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China's State Grid envisages a world energy market powered 80% by wind and solar. Does this help explain why its bid for Ausgrid was rejected?

Alan Finkel to lead a review of Australia's electricity market, but states hold to individual renewable targets after Coalition failed to offer a post 2020 target. Battery storage a major focus.

Sundrop Farms' world-leading greenhouse project, using solar thermal electricity, heat and desalinated seawater to grow tomatoes in the SA desert, is in full operation.

Two Australian innovators – Wattwatchers and Independent Products – named as finalists in Australian Technology Comp.

Demand on NEM stayed flat in September, with a slight rise in coal generation and electricity emissions. Wind, meanwhile, reached its highest ever generation level, both in absolute terms and as a share of total NEM generation.

As we work through challenges in the aftermath of SA's electricity blackout, let's make sure our responses enhance rather than truncate our opportunities.

Critics of renewables don't understand that a coal-fired power station and even extra link through NSW may not have avoided the SA blackout.

The big boom in big solar, falling costs, the convergence of battery storage providers, and the politics of renewables were the dominant themes of All Energy 2016.

AGL says wind farms not to blame for South Australia blackout, saying loss of generation not the cause of system shutting down.

Podcast: ITK's David Leitch interviews Ausnet's Alistair Parker about mini grids and battery storage and other stuff.

Surprisingly small amounts of battery storage – located in Adelaide households – might just have helped avoid the blackout in South Australia.

Trustpower's faith in Australian renewables shaken again, as NZ utility delays demerger plans in wake of SA power system failure.

While the physical storm has passed, we're yet to emerge from the political tempest that’s followed.

The blame for SA blackout is focused on wind, but most gas capacity was unused, off-line or unusable during the blackout. And why the secrecy over which generators failed to deliver critical re-start procedures?

New CEFC-funded $100m Commonwealth Bank loan scheme to offer business cheap finance for EVs, LED lights, efficient farm machinery rooftop solar.

The 2.3MW Mt Majura solar farm – the first asset of the Ross Garnaut-chaired $100m IIG Solar Income Fund – has been launched in ACT.

We think battery storage with renewables is economic in states such as Queensland now. So we thought we should tell Josh Frydenberg's advisors.

What might reasonably be made of the AEMO report, at this stage, in understanding what happened?

Continuing to prop up go-nowhere coal projects distracts from efforts to invest in real solutions for the Latrobe Valley.

The media continue to blame renewable energy for South Australia's high wholesale electricity prices, but they would do well to look at how the gas generators exploit the market. And so would the regulators.