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Repower Port Augusta says the final Australian Electricity Market Operator report into South Australia’s statewide blackout in September highlights the need for solar thermal with storage to be built in Port Augusta.

Final report by AEMO into S.A. blackout underlines need for system overhaul, with market operator saying new, faster technologies like battery storage, demand management, wind and solar need to be adopted, rather than relying on traditional thermal generators.

The first 3kW array had to pretend to be a coal-fired power station to get connected. But it didn’t destroy the grid, as the utilities feared.

Australia is closing one of the world's dirtiest coal power plants. Witness Hazelwood's emissions disappear before your eyes.

As more wind and solar is introduced into the grid, more storage will be needed. SolarReserve has plans for a facility of up to 2GW in Nevada.

Production of the luxury BIPV product will not begin until “mid-2017”, and a waiting list has appeared on the Tesla site.

Australia’s leading technology accelerator program opens for applications for the seventh year.

WA utility plans to eliminate $250 million subsidy - which amounts to $5,000 a year for each customer - with a focus on solar, battery storage and micro-grids to dramatically reduce the need for fossil fuels such as gas and diesel.

The producer squeeze on futures prices moved from Y18 to FY19 with 5% rises seen over the week in NSW and Victoria. All eyes are on the immediate impact as Hazelwood winds down.

Reposit Power has today acknowledged the Federal Government review into retail electricity prices, but said that many Australians have already installed solar battery storage systems to beat the rising prices.

Accompanying tweet of video of Model 3 release candidate going down a street, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reveals several things about Model 3 & Model Y.

SAPN says new algorithms needed to ensure that residential battery storage can address large swings in demand, not make them worse.

Hazelwood begins its winding down, with Wednesday to be the last day of generation of the last of the pre-1970 coal fired power stations.

First Solar's 48.5MW Manildra Solar Farm in regional NSW becomes latest from ARENA's large-scale solar round to reach financial close.

Murdoch media tries to outdo Fairfax and ABC with even more scary forecasts of energy shortages, despite AEMO saying it is predicting no such thing.

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The town of Coober Pedy is in uproar. What should have been a positive plan to shift to a renewable-focused mini-grid based around wind and solar and storage is causing outrage in the community, and embarrassment to the developer, and the federal agency that backed it.

Because of the lack of competition that could have been introduced if RET policy was held steady, fossil fuel generators can use their market power to artificially inflate prices, and somehow convince media and politicians that it is all the fault of wind and solar.

Queensland says proposal to lower voltage standards will allow networks to more easily accommodate rooftop solar and other technologies.

Coalition publishes climate policy discussion paper amid CCA resignations, claims of right-wing, anti-science bias.