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Planning approval given for the Central-West Orana renewable energy zone, the first in Australia to achieve this step.

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The world's biggest solar panel makers now produce vastly more useful energy than Big Oil.

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Ageing gas fired power station to have one of its units converted into a syncon to help accommodate more solar on the Top End grid.

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Environmentalists to protest approval of expansion of Gina Rinehart coal seam gas field in same region that a solar farm was rejected just weeks ago.

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Researchers say they have a possible solution for perovskite solar cell instability that could jettison the technology from lab to market: a new way of designing the cell itself.

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Australia must heed Pacific calls for a more ambitious climate strategy as the region faces an existential threat, a former environmental lawyer turned Greens senator says.

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Squadron Energy says AEMO's plan for the national grid reinforces the need to roll out new solar and wind capacity "at speed" – and the huge risks if we don't.

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The 600 MW wind farm is the first of four large projects planned in partnership with a newly formed Macquarie offshoot.

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A 335 MW wind farm cleared for development by NSW is now waiting on federal environmental approval, after a decision on the project was delayed for a second time.

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Households - and their rooftop solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles - will be driving force of the green energy transition, and will could mean less need for grid scale investments.

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AEMO planning blueprint confirms that renewables and storage the cheapest and smartest way to replace coal, and nuclear would be too slow and costly. But is the rapid transition quick enough?

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A coal-fired power plant explosion described as a "catastrophic missile event" and one of the state's greatest scandals could have been avoided, a report has found.

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Victorian energy minister says the state will be 95 pct renewable by the time Dutton delivers his "fantasy" nuclear projects.

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Finish technology group Wärtsilä has unveiled what it says the world’s first large-scale 100% hydrogen-ready engine power plant.

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AGL signs MoU to explore feasibility of recycling up to half a million solar panels a year at a new facility at its Hunter Energy Hub in New South Wales.

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Bowen says the massive auctions for large scale wind and solar under the Capacity Investment Scheme may come at no cost to taxpayers because of the number of projects competing for a contract.

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CSIRO and Google's moonshot factory say inverter prototypes have the potential to stabilise electricity grids and put more solar, wind and hydro power into networks.

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Peter Dutton says nuclear power plants burn energy. Er, no they don't. Is this why the Coalition nuclear policy makes no sense?

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The Haldon Station site, on land blighted by erosion and pests, will be Lodestone Energy's largest solar project to date.

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Nuclear lobby groups admit that rooftop solar will be a major casualty of the push for "always on" nuclear. Is the public happy to have their PV modules switched off?

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