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EPA unveils its carbon crackdown. Coal generators say it is all too much, and environmentalists say it is not nearly enough.

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Italian energy group says it has secured the "very first" approval for a solar farm and battery storage project to be connected at the same point in Australia.

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Administrators say Sun Cable to be put up for sale before the end of month, preparing for bidding war between Australia's two richest men.

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Queensland government steps in to give priority to the wind component of Kidston clean energy hub, which will be the first to combine wind, solar and pumped hydro.

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AEMO dumps one weather forecaster but is still not happy with the results from its new panel. The problem is worst at the country's biggest retail load centre.

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Federal Labor's plans to install 400 community batteries is a good idea. But not if they end up being handed to monopoly networks.

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By 2030, private premises and microgrids will supply all demand in the middle of the day. Networks should embrace it, and not seek to curtail it.

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Landholders get new advice on how to negotiate deals with renewable energy and storage developers, including the thorny issue of "blade trespass."

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NSW to force thermal coal mines to reserve output for coal generators as BHP reveals its recent coal price is four times that of new price cap.

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Singapore-based Intercontinental Energy brings in another Big Oil major to take lead on one of its mega green hydrogen projects.

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Report suggests dropping fossil fuels and nuclear and going 100 pct renewables and storage would save the UK £120 billion by 2050.

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Report finds that dirty panels are having a heavy impact on the output of solar PV installations.

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AGL names a new CEO to lead switch from fossil fuels to renewables and appoints contractors to demolish the Liddell coal generator.

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The Australian government has named a former boss of NZ utility Contact Energy and long time executive at Origin Energy to lead its crisis-hit Snowy Hydro.

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The fossil-fuel induced energy crisis of 2022 has sparked the biggest ever jump in new construction starts for wind, solar and storage projects.

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Some solar farms are losing half of their output due to grid congestion, as renewable cop the brunt of curtailment and markets fail to provide correct signals to storage.

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CEO of one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers believes that turbines are big enough and that the main challenge is to increase output.

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US-based developer enters Australian market with eyes on wind, solar and storage projects.

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Origin bidders ask for another week to crunch numbers of $18.4 billion offer amid gas price cap, accusations of gas industry bullying, and regulatory warnings.

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Carbon market participants have discovered what the federal government's efforts to fight climate change will mean for them.

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