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Solar tracker manufacturer PVH has announced a landmark collaboration with developerGPG Australia

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Just 5 per cent of the 120 objections to the solar and battery project came from residents within 5km of the project. One quarter were from more than 100km away.

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NAB's Andrew Smith on the challenges of raising equity for Australia's renewable energy transition. Plus: News of the week.

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Australia's largest companies and financial institutions must provide greater detail on how climate change is affecting strategy and key business decision under amendments to the Corporations Act.

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Plans to build a massive wind farm of up to 1.3GW in Victoria's north have joined the queue for federal environmental approval.

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Federal Labor has allowed a policy based on leveraging our comparative advantage in clean energy to be hijacked by claims we need more gas. We don't.

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The incident is the second to hit the massive 3.2GW Dogger Bank project in the UK and the third involving GE Vernova's 13MW Haliade-X turbines.

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Australian flow battery pioneer Redflow placed in administration after failing to find backers for its first megawatt-hour scale storage.

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Workers at coal and gas-fired power plants that are set for closure will be offered a raft of support including paid retraining and redeployment under new laws.

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The unseasonably warm weather is causing renewable energy records to tumble early, driven by surge in solar output in Australia's most coal dependent state.

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Three years of daily simulations show that very close to 100% renewable electricity is feasible for Australia’s main grid at reasonable cost, using just several hours of battery storage.

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Testing, testing... South Australian households were given little warning as SAPN conducted tests of its rooftop solar curtailment mechanism on Thursday.

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Unforeseen delays to onshore infrastructure will cost the Danish wind giant more than $US300 million after pushing the commercial operation date out by a year.

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At the request of Tesla and other developers, big batteries could be exempted from a contentious energy market rule designed to plug future supply gaps.

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The Greens are right to challenge some details of the Future Made in Australia Act. But its passage is crucial to our climate and economic goals.

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Anthony Albanese calls on the Greens to support the government's signature Future Made in Australian plan, as negotiations begin on the proposal's future.

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AEMO says world is watching as Australia leads in the penetration of wind and solar in the grid and addresses the engineering challenges.

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Nic Stone talks to Solar Insiders about the myriad innovative off-grid projects that are using PowerPlus Energy's Australian made – and made for Australia – batteries. Plus: Big solar approvals, small solar canned.

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Sun Cable is still juggling its technology options as prices for solar, battery storage and wind turbines move around. Its biggest challenge might be converter stations.

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The Texas grid has many similarities to Australia, and this week it dealt with record demand in a searing heatwave with no problems, thanks to solar and battery storage.

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