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Solar PV and pumped hydro project proposed for abandoned gold mine in north Queensland shortlisted for funding by Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility.

Federal energy minister says AEMO is best placed to assess what storage levels are needed to stabilise Australia's grid.

Securing Queensland’s future energy supply was the number one agenda item when the newly commissioned Queensland Energy Security Taskforce met for the first time today.

A conservative billionaire is building the country’s largest wind farm. Republican lawmakers want to raise the tax on wind.

Global spending on energy fall by 12% overall in 2016 but clean energy spending is on the up.

AEMO boss Audrey Zibelman cautious about level of storage required for new wind and solar farms, but keen to push forward with energy market reforms. "We don't want to waste this crisis," she said.

Acting prime minister Barnaby Joyce begins construction of 20MW White Rock solar farm, as first turbines from neighbouring 175MW wind farm starts production.

Fossil fuels once had little to fear from renewable energy, but that’s no longer the case.

Erdoğan says other G20 countries have a “problem” with Paris and “are not renewing their full support.”

It is amazing how much is happening, even in Australia. There may yet be hope for Australia to become a low-carbon, successful 21st century economy!

South Australia company develops systems to use anaerobic digestion technology to turn waste plastics into energy and fertiliser.

Queensland becomes latest states to commit to target of zero net emissions by 2050, putting further pressure on federal government’s unambitious climate goals.

The Tesla big battery storage array in South Australia signals a major pivot point for Australia's energy future, but the response of conservatives shows they are not having a bar of it, and their renewable energy target remains 100 per cent ignorance.

Elon Musk and Tesla's big battery is breaking open the gas cartel. New analysis shows margins for the big utilities will jump $2 billion over next three years because they control market bidding. Battery storage developers like Tesla and Sonnen will change that.

Turnbull reinforces Paris commitment, along with G19, what Tesla's battery storage means, and Victoria energy prices now higher than South Australia.

NSW community-owned power retailer offers solar feed-in tariff of 16c/kWh – a 33% increase on its former FiT, and higher than most competing offers.

RepuTex report affirms renewables a ‘lay down misere’ to out-compete, and replace, traditional fossil-fuel sources in Australia.

Investment in wind and solar energy in Australia jumped 77 per cent, year-on-year, as part of a major global recovery, says BNEF.

The Palaszczuk Government is throwing its support behind a new $60 million Atherton Tableland biorefinery that could generate 130 regional jobs and encourage diverse cropping in the region.

Details of how the Tesla storage array is configured, what it will do and won't do, and what it will cost.