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Barnaby Joyce seems to think that switching off a coal plant in 2022 will cause the lights to go out in 2017. Is there any hope that the smart conversations going on behind the scenes will ever be reflected in policy? Don't count on it.

Photon Energy Australia plans to develop 146MW solar farm on outskirts of Bathurst have gone before NSW Department of Planning for approval.

Five companies short-listed to tender for job developing up to 450MW renewable energy hub in Qld coal centre of Gladstone.

Governments, understandably, want to make sure the lights stay on. But now is the time for perspective, not panic.

Coalition has known about bidding practices for years, but it has taken AGL's refusal to play ball on Liddell to prompt it into action.

Despite Finkel, despite our COP 21 obligations, Turnbull does nothing. No electricity policy, no vehicle emission standards, no policy in other areas of the economy. Worst of all, the Liddell negotiations are a gross misuse of the AEMO reports for political purposes.

South Australia abandons plans for energy security target this summer after AEMO intervention on gas plants, and due to lack of competition in market.

The results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) review.

Solar party continues. Latest data show 98MW of rooftop solar PV was installed on Australian homes and businesses in August.

Telstra and Macquarie Group looking to build new solar and wind farms in Australia in further signs of strong corporate investment.

SA govt seeks proposals to build hydrogen production facility and refuelling station, and supply at least six hydrogen cell buses.

Perth blockchain-based renewables trading start-up, Power Ledger, raising tens of millions of dollars in Australia's first "initial coin offering" in energy space.

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?