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Conservative media launches attack against chief scientist Alan Finkel for not whole-heartedly embracing fossil fuels as energy debate sinks further into mire.

Wholesale power prices in coal and gas dependent Queensland average $480/MWh over the past week. No wonder everyone wants to build solar farms.

Solar and wind "saved the day" in NSW on Friday, when two big coal units failed to produce and two big gas generators suddenly stopped generating. Rooftop solar also helping Queensland meet record demand.

PM Malcolm Turnbull has installed battery storage at his Point Piper home and upgraded his rooftop solar system.

Climate Change Authority member Clive Hamilton quits over Coalition's "unconscionable" and "perverse" clean coal push.

Pollinate Energy has successfully secured support from Tata Trusts.

Last Wednesday around 90,000 homes and businesses in South Australia were deliberately disconnected from the electricity grid for up to an hour. So why did it actually happen?

It beggars belief that any government could expect such a vast and heavily subsidised power system as Australia’s to improve or even survive in private hands. We now see the consequences of this misguided folly.

New analysis reveals new "clean coal" power plants are barely cleaner than current coal plants. Meanwhile, Coalition's stunt of bringing lump of coal into parliament in middle of crippling heat wave branded as "idiotic" as their energy policy.

International coal markets are at risk as transformation continues, driven by yet more record low prices for solar power, this time in India.

2016 turned out to be record breaking year for solar, in many regards. You'll get all the information you need here, but here are some of the highlights.

Wind energy had a big year in 2016, particularly in the US and Europe  – yet it still faces an unpredictable policy future.

Indigneous Australian artworks have been added to two of the wind towers at Hornsdale wind farm in SA.

As the generation mix changes and the load profiles get peakier, the thinking around demand management must mature.

EU countries should close all of their coal plants by around 2030 if they wants to stick to the Paris Agreement on climate change.

South Australia gas plant finally switched on as NSW faces major threat of outages in heatwave, and power in Queensland also at risk.

Australian owned, CSIRO-developed battery storage technology tested as possible solution for powering remote, rural communities in India.

Korean-owned zinc refiner ups size of proposed Qld solar farm to 116MW, casting shade on claim renewables are a "manufacturing killer".

South Australia threatens to take "decisive action" to regain control of the energy industry. The privately owned generators only have themselves to blame.

AGL says it expects large-scale battery storage will play a critical role in the changing nature of Australia's electricity grid.