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Successful completion of optimised turbine for low wind sites.

Project partners for Europe’s first commercial battery plant to bring innovative black start concept to market maturity/Younicos software manages reliable re-establishment of power grid.

South Australia government chooses solar tower and storage for its power needs, after SoalrReserve wind tender for baseload power with $78/MWh for 150MW plant in Port Augusta. South Australia suggests it is beginning of the end for coal.

Federal treasurer says cheap new coal power a "myth", federal energy minister says it must be considered – even if the market disagrees.

Powerwall, as part of the newly created Tesla Tiny House is hitting the road and making its way around Australia.

Market Forces will lodge a new shareholder resolution against Commonwealth Bank after its climate change position statement released today fell well short of its publicly-made 2 degree commitments.

SEA Electric says $5m CEFC loan will help meet growing demand for technology that converts commercial trucks and vans to electric vehicles.

The president promised a surge of jobs and tax revenue from oil. His policies won’t deliver either one.

To support the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C, Europe will need a CO2-neutral electricity supply by 2045.

First it was the networks, then generators. Now it's the retail arms gouging consumers. A bipartisan review of Victoria's retail electricity market reveals a failed experiment that has delivered the most inflated power bills in Australia.

Construction at the $360 million Mount Emerald Wind Farm near Mareeba reached an important milestone last week when the first of 53 turbine foundations was put in place.

Company to deliver more than 500MW in Australia over the next 12 Months

As long as Australia's energy networks hold on to their inflated asset base, and generators and retailers to their inflated profit margins, consumers will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands with solar and battery storage. But what a hopeless failure in public policy that would be.

A key part of the $386 million Powering North Queensland Plan will commence today.

What's wrong with Australia's biggest wind farm? Victoria's 420MW Macarthur facility was supposed to produce 50% more power than it did last year.

New 50MW Hayman solar farm to go merchant, as US investor BlackRock makes first big move into renewables with two solar farm investments.

Australian company Energy Renaissance says it has "sealed deal" with NT government, locking in Darwin as preferred site for 1GWh lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant.

Here are other climate change-related records that have flown more under the radar, reported in the annual State of the Climate report.

A call to retailers; Information about discounts will be simpler, but you’ll still have to do the legwork to shop around.

You can make a battery out of a lemon, a tomato, an orange or a stack of pennies. And now you can make a battery using spit.