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AEMO explains caution of grid operations in South Australia, saying it is way out front of rest of the world and in virgin territory. But there is debate on grid weakness is due to wind farms or ageing gas units with the wrong settings.

PM is chuffed about his rooftop PV and storage, and so he should be. Installations like that will be of greater value to the grid than Liddell, which is a similar age and condition to the Hazelwood generator Turnbull admitted was "very old" and no longer viable.

Repowering WA’s South West Integrated System grid with renewables would not increase the wholesale electricity price, new modelling shows.

It is the worst of all worlds: a market-based system but with extensive and unpredictable intervention by governments that tend to undermine investor confidence

As AEMO works to shore up Australia's grid, fossil fuel proponents are barracking for "a giant blackout on a super hot day this coming summer.”

Retailer Flow Power signs PPA with Ararat wind farm to pass on cheap renewable energy to business customers. It aims for 1,000MW of such contracts.

Liddell was bought for nothing and for good reason - "it's clapped out". Turnbull's intervention raises probity issues and could have as devastating an impact on new technology as canning of the carbon price and the attempt to kill the RET.

Joyce says Australia under attack from “green peril”, that will only become apparent to all when the power goes out, leaving people stuck in a lift, busting for a pee. Oh, and he doesn't think India will want Australia's thermal coal. Say, what?

While politicians waffle on climate change, Los Angeles is tackling the problem head on with a radical plan to lower the temperature of the city.

Whatever the recent VEEC market volatility may imply, it seems clear that the intent exists within government to bring about change, the question now remains what will the end result be?

Though the awareness of climate risk disclosure has become more prevalent, such disclosures by Australian companies are still the exception rather than the norm.

Energy market operator's message on baseload generation is blunt: it's struggling to compete and not well suited to the changes taking place. It's time to modernise.

Australia's wind and solar energy resources should put on a bit of a show on same day as Coalition declares its attachment to coal.

Clean Energy Finance Corp backs Macquarie Leasing program offering discounted finance for electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and other low-carbon investments, including rooftop solar and battery storage.

With an estimated 3000 deaths pa and many illnesses in Australia due to heart and lung disease from air pollution The Prime Minister’s proposal to keep open heavily polluting Liddell as the solution to his government’s failures in energy policy must be condemned.

Nissan's “completely reinvented” LEAF, with more than double the range for under $US30,000, puts it toe to toe with Tesla Model 3.

The kindest thing to say about Turnbull's absurd proposal to extend the life of the country's oldest coal generator is that he is playing politics. There is no other reason to ask AGL to stick a bandaid on an increasingly unreliable coal generator on basis that it will lead to increased security and lower prices.

Energy rule-maker says it supports change to 5 minute settlement period, but wants it introduced gradually and not before July, 2021.

Coalition wants AGL to keep 46-year old Liddell coal generator open another five years, despite AEMO saying there is no threat to security standards and best way to minimise is to have more renewables.

AEMO says the biggest threat to Australia's electricity supply is hotter temperatures, failure of large fossil fuel plants, and delays in investment in new wind and solar. Smart solutions such as demand management and storage will mean no need for new coal generators.