No new wind, slow transmission and a buyer’s strike: Why Australia may miss its renewable energy target

1 September 2025

Analysts suggest Capacity Investment Scheme needs tough penalties for failed projects if the flagship policy is to deliver the 82…

The abdication of the EPA, and the giant gift to fossil fuels

31 August 2025

Trump is now stopping all domestic efforts to address climate change – as if it did not exist, and even…

Australia’s battery policy is stuck in waste mode – and it’s costing us

31 August 2025

Australia must decide if it will keep treating batteries as waste – or start designing for value retention across the full…

“A big deal:” Victoria gives green tick to 400 MW wind project – the first major wind approval in years

31 August 2025

Victoria gives planning approval to 400 MW wind project, the first for a major wind project for several years.

Sunshine state enjoys highest ever rooftop solar output – and record levels of renewable curtailment

31 August 2025

Australia's most coal dependent state enjoys record levels of rooftop PV, and record levels of curtailment of large scale solar…

Turbine shut-downs back on the table as contested Tasmania wind farm gets federal green light

29 August 2025

Plans to build a 900 MW wind farm on a Tasmania island given the EPBC green light, but with conditions…

Coal town set to add a third big battery as solar and BESS project narrowly wins panel approval

29 August 2025

State Development Assessment Panel votes narrowly to give conditional approval for a 200 MW battery to be built alongside a…

Energy Insiders Podcast: AGL’s struggle with coal

29 August 2025

AGL boss Damien Nicks discusses how the country's biggest coal generator is managing the transition to renewables, storage and electric…

AGL may mothball coal units, or shut them down over weekends, to make way for solar, hints at wind contract

29 August 2025

Australia's biggest coal generator flags potential mothballing and weekend closures of some units, as it comes under pressure over its…

“Weaponised incompetence:” Littleproud urged to meet scientists after “peddling climate denial”

29 August 2025

Nationals leader urged to met with climate scientists after suggesting Australia should not worry so much about cutting emissions, and…

Bowen seeks 1.6 GW wind and solar, 2.4 GWh of storage in super-sized CIS tenders for largest isolated grid

29 August 2025

Bowen launches tenders for 1.6 GW of renewables and 2.4 GWh of storage to add to the isolated WA grid…

WA shatters peak winter electricity demand records, as wind and batteries power up

29 August 2025

WA's main grid has shattered winter peak demand records – and moved them into the evening – driven by colder weather…