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As the uptake of renewable energy grows, this region has huge potential to be one of Australia’s clean energy capitals.

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Contractor for Snowy 2.0 and Project EnergyConnect reveals liquidity problems with zero working capital, but denies dispute over costs and delays with Snowy Hydro.

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Spanish group Naturgy to build first of its kind solar and storage project in Australia as it seeks to boost its renewables capacity nearly 10-fold over three years.

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The world's largest completed wind farm, the 1.3GW Hornsea 2 project off the coast of Yorkshire, is now in full operation,

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By embracing renewables, Australia's miners could lead the world in extracting "green minerals" needed to power global decarbonisation.

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Is carbon capture and storage a realistic climate solution, or a subsidy harvesting exercise to extend the life of fossil fuel assets? We review 13 projects to find out.

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Australia's energy market rule maker has bowed to pressure to lift price caps on the wholesale electricity prices in one of the biggest reforms to the market in years.

The post Energy price caps lifted in major market shift to accommodate expensive fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Prices in France and Germany and across Europe have again jumped to unprecedented levels thanks to soaring cost of gas and massive nuclear shortfalls.

The post Gas prices and nuclear outages put European grid at breaking point appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO's latest assessment of reliability generated the predictable "blackout" headlines, but the details tell another story.

The post The strangely invisible energy projects that led to all those “blackout” headlines appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Extreme weather conditions in China starts to have impact on solar and battery supply chains, plus all the local news.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: China drought to hit solar, battery supplies appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's emissions jumped again, and scientists are not happy with new oil exploration acreage and Labor minister's description of CO2 as "bubbles in your soda water."

The post “Bubbles in your soda water:” How Labor justifies LNG boom behind emissions jump appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Researchers unveil new battery made from abundant, low-cost materials that could compete with lithium-ion to support the shift to renewable energy.

The post Is an aluminium-sulphur battery the way out of the lithium quagmire? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO creates controversy over new ISP scenario that looks at "green gas", despite overwhelming push to electrification.

The post Claims of industry lobbying as new ISP to model “green gas” alternative to solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A mild, solar charged Sunday has delivered a new winter minimum operational demand low on Australia's main grid, AEMO says.

The post Solar squeezes out coal to set new record low for demand on national grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Norwegian energy giant leads €30m investment into Dutch large-scale flow battery storage company Elestor, which has eyes on the Australian market.

The post Oil giant Equinor leads €30m investment in long duration flow battery storage company appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There is a multitude of skills shortages that could threaten the low-carbon transition, but one stands out as critical to Australia’s future prosperity.

The post One skill shortage more than any is holding back Australia in the race to net zero appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Oregon based Powin enters Australian storage market with deal to supply first three big battery projects of Akaysha Energy.

The post US battery supplier Powin enters Australia market with 1.7GWh storage deal with Akaysha appeared first on RenewEconomy.

AEMO puts out call for urgent efforts to ramp up construction of wind, solar, storage and new transmission lines to ensure capacity in place before coal exodus.

The post Crunch time for grid: More wind, solar, storage and links urgently needed before coal exodus appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Snowy Hydro's owner and its contractor have both said Snowy 2.0 is delayed, but the market operator has not been told. Turns out it won't make much of a difference.

The post Market operator not told of Snowy 2.0 delays, but it won’t be missed much appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CEC, engineers and unions says urgent action needed to solve jobs shortages that threaten to throttle Australia's green energy transition.

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