World’s largest solar power plant moves forward with world’s lowest price

28 July 2020

Emirates utility awards contract to build 2GW Al Dhafra solar project at a record-low tariff for solar power of $0.0135/kWh.

Taylor’s stalled UNGI and Snowy 2.0 included on watchdog’s audit hit list

28 July 2020

The Auditor General has included the stalled UNGI program, and the Snowy 2.0 expansion, on its priority list for audits…

Additional funding for Clean Energy Future Fund

28 July 2020

McGowan Government allocates additional $10 million to Clean Energy Future Fund.

Airbus envisions green hydrogen-powered flights by early 2030s

28 July 2020

Senior executive from aerospace industry giant Airbus says company may launch a commercial airliner running on green hydrogen by the…

Iberdrola to build biggest European solar and battery hydrogen plant

28 July 2020

Iberdrola partners with Fertiberia to build a 100MW solar PV plant with 20MWh battery storage to power one of the…

UK wants big batteries to store renewables – but there’s a much cheaper solution

28 July 2020

While the UK government is right to want more energy storage to support the shift to renewables, a focus on…

Era of subsidy-free offshore wind turbines has arrived, researchers say

28 July 2020

New research finds that the costs of offshore wind projects is now so low, they are delivering 'negative subsidies' to…

Amazon chooses Australia to launch global data play for clean energy transition

28 July 2020

Amazon teams with NZ network company Vector to mine consumer data and use it to fast-track “profound” change in the…

New platform to track momentum towards zero net emissions now online

28 July 2020

ClimateWorks Australia launches a centralised platform for tracking corporate and government climate change pledges as it hopes to raise ambition.

West Australia’s first 100MW solar farm starts sending power to the grid

28 July 2020

The first 100MW solar farm in Western Australia begins sending power to the grid.

Governments must prepare communities for inevitable coal phase out, experts warn

28 July 2020

Energy and climate policy experts warn governments must prepare for impacts of inevitable coal phase out on workers and communities.

Nine more solar farms could have output cut to zero due to system strength issues

27 July 2020

Another nine large-scale solar farms in north Queensland with total capacity of more than 700MW warned their output could be…