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Victorian government to shift solar feed-in tariffs to time-of-use pricing, in move to better reflect the value of the state’s rooftop solar generation, and their environmental benefits.

IEA report says global capacity for solar thermal could more than treble in next five years, with focus on China, Chile, Morocco and South Africa.

The Victorian Parliament is currently running an inquiry into community energy projects to find out what the benefits are and how to implement best practice policies that will see community energy grow across the state.

IEA points to wind and solar PV’s central role as increasingly "affordable solutions" in the fight against climate change and air pollution.

Report warns Australia's vastly underestimated CSG emissions – potentially equal to entire transport sector – would make Paris targets impossible to meet.

Germany’s power grid outage averaged 12.7 minutes last year, 41% less than in 2006, even though renewables have grown to account for as much as a third of power generation in the country.

IEA says installed capacity of renewables has now overtaken coal, and sees no issues with high penetration of wind and solar with right policies.

Carnegie Wave takes full ownership of Energy Made Clean, saying South Australia blackout underlines case for renewable based micro-grids.

IEA says strong policy underpins lift in global outlook for renewable energy, but in Australia, lingering policy uncertainty makes it unsure about large scale investment.

New report says coal is no solution to poverty, but Malcolm Turnbull is using the fossil fuel industry slogan to try to curb environmental groups and to shore up his increasingly shaky leadership.

As solar module prices crash, Deutsche Bank report suggests some of China's Big Six PV makers could struggle to survive.

US liquid metal battery storage start-up in talks to set up Australian R&D team, and possibly a manufacturing hub too.

The debate around renewable energy is becoming mainstream as Australians grapple with issues such as large-scale power outages and the rising cost of domestic power.

The multi-trillion-dollar ‘big crash’ could start as soon as 2023, Bloomberg warns, and ratings agency Fitch agrees it could happen sooner than anyone expected.

Target has reached 147.5 MW of solar capacity, installing 69 MW in the first nine months of 2016 alone.

An innovative high tech South Australian firm will use $50,000 in State Government funding to develop ground breaking technology.

Gas prices are still way head of last year, while Genex underlines economics of its big solar project.

Dyesol will work with the CSIRO to continue their development of perovskite solar technology.

The sale of Ausgrid has been hailed in many quarters, but consumers have little to celebrate. The price locks in "gold plating" and may lead to higher fixed charges as more consumers turn to solar and storage and the networks look to protect their revenue streams.

A software platform that mines data and uses machine learning to boost household energy efficiency has taken out top honours at Energy Hack 2016 – a two-day energy and technology brainstorm held in Melbourne over the weekend.