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Highlights from the high level NEG document distributed to COAG energy ministers ahead of next Friday’s meeting.

Specialist fund manager Infradebt and specialist renewables co-investor Impact Investment Group announce close of $12m senior debt facility for 20MW Chinchilla Solar Farm.

Sweden trials road-embedded EV charging technology, a solution it believes could solve problems of EV cost and range anxiety.

The dramatically dropping costs of offshore wind have sparked an explosion interest in renewables in the US.

BHP axes membership with global coal lobby group, citing “material difference” over its climate advocacy. But is this hypocrisy?

Acciona wins contract to develop, finance, construct and operate $500m 300MW Aldoga solar farm in Gladstone, one of Queensland's coal centres.

It’s been over a year since we “flicked the switch” at Stucco. Has it lived up to our dreams of slashed bills and grid dependence?

Any buyer of the ageing Liddell coal fired power generator needs to take account of the significant safety risks to workers of ageing, failing equipment.

There's good reason why Tesla founder and boss Elon Musk is back to sleeping on the company's giga-factory floor and directly supervising production.

Tesla’s production figures for the first quarter 2018 provide some cause for optimism. Could the company be building one million EVs a year by 2022?

SolarEdge’s Inverter with HD-Wave Technology Recognized Innovation in the Renewable Energy Category.

Battery storage uptake by Australian households is starting to take off. But is it a financial no-brainer? New analysis from SunWiz says ... it's complicated. If you care about return on investment, there's some things you should know.

Sonnen selected to provide 270 residential batteries for Melbourne property development, to cut household power bills by 60% and possibly help power a community water recycling plant.

Survey finds 62% of businesses plan to invest in battery storage in next 18 months. But can governments and regulators keep up?

Turnbull hails half a billion dollar, year long project that will turn Victoria brown coal into just three tonnes of hydrogen fuel. Has the world gone completely mad?

Victoria says its renewables auction six-times over-subscribed, and warns it won't accept NEG in current form.

Within days of each other, Google and Apple both announce they are now matching all of their electricity needs with renewable energy production.

The Australia Institute’s new Climate and Energy Program has released the Electricity Update of the National Energy Emissions Audit (The Audit*) for March 2018, authored by renowned energy expert Dr Hugh Saddler.

It's official, Craig Kelly MP doesn't rate RE. And while we don't mind that so much, we do mind his serial bending of the truth to beat up renewables, deny climate change, and shore up coal.

The ANU is taking a lead role in preparing the next international climate assessment, which will be vital in informing nations about the need to strengthen their actions in order to avoid dangerous global warming.