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Sun Cable may built a multi-billion dollar facility in Tasmania to make high voltage sub-sea cables for its ambitious renewable energy export plans.

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ARENA receives applications request for $1.3 billion of community battery proposals, more than 10 times the $120 million available under its funding program.

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Just over half of Europe's single family homes could technically be fully energy self-sufficient with a combination of solar energy and storage systems.

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Nationwide rooftop solar installations jumped 11 per cent in October, putting Australia on track to beat the 2021 record for small-scale PV growth.

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Andrew Forrest’s Squadron Energy now has major wind energy projects under development in all three of mainland Australia's east-coast states.

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Short answer: no. Should we lift the ban? It would have no practical effect on electricity markets, but the political fallout could be tragic for Australia.

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October delivers yet another record contribution to the generation mix from large-scale wind and solar and pushes gas to its lowest share in decades.

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Genex Power hails "extremely significant" milestone as it moves one step closer to starting fit-out works for its pumped hydro power station in Queensland.

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South Australia sets stunning new record of 86.7 per cent wind and solar over month of October, while Australia's main grid reaches new peak of 45.1 per cent renewables over the month.

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Waratah Super Battery will involve the biggest single connection to Australia's main grid, and is being built on top of an old coal stockpile next to a shuttered coal plant.

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Ark breaks ground on the first phase of its renewable hydrogen hub in Townsville, which will feature a 1MW electrolyser powered by solar.

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Drone-based technique can analyse every single panel on a solar farm, rooting out faulty or damaged modules which look fine on the surface.

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Advances in quantum mechanics could lead to breakthroughs in solar, battery and grid management technology.

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Regulator kicks the gas can down the road as it decides to not make any changes to the price mechanisms for gas networks facing oblivion in the switch to electric.

The post “The future doesn’t involve you,” and other things the AER won’t tell dying gas networks appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Tiwi traditional owner has won an injunction to prevent Santos from commencing construction work for a pipeline for its controversial Barossa offshore gas project.

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Katherine McConnell explains how one company has financed and installed over 100,000 household solar installations, and now provides a one-stop-shop for electrification.

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LONGI and Solar Training Centre ink a landmark MOU, marking a significant leap forward in bolstering the Australian solar installer market.

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New scientific study finds that if humanity wants a 50-50 chance of limiting global warming to 1.5°C, we can only emit another 250 gigatonnes of CO2.

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ASX-listed battery materials upstart finalises a $US100 million US government grant, just weeks after securing funds from the Canadian government.

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Critical minerals, battery manufacturing, renewable hydrogen, and green metals have been flagged as net zero industry priorities by the federal treasurer.

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