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States threaten to go it alone on clean energy target as influential Coalition MP warns "people will die" because of renewable energy, and conservatives harden opposition to wind and solar and demand Australia returns to 19th century technologies.

A community mini grid in Victoria which helped customers to halve their power bills over summer, an innovative approach to project finance, and electricity billing based on mobile phone plans are some of the finalists announced today in the 2017 Clean Energy Council Awards.

Australia’s tidal energy resource will be mapped in unprecedented detail in a new study funded by the Commonwealth Government through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

As Tesla prepares to deliver its potentially game-changing mass market EV, Australia goes into meltdown about the very idea of improving vehicle efficiency.

Renewables must play key role in ramping up the abatement from the electricity sector in Australia.

AEMO chief Audrey Zibelman says politics needs to deal with falling cost of wind, solar and batteries, and customer preference around rooftop solar.

Two of biggest energy companies in the world join forces to dominate global battery storage market, at least at grid scale. Australia is high on their list of targets, with a series of projects that could dwarf Tesla's newly announced project.

Solar PV and pumped hydro project proposed for abandoned gold mine in north Queensland shortlisted for funding by Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.

Federal energy minister says AEMO is best placed to assess what storage levels are needed to stabilise Australia's grid.

Securing Queensland’s future energy supply was the number one agenda item when the newly commissioned Queensland Energy Security Taskforce met for the first time today.

A conservative billionaire is building the country’s largest wind farm. Republican lawmakers want to raise the tax on wind.

Global spending on energy fall by 12% overall in 2016 but clean energy spending is on the up.

AEMO boss Audrey Zibelman cautious about level of storage required for new wind and solar farms, but keen to push forward with energy market reforms. "We don't want to waste this crisis," she said.

Acting prime minister Barnaby Joyce begins construction of 20MW White Rock solar farm, as first turbines from neighbouring 175MW wind farm starts production.

Fossil fuels once had little to fear from renewable energy, but that’s no longer the case.

Erdoğan says other G20 countries have a “problem” with Paris and “are not renewing their full support.”

It is amazing how much is happening, even in Australia. There may yet be hope for Australia to become a low-carbon, successful 21st century economy!

South Australia company develops systems to use anaerobic digestion technology to turn waste plastics into energy and fertiliser.

Queensland becomes latest states to commit to target of zero net emissions by 2050, putting further pressure on federal government’s unambitious climate goals.

The Tesla big battery storage array in South Australia signals a major pivot point for Australia's energy future, but the response of conservatives shows they are not having a bar of it, and their renewable energy target remains 100 per cent ignorance.