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Tesla's 14kWh Powerwall 2 batteries open for order in Australia, with installations set to begin in Feb 2017 – just as 100s of thousands of solar households lose their premium FiT.

The huge success of a community-based program encouraging solar and battery storage uptake in Australian homes and businesses suggests the battery storage sector may be in the early stages of mass-market uptake. And that's not all it tells us.

Community solar funding program gathers pace, meeting latest $140,000 target in just two days to install solar on three local businesses.

Vietnam parliament votes to scrap plans to build 4GW of nuclear power, citing declining electricity demand and a doubling in the cost of the two plants to $US18 billion.

The climate isn’t waiting to see what a President Trump does, and neither should the world.

Donald Trump  is now using his new leverage with leaders near and far to benefit his business empire.

A group of 48 countries - including 7 close neighbours of Australia - have pledged to fast-track 100% renewables between 2030 and 2050, and ratchet up emissions reductions by 2020.

Intense warmth in both the air and oceans is driving the mini-meltdown at a time when Arctic sea ice should be rapidly growing.

One of the greatest energy-related disasters in living memory is now set to become a bastion of PV development in Europe.

Trump says from Day 1 he will cancel "job-killing restrictions” on production of unconventional shale energy and "clean coal". Meanwhile, Canada announces coal ban.

Community energy goes to market: Victoria town of Newstead seeks expressions of interest to help refine plan to go 100% renewable energy.

QUT to test Sumitomo CPV solar technology for Qld climate, with view to add redox flow battery storage "in due course."

China and to some extent India are emerging as the principal practitioners of an alternative vision of energy growth.

Baker & McKenzie has assisted SRPC in its initial public offering of shares.

Coalition attacks "latte-sipping" opponents of coal generation while enthusiastically joining in a One Nation sponsored "debate" of climate science in the Senate. And there are still 60 days until Trump becomes president.

Eco Energy World secures 2nd solar farm approval in Queensland; both projects likely to use "merchant" funding model.

Gas price jump pushing up electricity prices in Queensland, while post-Trump spike in bond rates will push up financing costs for renewable energy projects.

The 2016 Marrakech Climate Summit finished strongly, despite the election of President Trump, with a multitude of commitments and actions.

Ten Canberra Institute of Technology (CIT) students will travel to Paris in 2017 to study advances in renewable energy.

Trump's position on clean energy and climate change is little different to that of Tony Abbott's, whose policies have been unchanged by Malcolm Turnbull. But Trump's success has unleashed a new push from the lunar right that will make any progress incredibly hard to achieve.