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South Australia unveils plans to build 250MW "virtual power plant", linking household rooftop solar and battery storage, in what it says will be world's biggest. It will involve 50,000 homes, each with 5kW rooftop solar and a Tesla Powerwall 2.

Australian Greens call on federal Labor to take a stance on ownership of the nation’s electricity grid, after unveiling a policy proposal that would seek to return it to public hands.

A new housing development in the ACT will trial a gas-free residential precinct initially incorporating 350 homes.

About 800MW of utility-scale renewable projects confirmed in the past six weeks. That's a pretty hot run-rate. And while the excitement has largely been about PV, the growth of wind is quite significant.

New report says Turnbull government's proposed National Energy Guarantee would fail in all of its stated goals, particularly that of boosting energy system security. On this, it says the approach proposed in the NEG "has no precedent in any power system anywhere, ever.”

New player in Australian renewables market backed by one of world's oil majors has big plans for solar and storage.

President Michelle Bachelet says Chile will not build new coal plants without carbon capture and begin talks to replace existing capacity with cleaner sources.

2018 will be the first triple-digit year for the global solar market -- but it will also have some bumps.

South Australian voters want to see the rest of Australia follow in the state’s clean energy footsteps.

NSW Premier suggests intervening in Liddell closure as way of "guaranteeing cheap and reliable electricity" for state.

The climate system will heat well past 1.5 °C and perhaps up to 2°C without any further fossil fuel emissions, new research finds.

Herbert Smith Freehills has cemented its reputation as the pre-eminent firm for project finance in the renewables sector across Australia and New Zealand after topping the Inframation Deals league tables for 2017 .

NAIF's first loan - to the oil and gas industry - is an effective subsidy to accelerate climate change.

Best performing utility in US says it will be soon be cheaper to install new renewables than to continue operating existing coal and nuclear plants.

Landis+Gyr announced that it has entered into an exclusive agreement with energy retailer Simply Energy to provide smart metering services to more than 550,000 households across Australia .

Arizona – a Republican Party stronghold – is poised to take the lead on energy storage as it mulls an 80 per cent clean energy target by 2050.

Cullen Range, the first solar farm to be co-located with a wind farm formally opened, to be followed by at least a dozen more.

Energy retailer Powershop signs up for new 200MW solar farm and two major wind projects and says it was "stunned" by the low prices offered. It will also buy three hydro generators, but will need to more than double customers to match output.

After a growth spurt from the 1960s to the '90s, then 20 years of stagnation, the Era of Nuclear Decommissioning is upon us.

Shorten says transition to renewables key to cheap and reliable energy, new industries, and the future of the reef. But he's going to have to work hard to make this a major issue in what could be an election year, and he needs to be clear about Adani.