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Clean Energy Finance Corporation backs three more big solar projects in Queensland and Victoria, as ERM finally unveils its first major renewable off take deal.

South Australia to unveil new energy policy on Tuesday, amid speculation it may support two major battery storage projects.

New report highlights measure taken to protect NSW grid from potential failure of Queensland's most modern coal plant. South Australia may well wonder: why not us?

With any luck, the series of weekend Tweets between tech billionaires Elon Musk and Australian Mike Cannon-brookes will be the wake up call needed to shake Australia's politicians, regulators and media from their delusion that fossil fuels are the only answer to Australia's so-called energy crisis.

The biggest problem facing Australia's National Electricity Market is that it has no management team. But someone has to accept responsibility for the mess.

Perovskite PV technology demonstrated on industrially-applicable roll-to-roll processes

Another 300 solar powered, energy efficient low-income homes to be built in Sydney, backed by $130m from Clean Energy Finance Corporation.

Wind and solar offer the cheapest form of abatement and the falling cost of storage means its beating out gas. Welcome to the new NEM.

Summer of record heat waves and unplanned electricity outages pushes rooftop solar installations up nearly 50% on this time last year.

If all customers with premier solar feed in tariff used its residual value to purchase a battery storage system, Australia could have a 960MW virtual power plant, at no additional cost to customers.

New EPA Pruitt won’t listen to scientists, but he promises he’s listening to industry.

Kangaroo Island lodges uprecedented challenge to state's main network operator over cable decision that could close an opportunity to export renewable energy.

SolarReserve, which hopes to build 110MW solar tower and storage facility in Port Augusta, unveils plans for a facility four-times that size in Chile.

Bill Gates-backed saltwater battery storage maker Aquion Energy bowed to the inevitable and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware.

The fossil fuel industry is locking in behind Labor on an EIS because it could save them $30 billion. But consumers won’t benefit at all, and renewable focused schemes are being junked on the basis of rubbish modeling.

New data suggests SA's September blackout rekindled the state's love affair with rooftop solar, spurring a more than 17% uptick in installations from October to December 2016.

One company’s mission to make every surface soak up the sun - rom car parks, to food cars, jackets and army tents.

Want to see energy progress? Head west to California.

Tesla's Lyndon Rive says company's Powerpacks could fix SA power crisis in just over 100 days. Confirms Tesla "in talks" with Australian utilities.