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Latest SunWiz data shows Australian households are continuing to install bigger systems, with a new all-time high average size reached in September.

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Federal parliament crossbenchers call for clear incentives to electrify rentals and apartments, while energy consumer lobby group calls for blanket gas ban.

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Updated: Octopus continues its rapid build up in Australia with purchase of a gigawatt hour big battery project in Queensland.

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Fortescue joins global heavyweights in big fund-raise for US hydrogen start-up that claims the most powerful and least cost electrolyser systems.

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Australia has a long history of attempts to develop technical standards for smart distributed energy resources. We have no more time to lose.

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NSW steal the prize for best performing solar state in September as negative prices in other states slash output.

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Enel X wins huge demand response contract as W.A. looks to smarter ways to address the growing impact of rooftop solar and the impending closure of coal generators.

The post Massive demand response contract to boost flexibility in world’s most isolated grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Instants of 100 per cent renewables are already being presented on Australia's main grid - nearly two years ahead of expectations, and before the market is ready.

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Spring on the grid demonstrates that if you have enough renewables, the low variable costs will lead to low average prices. The challenge is to get the capacity built.

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WA - host to the world's biggest standalone grid - has ushered in major reforms to its Wholesale Electricity Market to pave the way for more renewables, battery storage and demand management.

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Plibersek approves 600MW solar farm in central Queensland, and uses media release to criticise the Greens for rejecting the CPRS in 2009.

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Rooftop solar smashed more records over the "grand final" long weekend, sending coal output and network demand to new lows as the grid continues to be reshaped.

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For all of the doom-saying, Australia is putting the building blocks in place to get to net zero faster.

The post The road is long and time is short, but Australia’s pace towards net zero is quickening appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewables covered more than half of Germany’s electricity consumption so far this year, and has averaged 50 pct or more for each of the last seven months.

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The EIS for the country's first renewable zone has been lodged, but has already run into opposition from the Greens over compulsory acquisition proposals.

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Sparc Technologies says it will speed up and extend its R&D into sodium ion batteries, as an alternative to lithium-ion, after a second round of positive results.

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Group behind Victoria's first inner-urban community battery turns to public transport to raise awareness of vital role of shared energy storage in shift to renewables.

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New analysis concludes that Australia must expand its export terminal capacity tenfold to have any hope of fulfilling its renewable hydrogen ambitions.

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La Trobe University has announced plans to install what it claims to be the largest "urban solar farm" in Victoria, a 2.9MW PV ground-mounted array and 2.5MW battery

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Competition for new transmission would ensure investment is necessary and not padding out profits of regulated monopolies, or compensating for their shortcomings.

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