A community benefits find will share $50 million across a series of “legacy projects” for communities located along the route of the planned #CopperString transmission link.

In a record six months of investment, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation helped break Australia's wind investment drought and ushered Marinus Link through to financial close. reneweconomy.com.au/marinus-link...

Brisbane-based battery innovator gets its first chunk of #Arena funding towards building a gigawatt-scale factory to produce its lithium-sulfur #battery cells.

A last-minute submission gives an unexpected take on debate over a proposal to raise fixed electricity #network costs, asking ‘what if the AEMC is… kinda right?’”

A day after announced full commercial operation of its Supernode battery in Brisbane, #Quinbrook has submitted plans for Supernode North to the #EPBC.

Spanish #police have made arrests after man died from electrocution last year after breaking into a wind #turbine.

What if the clean #energy transition is led not by utilities, but by the data and AI industry? Luis F. Gonzalez says #AI doesn’t just use electricity – it reshapes who builds and controls the #grid.

Plans to develop a 200MW, two-hour battery in #NSW have been sent to the Independent Planning Commission after attracting 61 objections, mostly from people living hundreds of kilometres away.

Expensive #gas is not viable for Whyalla Steelworks, in the interim or the long-term. If we’re going to do massive subsidies, let’s at least back the best solution for a decarbonising world.

Consultation on five draft onshore #renewable energy zones has been extended by three weeks in response to “devastating impact” of Summer #bushfires.

#Alcoa has been given the green light to clear more Australian forest after being fined for stripping land for #bauxite mining without the right approvals.

#Solar is cheap and easy to build for #Fortescue, and working in the #Pilbara gives the company more leeway to try some things not allowed elsewhere in Australia.

First phase of integrated #solar and #battery project is synchronised and energised, on the way to becoming the world’s largest project of its kind.

Queensland coal generator celebrates the commercial start of its first big battery, which will provide essential firming capacity and reliability “within fractions of a second.”

A #solar and #battery project proposed for the NSW Hunter region has been dropped by the developer, in what has been described as a “really welcome outcome” for local communities.

Our off-grid luxury lodge combines a whole of system approach with renewables and storage, and a backup genset triggered only by indiscrete #EV charging.

BMW's iX3 Neue Klasse sets a new benchmark in German EVs – and should end range anxiety for Australians still sitting on the fence about going electric.

The defeat of a climate suit against #Santos has disappointed activists but opened the public’s eyes to how the resources giant developed its net-zero targets.

#NSW to run an additional tender for firmed generation capacity to plug forecast gaps in supply left by retiring #coal plants and “extended lulls” in solar and wind.

#BHP expects energy transitioning industries to supercharge its copper business – just don’t expect any new detail on what it is doing to decarbonise.

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Join Rachel Williamson as she explores Fortescue's push to decarbonise heavy haul locomotives and the hard realities that led to the cancellation of the Infinity Train.

Melbourne based renewables developer begins community engagement for a proposed solar farm and battery energy storage system in NSW Southern Tablelands.

#Transgrid is asking consumers to foot the bill for almost all of the $1.5 billion cost blowout from building the interconnector between South Australia and NSW.

OptiGrid founder and CEO Sahand Karimi on the ever evolving art of battery optimisation and the huge untapped value of the sub-5 MW “community” storage market. Plus news of the week.

The first stage of one of the biggest #batteries under development in #Australia has started commercial operations, on track to becoming a 780 megawatt, more than 3 gigawatt-hour behemoth.

#CSEnergy is using its coal plant byproducts quite literally to build a bridge between its traditional fossil generation business and its renewable #energy future.

A consortium of companies led by Tilt Renewables wants #AEMO to factor in a massive, up to 10 GW inland #REZ to its 2026 blueprint for the national grid.

The reversal of Obama’s endangerment finding represents a significant escalation in #Trump’s relentless fight against green energy and #climate action.

Hydro Tasmania has successfully delivered replacement turbine blades to one of Australia’s oldest continuously working #wind farms.

An ex-Labor strategist turned pollster says there are votes in taxing Australia’s biggest polluters through reframing the debate and evolving demographics.

New Zealand gentailer woos investors from home and across the ditch to help fund its ambitious renewable energy development plans.

Solar and battery project proposed for central northern Victoria gets #EPBC all-clear just four months after joining the queue.

Nothing says election year like a big new push for division around renewables. In Victoria, the opposition #Coalition and #OneNation are getting busy courting votes.

Iron ore giant Fortescue has just four years left to meet its real zero emissions by 2030 target, a mammoth task that will require it to fundamentally change how it operates. So can it be done?

A new white paper examines how Australia can ensure electricity system security in the transition from baseload generators and spinning machines to a grid dominated by inverter-based resources.

A large-scale #solar and #battery project seeking federal environmental approval proposes to use an innovative panel mounting system that will slash its physical and ecological footprint.

Australia’s solar waste investigation raises an interesting question of consistency. Where is the inquiry into mandatory 100% recycling of fossil fuel waste streams?

Great podcast on energy and politics feat Malcolm Turnbull very interesting @reneweconomy.com.au

Really excited to see how Peak scales their sodium batteries, could also be huge for multi family developments starting to move mostly off grid!

Installing the North Star battery was simpler and cheaper and than most other projects in the mining company’s job list to reach real zero by 2030. reneweconomy.com.au/copy-and-pas...

Origin Energy says big batteries are doing the heavy lifting for its aging fossil fuel plants, and cutting the costs of gas, but won’t rule out new gas peakers reneweconomy.com.au/origin-says-...

The second stage of what is already Australia’s biggest #wind project has started sending power to the grid and soon will be the nation’s first to reach gigawatt scale reneweconomy.com.au/second-stage...

US companies sign deal to build giant sodium batteries for US data centres, and also targeting Australia and Japan reneweconomy.com.au/us-companies...

AGL to create a new funding vehicle, using other people’s money, to develop its major #wind projects, including auction winners in NSW and the CIS reneweconomy.com.au/agl-eyes-opt...

Head of CIS program says data centres could come to the rescue of #wind projects struggling to land long term contracts, particularly as wholesale prices fall reneweconomy.com.au/cis-boss-say...

Even the booming home battery market could not escape the January doldrums, with the summer break delivering a small decline in monthly installs for the first time since July 2025.

Malcolm Turnbull says more “simpler” pumped hydro needed as solar outpaces wind, and insists that Snowy 2.0 will deliver value despite delays and cost blowouts.

The first solar-battery #hybrid has begun sending power into Australia’s main #grid in the evening. Dozens of bigger projects are will follow, changing the game for old fossils.