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Infratil Limited and Mercury NZ Limited have today announced their intention to make a full takeover offer for Tilt Renewables Limited, Infratil and Mercury already respectively hold or control 51.04% and 19.99% of the Tilt Renewables shares.

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Scottish researches claim breakthrough in flow battery technology that could see electric vehicles being charged in a fraction of the time of current standards.

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Infigen Energy to install 25MW/52MWh Tesla Powerpack battery storage system at its Lake Bonney wind farm in South Australia.

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Gupta confirms plans for 1GW of dispatchable renewables at ground-breaking ceremony at new Cultana solar project, a day after Coalition agree to NEG policy that models zero new investment in large-scale renewables and storage over next decade.

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Construction of the 48-turbine Cattle Hill Wind Farm commenced recently, with the project aiming to be fully operational in 2019. The project is expected to have up to 150 jobs on site during construction peaks on site and employ up to 10 permanent staff when operational.

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Smart Energy Council counts eight "lies" told by the federal energy minister in his Sunday ABC TV interview – and fact-checks them all.

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Turnbull says he would welcome new coal generator, and prepares to fight Labor on emissions.

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Macquarie snaps up Conergy solar team and portfolio to deepen its interest in battery storage.

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Study suggests 40 million EV charging points may be built globally within the next 12 years.  But in China, they may have built too many chargers too soon.

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Coalition MPs vote for NEG designed to stop wind, solar and battery investments, while Turnbull hails possibility of a new coal fired generator to provide "baseload" power.

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Brisbane-based EV charger maker Tritium has notched up some pretty significant installs lately, but this one is perhaps the coolest.

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Norwegian EV drivers have snapped up the first shipment of Hyundai's all-electric CUV, with pre-orders reportedly capped at 20,000.

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Government confirms that there was no detailed modelling for NEG, raising further questions – and outrage – over its claimed benefits.

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Woolnorth owns and operates three wind farms leveraging Tasmania’s world class wind resources to generate approximately 9 percent of Tasmania’s electricity needs.

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Ratch Australia's 42.5MW solar project powers up, at its location next to the decommissioned Collinsville coal plant.

Amid stand-off over the NEG, state and federal ministers took a major step forward on renewables integration by deciding to take action on AEMO's 20-year blueprint, and got enthusiastic about Alan Finkel's big ideas for renewable hydrogen.

Two new reports confirm NEG would kill off renewable energy in Australia after 2021, put Australia at "back of pack" on climate.

A NEG is worth having only if the ambition can be (easily) lifted, otherwise it's worse than useless, locking in a do-nothing policy for a decade.

Tesla to unveil Model 3 electric vehicles for first time in Australia next week, as analysts report production nears end of August target of 6,000/week.

Sims urges Coalition MPs to abolish rooftop solar subsidies as part of a package including the underwriting of "firm capacity" and price controls.