RenewEconomy

AGL Energy taps two govt-owned funds for new renewables investment vehicle it will use to defray costs of developing new projects.

Online renewables mapping tool gets major ARENA-funded upgrade, including addition of new maps highlighting areas of network constraint, best suited to battery storage and demand management.

South Australia says 25% of its energy needs will come from "dispatchable" renewables, such as solar with battery storage and biomass.

SA utility Eskom puts brakes on green power program, question-mark over renewables auctions; Tesla thinks bigger.

ACT govt says submissions to its latest "next generation" renewables tender indicate solar is now competitive with wind energy, suggesting possible major shift in future renewables roll-out.

America's capital now has its 5th most aggressive renewables policy, including plan to install solar PV on 100,000 low-income homes.

The era of solar and wind storage is already here, with Windlab to begin construction of world-leading wind-solar-battery storage complex in north Queensland.

How correlated is the wind output from the various states? And how much will we rely on some form of storage?

Clean Energy Finance Corp marks 3rd year of operation with record investment level, plus 73% year-on-year increase in value of new investment commitments.

Ergon Energy provides guide to households considering using solar and battery storage to quit the grid. It says it doesn't want to scare customers into staying with them, but there are 10 things people should consider.

Solar and battery powered airplane has successfully circumnavigated the globe, flying more than 42,000km in 17 legs using only the power of the sun.

Senvion to supply wind turbines for ARENA-backed wind, solar and storage microgrid that will take remote SA mining town to 70% renewables.

South Australia’s wind farms have been blamed for price spikes, but without them the volatility would be even worse.

Solaray selected for Australian-first project to install 30kW of solar and 43.2kWh of Enphase li-ion battery storage at student housing co-op.

ARENA to provide $10m to Chinese wind giant to build Australia's first hybrid wind-solar farm, although grant is nearly four times more than being asked by projects in large scale solar tender.

Newly completed Coonooer Bridge wind farm achieves capacity factor of nearly 50 per cent in the first full three months since it began operations.

The sharp spike in SA electricity prices this month certainly put the wind up renewable energy critics. But the really scary thing for the fossil fuel industry is that the price spikes don't happen often enough. The media appears to have forgotten they used to occur every second day.

Warmer weather in NSW responsible for most of the decline in volumes and prices in gas and electricity markets in last week.

Adelaide company ZEN Energy wins contract to install more than 500kWh of li-ion battery storage at three government-owned buildings in Adelaide.

An acquisition spree for regulated fossil-fuel assets that are supported by guaranteed payments
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