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The power sector's rapid transformation has barely started, but implications for incumbents are beginning to be felt and speculated.

ARENA backed NT project commissions first 10 solar, battery storage systems, cutting diesel fuel use by more than a million litres a year.

Sally Perini has four electric cars, a fully electric ride on mower and a suite of electric tools. And for good reason: One two-stroke leaf blower used for one hour can produce as much hydrocarbons as 150 cars over the same time.

It’s been almost 5 years since I swapped from a petrol engined motorcycle to an all electric Zero. Since then I’ve travelled 32,767km at an average cost of 1.5c per km.

Australian investment funds buys second solar farm in Queensland from Germany's BayWa, which plans another 280MW of solar PV.

The Land Court recommendation against expansion of New Acland Coal mine has exposed Queensland's – and Australia's – deeply flawed environmental and health assessment process.

The CET has become another political stick to beat the government with. To be more accurate, it's a stick with which the Coalition beats itself.

Record wind energy generation in Scotland in June helped lift total generation to the equivalent electrical needs of 124% of Scottish households.

AEMC attempts to defend incumbent gen-tailers by saying how delighted customers are with their electricity service and pricing, and blaming renewables as the biggest black cloud on the horizon. They have to be kidding, right?

The Government is working to help Victorians lower their power bills by investing in this improved solar power monitoring technology which enables households to monitor electricity consumption and solar production in real time, as well as monitor and control battery use.

Engie to auction off old coal plant parts in series of online auctions starting in September. Get your bidding fingers ready.

Hawaii and California take major steps towards 100% renewable energy, showing it can be done on both big island grids, and in a major economy. In Hawaii, the local utility is so keen it says it can reach the target 5 years earlier than the mandate.

The highlights of the Clean Energy Summit, the 1200MW wind and solar plan for Windlab, and energy futures in a holding pattern.

Brisbane-based designer and maker of EV fast chargers raises $10m in just 10 days, from just one investor: former coal baron Brian Flannery.

Sunshine Coast becomes first council to complete its own large scale solar farm, and expects it to deliver $22 million in savings over life of plant.

None of the 21 authors of a critique of a major 100 per cent renewable energy scenario for the US even bothered looking at the modelling.

Five years after meeting 40% of U.K.’s electricity supply, new data shows that coal only met 2% of the country’s power needs in last 6 months.

A new chart shows that with nearly two months still left in the melt season, sea ice area is already below what would have been a yearly low in the 1980s.

A Queensland company has helped win a major contract with one of the world’s top dredging companies to find unexploded bombs in the Netherlands.

Moving on from the world's biggest battery in SA, Elon Musk broke the internet week with Tweets about his new, new thing: The Boring Company.