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Demand for household batteries in Australia is on the cusp of an explosion, and new data suggest most people are motivated by personal considerations. 

Once as high as 60 cents per kilowatt hour, solar feed-in tariffs are now as low as just a few cents for some. While 4 million households have rooftop solar, home battery storage systems sit at around 320,000 — but take-up...

Increasing solar power is reshaping the national energy grid, with wholesale prices plummeting during the day but spiking during the night.

The federal government has green-lit a southern NSW project that will form a key part of its plan to connect more renewable energy to the grid.

Household batteries could form part of a plan to make electricity cheaper for low- to middle-income earners before the next election.

Household batteries could form part of a plan to make electricity cheaper for low- to middle-income earners before the next election.

Soaring power bills and plunging incentives for excess solar power are pushing more Australian households into installing home energy storage. Yet these batteries are still very expensive and don't stack up for many.

Soaring power bills and plunging incentives for excess solar power are pushing more Australian households into installing home energy storage. Yet these batteries are still very expensive and don't stack up for many.

A tiny endangered froglet gets in the way of a big solar farm proposal in Victoria's King Valley, with farmers heading to Canberra to campaign against the project.

The state contends in its lawsuit that “Utah is deprived of basic and fundamental sovereign powers as to more than a third of its territory” because federal control prevents the state from taxing those land holdings and...

At least one solar project has been put on hold indefinitely, as some energy investors grow nervous over whether renewables will still be supported under the Coalition's nuclear proposal. 

The Coalition wants nuclear to be the Yin to rooftop solar's Yang. But some experts say the technologies make terrible bedfellows. 

The government knows it can't compete with China to make cheaper solar panels. But it's placing a billion-dollar bet that it can outcompete the manufacturing giant on technology to transform Australia's tiny solar industry. 

The government knows it can't compete with China to make cheaper solar panels. But it's placing a billion-dollar bet that it can outcompete the manufacturing giant on technology to transform Australia's tiny solar industry. 

It passed largely unnoticed, but a NSW energy market meltdown has sparked warnings the energy transition is veering off the road.