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Victoria hydroponics vegetable producer turns to 100% renewable strategy for country's biggest glass-house after nearly abandoning project due to gas prices. A 196MW wind farm and 20MW of battery storage will be built - separate to the Victoria battery storage tender.

CEFC makes first investment in mining operation, as Australia seeks to grab lion's share of lithium supply to the global battery storage market.

Queensland government edict pushes wholesale prices down; solar costs fall again; Infigen's lousy wind quarter; aspect of limited merits review decision.

Results for South Australia's battery storage tender expected in next week, as state government delays introduction of energy security target and may drop it altogether. Meanwhile, Victoria reports "strong" response for its battery storage tender.

Reality is boring: new technology gets cheap, simple and, increasingly, fit for purpose. There’s nothing magical, mystical or fantastical about this.

Australia is the only country that you could throw a wall around and still have all the materials you need – cobalt and graphite and lithium – for battery storage.

Let's forget about coal: Finkel's Clean Energy Target should be designed to encourage a good mix of zero emissions dispatchable solutions including solar thermal and biomass.

Solar power accounts for 2.2 per cent of total generation in the US in April, a jump of 63% over the previous year.

Pollinate Energy is celebrating its most significant milestone to date: having reached 100,000 of India’s most vulnerable people.

A 200MW solar fram near Balranald in western NSW will be largest, and one of 27 large scale solar projects planned or under construction in the state.

On the roof of a waste incinerator outside Zurich, the Swiss firm Climeworks has built world’s first commercial plant to suck CO2 directly from the air.

Regulator further lifts benchmark for NSW solar tariffs - well above AGL's proposed tariff - but rejects notion rooftop solar and storage have network benefits.

The South Australian Government is continuing to support the transition to a low- carbon economy through a $9 million commitment to begin hydrogen roadmap.

Energy Renaissance, backed by engineering group UGL, plans a gigawatt-scale battery storage factory in Darwin, that it says will begin production in late 2018.

Households and businesses in NSW will get paid for reducing loads during critical peaks, as governments and institutions decide to circumvent objections by fossil fuel lobby with smarter, cleaner and cheaper alternatives.

Trump rants against wind energy, warning of lights going out and "birds falling to the ground".

$53.8 million will be invested for a series of major projects at Stanwell Power Station west of Rockhampton, over the next year.

Trump's planned "solar wall" might take a century to generate enough power to pay for itself, but the fact that Trump said the word "solar" is lighting a fire under solar stocks.

We don't need as much inertia in the power system as many think, and with a few simple changes we won’t need to mandate inertia limits either. Here's why.

Vector wins tender with LG Chem battery storage, which grid operator says will allow significant increase in solar capacity in Alice Springs and a payback in 4 years.