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Queensland government-owned Ergon Energy Retail inks another solar PPA, this time for 12 years with FRV's 100MW Liliyvale Solar Farm.

As renewables are used as a political football, investors and energy companies are getting on with the job, with major Asian investor group Equis announcing 200MW of 'battery ready' solar projects in Australia, with plans for another 1000MW in the near future.

E/One sets new standard in safe and environmentally sound production of utility energy storage.

Bill Shorten tells National Press Club Labor will hold its ground on climate change, and create "real jobs" through renewables.

To halt global warming, nations must accelerate renewables deployment and build on gains. More challenging, the investment required to develop new technologies to get to net-zero emissions by 2050.

Despite improvements in the quality of discussion on climate and renewables, the political debate has regressed significantly. Time to fact check some old Furphies.

Shepparton Council calling for expressions of interest for development of a major solar farm in Mooroopna – a possible contender to power Melbourne's tram network.

The electric car has already been killed once. Will Trump kill it again, or jump on for the ride?

With the first shipment of Tesla's Powerwall 2 battery systems set to hit Australian shores, prices of home energy storage continue to tumble, shifting the target market from early adopters, to the "early majority".

Redflow Limited today announces that it has extended the warranty for its 10 kilowatt hour (kWh) ZBM2 and ZCell zinc-bromine flow batteries to 10 years.

In the face of an increasingly divided Turnbull government, Victoria’s Labor government has upped the ante on climate action, pledging to cut state emissions by up to 20 per cent within three years on the road to zero net emissions by 2050.

As 2017 kicks off, spot electricity prices are up 118% in Victoria, despite a sharp reduction in consumption. Plus, a reminder that predicting the future of the electricity market can be very hard.

New BNEF chart forecasts that 13 million barrels of oil per day will be displaced by electric vehicles by the year 2040.

UK-based autonomous transport outfit RDM Group opens Asia Pacific HQ in Adelaide, sees "massive" demand in Australia.

Climate change means Australian cities are facing more heat waves, but not all strategies to keep us cool are created equal.

The Turnbull government's ruling out of a power sector EIS shifts more of the national abatement task over to industry. Any more policy wind-backs will increase the size of that task.

QUT and Japan's Sumitomo open pilot plant for concentrating solar photovoltaic technology in Brisbane's southeast.

Western Australian Labor party - currently leading in the polls ahead of state election - proposes solar plant and biomass facility in Collie, at the heart of the state's coal industry.

So-called "clean coal" being pushed by the Coalition government would be expensive and would not meet long term emission reduction goals.

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists turned the hands of the Doomsday clock to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight, the closest the clock has been to midnight since 1953.