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WIRSOL opens office in Sydney and plans to expand its activities.

In what's being called a "breakthrough moment", AEMO and ARENA team up to provide 100MW demand response capacity to meet next summer's critical peaks. The program will focus on technologies like solar and storage in a way previously ignored by policy makers.

France's new energy minister says nuclear industry business model belongs to the past. His appointment expected to hasten transition away towards renewables.

Queensland enjoys favourable sunshine hours that support both domestic and large-scale solar assets - but what about wind?

Most of the gas that is ‘cheap’ to extract has been or is being extracted, so ensuring more supply won't bring the price of gas down.

The Federal Coalition's refusal to tackle climate change means we need to see more political leadership from state governments such as Victoria. 

Greenough River, the first large-scale solar farm to be built in Australia, is going ahead with plans to quadruple in size.

Sydney's CBD has huge untapped rooftop solar potential that could save businesses and homes $70m a year on power costs, according to new study that has lessons for all Australia's capital cities.

It’s time to get serious about climate policy, and set Australia up to make the most of the zero carbon transition that is undoubtedly underway.

Are Australia's coal and gas generators able to power Australia through next summer's heatwaves? The evidence of last summer suggests they cannot be relied upon, with a new report showing how coal plants melted in the Queensland heat on a day of record demand.

Kangaroo Island loses first-of-kind protest against network decision, but regulator flags changes to favour decentralised options.

Thirty-two of the world’s largest wind turbines are up and generating power in new offshore wind project off the UK coast.

Push to unlock more of Australia’s unconventional gas resources and build massive pipelines has been labelled a “false solution” to a non-existent problem.

SolarCity’s co-founder and former CEO Lyndon Rive is leaving the company that he helped start to his cousin Elon Musk.

Work on regional plans for 100 per cent renewable energy highlight importance of storage to soak up daytime supply, and the need to reduce night-time loads and shift them to the day.

Those who advocate for the status quo because of the inertia provided by synchronous generators should be aware that these technologies are far from perfect.

Battery storage is set to jump-start the clean energy transition while at the same time disrupting the traditional utility business model.

It is difficult to overstate just how profound the impacts of wide-scale, low-cost energy storage will be on the utility sector.

Rooftop solar likely saved nearly $1 billion in electricity costs during the February heatwave in NSW, as well as helping to keep the lights on. But solar households and businesses got little reward for their contribution.

ANU researchers develop butterfly wing-inspired nano-technology that could improve the efficiency of solar cells.