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Wind overtakes gas for first time, solar displaces coal in Queensland, and curtailment more than doubles in South Australia as renewables hit record levels across the country.

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Monash University and ClimateWorks Australia have won the Momentum for Change Award presented by the United Nations at the Climate Week conference in New York for the Net Zero initiative.

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AEMO appears sidelined as Taylor underlines push for "24/7" base-load power and industry pushes for "capacity" payments.

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Renewable energy capacity has for the first time overtaken fossil fuel capacity in Great Britain, with 42 GW worth of capacity now feeding into the grid.

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AGL has given 7 years' notice of its plans to shutter Liddell – but a new rule finalised by the AEMC means Australia's ageing coal plants must notify AEMO at least 3 years ahead of permanent closure.

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Over the next few decades the world’s energy systems will undergo a seismic revolution, with a transformation on a massive scale as renewable energy takes over from fossil fuels.

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Victoria Labor promise to boost its target for renewables generation to 50 per cent by 2030 if re-elected. It will probably get there anyway.

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Ausnet canvasses idea of charging connection fees of "several hundreds of dollars" to new solar households that refuse network limitations.

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Energy minister Angus Taylor wants to get new investment in coal and gas locked away before the next election.

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Kimberley Clean Energy Roadmap reveals 60-90% mix of solar, battery storage and wind power can out-compete diesel or fracked gas on cost across the region.

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JA Solar has supplied all solar modules to South Australian Water Corporation ("SA Water") for its 4.14MW coastal photovoltaic project.

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Solar PV and wind energy are growing fast enough to eliminate global coal, oil and gas consumption before 2050 - if politics allows.

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BloombergNEF says networks and consumers set to drive global energy storage boom worth $A1.7 trillion, as cost of batteries tumbles by 52%.

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Tennessee Valley Authority, not a great fan of non-hydro renewables, signs deal two big solar developments that will deliver 100% renewable energy to local Facebook data centres.

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Dubia expends the scale of its mega solar park, and does so at a world-record low price for solar.

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Once fully operational its 330,000 photovoltaic cells will generate enough power to supply 65,000 Australian homes.

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Tesla and Genex push for rule changes that would allow battery and pumped hydro storage to be properly paired with wind and solar farms.

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Delta Electricity wins state approval to build a 55MW solar farm adjoining its ageing Vales Point coal power station on Lake Macquarie in NSW.

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New study shows that solar plants can provide flexibility for grid operator that reduces use of thermal generators and battery storage, and delivers even lower emissions.

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The myth that coal power equates to grid reliability is not unique to Australia. Here's what happened when an old clunker was removed from the grid in northern Illinois.

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