Wind hits record share of 150 pct of state demand, as fossil energy shrinks to just 1.5 pct of total generation

26 October 2025

Australia's most advanced renewable grid hits new wind and solar records, with batteries also playing a key part and gas…

AEMO turns to battery inverters for “world-first” trial of running big grids with no synchronous generation

26 October 2025

AEMO to conduct "world first" trials of running a big isolated grid with no synchronous generation, with battery inverters taking…

Cheaper Home Batteries is a great start, but it must avoid repeating rooftop solar mistakes

25 October 2025

Labor's Cheaper Home Batteries rebate and other state-based incentives are driving uptake of distributed storage. But will they fit the…

“Intermittent coal:” Bowen tells right-wing think tank and fierce critic that it’s got it wrong on renewables

24 October 2025

Energy minister Chris Bowen takes the fight to one of the government's loudest critics, saying the right wing think tank…

The fog of electricity price disinformation

24 October 2025

When the CEO of BHP tells everyone he meets that Australian electricity prices are double those of countries we compete…

Andrew Forrest’s Squadron completes biggest wind farm to be fully commissioned in Australia this year

24 October 2025

All 100 turbines of the first stage of massive Queensland wind farm now feeding power into the grid after final…

South Australia’s biggest wind farm, with the country’s lowest feed-in tariff, is officially open for business

24 October 2025

Wind farm that offered the lowest publicly announced feed in tariff, and a landmark "baseload renewables" contract with BHP is…

Energy Insiders Podcast: Data centres, batteries, gas and SMRs

24 October 2025

GE Vernova chief commercial officer Pablo Koziner on the latest thinking around data centres, wind energy, gas, SMRs and batteries.…

Australians install 100,000 home battery systems in 17 weeks, and they are getting bigger

24 October 2025

By Monday, Australia will have surpassed 100,000 small battery systems installed and registered since 1 July when household batteries became…

Carbon pricing was once political poison. Now it’s just good economics for the grid

24 October 2025

"We know how it works:" Australia's electricity grid could get the carbon price it needs, just by adapting a Coalition…

Wind farm that sought taller turbines to avoid cockatoo strikes wins federal environmental approval

24 October 2025

WA wind farm proposal that sought to raise the height of its turbines to protect black cockatoos has been given…

Global shipping is facing winds of change, despite chaos and confusion from the petrostates

24 October 2025

If the shipping sector was a country, it would emit more than double that of Australia. The answer to this…