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The Federal Government is facing an uphill battle to convince some states to back the National Energy Guarantee, with some leaders saying the plan's targets are too low to drive any new investment in renewable energy.

Whyalla steelworks boss Sanjeev Gupta believes renewables present a cheaper option for electricity generation in Australia than nuclear power, and is pushing ahead with alternative energy plans.

The Crystal Brook facility in South Australia's Mid North will generate 20,000kg of hydrogen daily.

Regional South Australian cities have seen several clean energy projects announced over the past year and now a local mayor wants to take the state's thirst for renewables a step further.

Flinders Island is moving to renewable energies

NSW is now using hydro, solar, wind and bioenergy to make up almost 20 per cent of its electricity mix for the first time, and even more renewable output is expected in the future with a boom in solar farm projects.

Steel-making baron Sanjeev Gupta and climate change expert Ross Garnaut sound like strange bedfellows. But the pair are behind a plan to run four [?] steel mills across Australia on renewable energy.

Fixing the gas price crisis is the short-term fix to Australia's soaring electricity prices but the long game is greater investment in renewables and energy storage, writes Ian Verrender.

When federal politicians Bob Katter and Anthony "Albo" Albanese get together, sparks fly.

Bob Katter and Anthony Albanese, a pair of "fair-dinkum blokes", are taking their unlikely bromance to the bush to try to change the face of the electricity generation in the north.

The Western Australia Government has backed a continued study and potential pilot to export solar power from the Pilbara to Indonesia.

Recommendations from an energy security taskforce, set up in the wake of Tasmania's 2015 power crisis, will be fully implemented within months, with the State Government acknowledging the need for a more "conservative" approach.

Surplus renewable energy could soon be converted to hydrogen and injected into Australia's gas networks to help decarbonise the nation's gas supply, if a trial in Adelaide proves successful.

If chief scientist Alan Finkel gets his way, battery storage will be central to Australia's energy future. So how does it work, which other countries are doing it and how much of a "thing" will it be here?

Battery storage is predicted to become a major part of Australia's energy grid within the next 20 years. So how does it work, which other countries are doing it and how much of a "thing" will it be here?