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Culture wars: It may explain the continued efforts of some network operators to push back against the installation of more rooftop solar.

As national debate over energy supply reaches fever pitch, more attention is now being paid to the role of demand management, a weapon of last resort in Australia.

In a week where energy politics took centre state over market news, the most interesting development was the signing by retailer Flow Energy of a 10-year 50MW PPA with Ararat wind farm in Victoria. We have long seen that there is a need to develop th

AGL debunks Coalition myths on Liddell, saying it is unreliable and costly, and money is best invested in wind, solar, battery storage and other dispatchable generation.

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