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Shorten says transition to renewables key to cheap and reliable energy, new industries, and the future of the reef. But he's going to have to work hard to make this a major issue in what could be an election year, and he needs to be clear about Adani.

Another week, another coal unit failure, this time at AGL's Liddell plant – you know, the one the Turnbull government wants kept open to boost grid reliability.

Electric vehicle drivers can now tap free, green, EV fast charging stations from Coolangatta to Cairns, and Brisbane to Toowoomba, as govt completes first phase of "world's largest" EV super highway.

See no problems, hear no problems, do very little. We read the AEMC's Reliability review in the hope of finding some interesting ideas. We didn't.

China has unveiled some details of its much-anticipated emissions trading scheme, confirming its move to a national carbon market after several years of regional pilots projects.

Photon and Canadian's plans for 1.14GW of large scale solar in NSW suggest that the post-RET investment cliff predicted by some may not occur just yet.

Lismore opens country’s biggest solar farm, and flags five fold increase in size and may add battery storage. The unique community funding model forms a key part of city’s push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2023.

Reaction to Victoria outages emphasise two points: One is that despite spending tens of billions, and inflating everyone's power bills, networks are still the biggest cause of blackouts. And two, the tolerance of such outages is close to zero.

Tens of thousands of Victorians were left without power over the long weekend as the distribution network struggled with blistering temperatures, reigniting fears about the stability of our energy system.

The Tesla big battery now has a widget to show its ground-breaking activities - rapid charge and discharge - on Australian energy market.

Report warns Australia must act quickly to take advantage of its leading position in the global lithium resources market, or risk missing out on what could be a $2 trillion value supply chain.

Security-of supply justifications are seen in Spain as just political schemes to support the status quo. Hello Australia.

Remember the predictions that the solar market would consolidate from 4000 businesses to four or forty major solar companies serving the Australian market? The opposite happened.

The Climate Council’s Cities Power Partnership, Australia’s fastest-growing national climate program for local government, today welcomed 35 new councils to the fight against climate change.

JinkoSolar today announced that it participated in an exclusive interview with CNN as part of the network’s Marketplace: Middle East program. which focuses on business developments in the Middle East reason.

Annual issuance of green bonds not only passed $100bn in 2017, it sailed right past it, says BNEF, driven by 67% yoy growth.

Victoria's blackouts on Sunday had nothing to do with any crisis of energy supply – coal, renewable or otherwise. But why let the truth get in the way of a good smear campaign?

Tender by major US utility puts the cost of wind plus battery storage and solar plus battery storage below the cost of existing coal plants. It indicates that the cost of large-scale battery storage have fallen by more than half in the past year.

Queensland's Fraser Coast Council has approved plans by REST to develop the 120MW Munna Creek solar farm.

Tesla big battery highlights opportunities for utility scale batteries, and more wind and solar farms are looking hard at the technology.