The take-up of renewable energy is proving to be a challenge in the Western Murray region.
"It's not the Jetson's, the technology is here now": The Barossa family running their winery and house off an electric car.
The country's biggest free-range meat chicken farm has slashed its power bill after installing one of agriculture's most extensive solar and battery systems.
A three-year battle between farmers and the New South Wales Government has ended with the conditional approval of a 120-megawatt solar farm planned for land 4 kilometres out of the Jindera township.
Ten of Australia's 12 largest egg producers have some form of solar energy powering their farms, with proponents urging a move toward carbon neutrality in an already low-carbon-sourced industry.
Broken Hill, in outback New South Wales, could become home to one of the world's largest mini-grids supplied by renewable energy within three years.
The NSW Government announces a $79 million designation for the region and moves to allay landowners' concerns about potential impacts on farmland.
A wave of renewable energy is set to wash over Western Australia’s farming heartland under new laws.
On a 190-hectare working farm near the NSW city of Orange, Australian modular design company Modscape has completed a new prefab home that takes in dramatic landscape views in all directions...
New technologies will be prioritised in a bid to reduce Australia's greenhouse emissions, the Energy Minister says, but environmentalists say the move is simply delaying real action.
When you buy your next block of cheese, it may have been produced using solar power — especially if it's from a farm in the rolling hills of southern Tasmania.
Plans to build the world's largest solar farm in the Northern Territory receive support from what seems an unlikely ally.
The body that runs WA's main electricity market wants the ability to remotely dump excess solar power from households — cutting the bill rebates people currently receive — to help avoid rolling power cuts.
The body that runs WA's main electricity market wants the ability to remotely dump excess solar power from households — cutting the bill rebates people currently receive — to help avoid rolling power cuts.
One of the world's major oil and gas companies, Eni, starts building the Northern Territory's largest solar farm — boosting the NT's renewable energy use by up to 4 per cent.
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