prices, rather than inflate them, and are already doing so.

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Little surprise that the Coalition is mixing its message on climate, but overall it's clear to see our current leaders are unwilling to part with the financial support of Australia’s coal barons.

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Hawaiian utility talking to developers of seven solar-plus-storage projects as it seeks to fast-track transition to 100 per cent renewable energy.

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Beware the latest rooftop solar scare campaign from the networks. There are more important things to do than to demonise solar households.

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Alex Turnbull says cheap renewables means no trade-off between lowering power bills and reducing emissions. If only his dad had said that.

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Telstra's 68MW solar farm begins production, marking another big shift of Australian corporates choosing renewables to lock in low prices.

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The word's largest solar tower and storage is completing its final tests. Our correspondent was there to take a look at the solar future.

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Mazda says it will reduce tailpipe emissions from its vehicles by making use of an electrified and low emission rotary engine.

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Tritium installs Australia's 50th publicly accessible DC fast charger at the Hunter Valley Gardens, in Pokolbin.

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Israeli government announces stop to sales of new petrol or diesel cars from 2030, as it pushes for 100% electric cars.

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Risen Energy buys the 100MW (AC) Merredin solar farm, promising to begin construction of what will be Western Australia's largest solar farm by year end.

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Big energy professes to be focused on the consumer. But its eagerness to slow down the uptake of rooftop solar shows it still has only one thing on its mind: profits.

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AEMO's Zibelman says exiting coal fired generation does not mean the lights going out.

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Flow Power adds third wind project – in third state – to business retail energy portfolio, with contract with Sapphire wind farm in northern NSW.

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