Renewables

The Northern Territory Labor government has outlined a list of key electricity market reforms, in a long-awaited first step towards smoothing the way to a grid it has pledged will be 50 per cent renewable by 2020. The priority reforms,…

The Queensland Labor government has tipped $300,000 into the development of a new large-scale solar and battery storage project in the state’s central west, as part of plans to “turbo-charge” economic growth in the Barcaldine region.…

Walcha Energy is to test market interest in what it describes as the biggest renewable energy and storage project in Australia’s main grid – a proposal to build up to 4.5 gigawatt of wind and solar and up to 10 gigawatt hours of battery…

Australia’s climate debate has transitioned from obsessing over coal to obsessing over gas. It is the talk of the big end of town. Australia’s energy minister Angus Taylor has always been a big fan of gas (and not a big fan of big fans).…

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has begun its push for new national minimum technical standards for distributed energy systems which would apply to all new installations of rooftop solar systems, household and business…

This must have been a set-up. Two middle aged men and three younger women arguing the toss on climate change and energy policies on the ABC’s Q&A program. Two old fossils putting the case for dirty, old, and incumbent technologies.…

Magnis Energy Technologies, one of the companies behind plans to build a lithium-ion battery “giga-factory” in Queensland’s north, is tapping investors for $1.5 million through an ordinary share placement. The ASX-listed company said on…