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Vestas Australia, the only global energy company dedicated exclusively to wind energy - today announced the appointment of Peter Cowling as Country Head /VP, Sales Australia and New Zealand.

Ambitious solar and storage developer Lyon Group embroiled in an escalating court battle with US solar giant First Solar, just as it seeks to complete sale of some of its biggest projects.

Big win for battery storage in change to market settlement periods that will be introduced .... in four years time.

Carnegie Clean Energy set to build 10MW Northam Solar Farm, after selection of indigenous co-equity investors in the merchant project.

NT govt supports plant to take Territory to 50% renewables by 2030, including funding for household solar and battery storage, and a plan for reverse solar auctions.

ARENA says battery storage will struggle to make ends meet because of undeveloped nature of some key markets in Australia.

AEMC chief John Pierce has had a long run at AEMC chief, perhaps long enough. And why sale of Loy Yang B is good for competition.

Homeowners will be able to make a positive impact on their finances as well as the environment, through a new solar initiative launched this week by NAB and Origin.

The current chaos around climate and energy policy brings to mind George Santayana’s caution that: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. That is exactly what we are witnessing.

AEMO says it "ready for summer". While it expects no major outages, the biggest risk remains catastrophic failure of network or fossil fuel assets, and highlights importance of demand response, storage, solar PV, and new market rules.

ARENA says much of its remaining $700m-plus could be could be directed towards large-scale energy storage projects, to bring down costs as it has done with large-scale solar.

The first stage of huge solar and "water battery" storage project in an old gold mine in Queensland about to start exporting to grid.

Tesla battery testing shows major charging and discharging – a novelty to the grid. Both AEMO and SA government sound pretty happy.

Our modelling shows renewable energy can help hit Australia’s emissions reduction target of 26-28% below 2005 levels by 2030 effectively for free.

The first panels have now been installed at White Rock Solar Farm, the development is a solar-wind hybrid renewable energy facility.

Lord Howe Island wanted renewables to lessen its reliance on imported fossil fuel, but the idea has been killed by environment and energy minister Josh Frydenberg. This is why he has made the wrong decision.

The issuance of the C2C certification demonstrates JinkoSolar’s commitment to high environmental, health, and safety standards in its products and manufacturing processes as well as the promotion of environmental and sustainable best practices within the solar industry.

CWP proposes a second major solar and storage project for New England region of NSW, this time based around 600MW of solar.

Large scale solar industry breathes sigh of relief after Queensland poll shows likely return of Palaszczuk government, and the retention of 50 per cent renewables target.

When the NEG was nebulous, its boosters were able to promise all things to all people. Now, with slightly more detail out, it will be a really hard sell.