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Owners of biggest wind farm in Western Australia create new company to pursue new projects and expansion opportunities.

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State-owned coal generator throws its weight behind plans to develop a green hydrogen and ammonia production and export facility in North Queensland.

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Work on the first stage of what will be Australia's biggest wind and battery project to begin next year after landing unique finance deal with no long term contracts.

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Fossil fuel giant Woodside beats out green energy evangelist Andrew Forrest's Fortescue for lead role in what has been described as world's biggest green hydrogen project.

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Households participating in Tesla virtual power plant in South Australia get a credit after their batteries play key role as shock absorbers in grid separation.

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Big solar output breaks above 5GW for first time, representing an 18-fold increase in little more than four years.

The post Big solar output bursts through 5GW for first time, 18 times more than in 2018 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia-based Gelion, whose non-flow zinc-bromide energy storage technology was spun out of the University of Sydney, has a new CEO.

The post Gelion names new CEO to take “breakthrough” Aussie battery technology global appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WA state-owned water utility kicks off shift to renewables with deal to buy and build a 150MW wind farm to help power its operations, including desalination.

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First concrete poured to support first of 1,500 steel towers that will make up Australia’s largest electricity transmission project.

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Report identifies risks of modern slavery in clean energy supply chains, and calls for Australia to focus on its own minerals and manufacturing opportunities.

The post Modern slavery: The grim problem facing Australia wind, solar and battery supply chains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A multi-gigawatt tender for wind and solar capacity in Spain flops due to a "secret" price cap that failed to take into account rising costs.

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Queensland says it wants to establish a local wind turbine manufacturing industry to supply its new giga-watt scale projects.

The post Queensland pledges to make its own wind turbines amid boom in giga-scale projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian gravity storage hopeful signs MoU with global engineering firm GHD which it says is already opening doors in Australia and overseas.

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Australia's biggest wind project - already at more than 1GW - will double in size to become one of the biggest onshore wind precincts in the world.

The post Australia’s biggest wind project to double in size to create first 2GW precinct appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Queensland court rules Palmer-owned Galilee Basin coal project should not go ahead, due to impacts on climate, environment and human rights.

The post Court ruling on Clive Palmer’s enormous coal mine heralds new era for climate cases appeared first on RenewEconomy.

These Aussie miners are expanding their global positions upstream and downstream to become essential suppliers of lithium, copper, nickel, rare earths, and graphite.

The post Nine Australian miners poised to ride the green minerals wave appeared first on RenewEconomy.

"S-E-C, S-E-C." Victorians reject fossil fuel dogma and chant name of the public utility that will lead the transition from dirty brown coal to renewables.

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Connection deal signed for part of the first wind stage of what will be the country's biggest wind, solar and battery project.

The post First stage of Australia’s biggest wind, solar and battery project signs grid connection appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Genex boosts the wind component of what will be the country's biggest hybrid project by almost a third, and chooses a turbine maker.

The post Australia’s first wind, solar and hydro storage project just got a lot bigger appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chinese renewables giants Goldwind and China Three Gorges say they have produced the world's largest offshore wind turbine, at 16MW per-unit capacity.

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