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Committee wants review of connection rules after it took more than a week to allow a brand new battery designed to provide back up in midst of blackout to do its job.
Danish developer secures a $A130 million financing package for two new large-scale solar projects in Australia.
WA budget spends big on decarbonisation, including half a billion dollars on a transmission project that will “expand renewable generation and shut down coal.” ...
Regulator signs off on costs for first stage of a transmission upgrade that will link some of South Australia’s best renewable energy resources with growing industrial demand.
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The proposed purchase of Santos by Abu Dhabi National Oil Company could be at odds with Australia’s energy security and economic interests.
There is no time to waste to fix broken nature laws, environment minister Murray Watt says, although early indications suggest climate will not be included.
South-west WA needs large-scale, long-duration energy storage for overnight storage and “wet windless weeks in winter”. The cheapest option is pumped hydro.
Green groups accuse premier of putting fossil interests before constituents with pledge to fast-track approvals and defence of coal as “environmentally sustainable”.
Transmission head outlines South Australia’s path to 100 per cent net variable renewables – a world first – and even suggests SMRs could one day repower wind and solar.
In Australia, the grid connection process is highly confidential. But in New zealand, it is all out in the open, and led to a ...
What would happen if we had cancelled renewables and reverted to coal or gas? Our findings show that electricity prices would be up to 50 pct higher than they are now.