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A new report is highlighting the need for greater flexibility in Australia's power grid to keep up with the move towards renewables, saying the framework of rules was set up when the system was dominated by large coal and...

Tesla has launched a new utility-scale energy storage product called Megapack modeled after the giant battery system it deployed in South Australia as the company seeks to provide an alternative to natural gas “peaker”...

Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD Various commenters pointed out to me that I made an error in my calculations.  First, the maintenance man told me the turbines were designed to produce 2.3 MW but only produce an average...

Guest post by Larry F. Brown, PhD We visited a wind farm in southern Utah recently. I’ve always been curious about the costs, profitability, and physical size of these things as well as the footprint and environmental...

Electricity giant AGL holds off plans to mothball parts of the gas-fired Torrens Island Power Station in Adelaide in a bid to prevent outages over summer caused by an ongoing outage at Victoria's Loy Yang Power Station.

There is a patchwork of renewable energy targets across the National Electricity Market, and while some states are well on the way to meeting their commitments, others are struggling.

China remains the world's largest producer of carbon emissions — where air pollution is still responsible for more than 1 million premature deaths a year — but also contributed to almost a third of the global renewables...

WA power provider Synergy will slump to almost $180 million in losses over the next four years, according to figures released in State Parliament, as the financial position of the state-owned utility deteriorates.

The Valley’s rocky history with cleantech investing has been well-documented. Startups focused on non-emitting-generation resources were once lauded as the next big cash cow, but the sector’s hype quickly got away from...

The NEM has just celebrated its 20th anniversary and, while it has done a good job, it is now in need of a major overhaul to keep the lights on, a major new report warns.

The Valley’s rocky history with clean tech investing has been well-documented. Startups focused on non-emitting generation resources were once lauded as the next big cash cow, but the sector’s hype quickly got away from...

Canberra will be effectively powered by renewable energy from October 1 — the first Australian jurisdiction to do so, according to the ACT's Climate Change Minister.

Canberra will be effectively powered by renewable energy from October 1 — the first Australian jurisdiction to do so, according to the ACT's Climate Change Minister.

Canberra will be effectively powered by renewable energy from October 1 — the first Australian jurisdiction to do so, according to the ACT's Climate Change Minister.