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Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to work with Abel Energy to build a world-scale green hydrogen and methanol production plant in Tasmania.

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Neoen to add big battery to what is now the country's biggest operating solar farm in Queensland.

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Rapidly emerging TagEnergy announces new renewables hub in north Queensland after ARENA battery funding win.

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Australia's offshore wind industry launched, with formal declaration of first development zone and a leg-up to the 2.2GW Star of the South project.

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The first big battery in NSW is now officially fully operational. It will be joined by dozens more in coming years.

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South Australia reaches 104.1 per cent wind and solar over state demand for the last seven days.

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Australia to fund eight big battery projects with advanced "grid forming" inverters that will help close coal and narrow the gap to 100 pct renewables

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GE's Haliade-X wind turbine receives full type certificate for operations up to 14.7 MW from DNV GL, the world’s largest independent certification body.

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The generation of electricity by burning native forest wood waste will no longer be counted as renewable in Australia, as Labor makes good on Climate Bill negotiation promise.

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Firmed renewable energy from a mix of solar and wind remains by far the cheapest source of new-build electricity generation in Australia, despite a jump in costs across all technologies due to global inflationary pressures. This is the conclusion of the draft 2022-23 GenCost report from CSIRO, the latest annual update from the national science […]

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Tesla has taken its first steps towards becoming a major player in energy retailing, with the launch of an electricity plan to Powerwall customers.

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AEMO reveals four new scenarios for its next big planning document, with consumer owned rooftop PV and EVs, and green hydrogen the big swing factors.

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South Australia seeks partners for green hydrogen power plant for Whyalla, which it hopes will be as transformational as the original Tesla big battery.

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Danish developer takes majority stake in 3.6GW solar hydrogen and "power-to-X" project near Gladstone in Queensland.

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New Zealand infrastructure investor and Australia's politicians' super fund establish a new wind, solar and storage developer.

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Gas price cap passes parliament, electricity futures prices plunge and Greens hail "the end of gas" with a package designed to take the fossil fuel out of homes.

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AEMO’s head of system design, Merryn York, on the engineering roadmap to 100 per cent renewables. Plus: The gas price cap debate.

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Equinor to collaborate on the offshore wind plans of Australian renewables company Nexsphere to build a 1GW project 30km off the coast of north-east Tasmania.

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New report reveals Russia's invasion of Ukraine has delivered Australia's coal exporters windfall profits of up to $45 billion, with gas exporters reaping almost as much.

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Major new ANU report uses “heat maps” to identify which sites across Australia are – and are not – suitable for large-scale wind and solar projects.

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