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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.

French newspaper says sources confirm Hazelwood brown coal generator will close in April, if not before.

Battery storage is probably already economic in Australia if the number are done right. But government are receiving out of date advice, and that's making for bad policy.

Adelaide unveils latest zero-carbon strategy, to install 40 electric vehicle charging stations by end 2017 and subsidise installation of private EV charge points.

The U.S. has gone eight years without hearing presidential candidates answer a question on climate change while on the same stage.

Australia's mainstream media fail to understand – and appear to have no interest in asking – that new technologies can make the grid cheaper and more stable, rather than turning to old and expensive alternatives.

More than one million solar hot water systems have been installed in Australia, adding to the more than 1.5 million rooftop PV systems.

The company formerly known for its efforts to generate energy from "hot rock geothermal" will diversify into solar, battery storage, and hybrid renewables.

Carnegie Wave locks in $3.69m debt funding for world first solar, battery and wave integrated microgrid project, as it eyes "huge global opportunity."

Former head of Hazelwood coal generator proposes 300MW PV plant, possibly storage, as part of major renewables push.

The cost of wind and solar power in South Africa has fallen to near half the price of new coal plants, and less than half the price of nuclear.

Conservation SA has installed two ZCell batteries to charge an electric car and to provide energy for emergency lighting and data centre backup for its office.

The market operator seems happy to let the blame for the South Australia blackout fall on wind energy, but questions about its own role are warranted, particularly because it seems to have totally ignored a report prepared a decade ago that envisaged a similar scenario.

Queensland's 50% renewable target is a great idea and achievable, but its current plans will need radical change.