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Battery

Cheaper Home Batteries 2.0: How the rebate changes will affect prices and consumer choices
After 10 months and close to 350,000 installations, the home battery rebate is changing this week. What will this do to prices and consumer choice?
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 28, 2026

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Wind, solar and battery projects at record high, but many stuck in funding, supply chain and other bottlenecks
Wind, solar and battery connection pipeline now at record high, but AEMO says many stuck at finance, supply chain, ownership and other bottlenecks.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 26, 2026

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Battery

“I’ll sign, you drill:” State puts oil and gas project on fast-track, two days after “calling in” another big battery
State government fast tracks approval for Australia’s first new prospective oil field in 50 years – and slams brakes on another big battery proposal.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 24, 2026

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Electrification

How I shocked my 20 year-old gas BBQ back to life with an electric conversion
I have converted my old BBQ from gas to electric, and I love using it again. I still have the old hotplates and burners, but I doubt they will ever see the light of day.
Tim Eden

Apr 24, 2026

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Renewables

“Cheaper and faster:” Fortescue to create a $1 billion green grid to power data centres
Fortescue has announced plans to spend nearly $1 billion on a new fossil fuel-free green grid to help power data centres and other industry.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 24, 2026

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Commentary

Are the rich really using rooftop solar and home batteries to steal from the poor?
Murdoch tabloid claims that rooftop solar and home batteries are helping the rich and hurting the poor are simply not true.
Tristan Edis

Apr 23, 2026

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Policy & Planning

Modelling shows network tariff reforms will slash some power bills, blow up others, even with solar and battery
New modelling claims higher fixed network charges would cut power costs for “most households,” but send others soaring by hundreds of dollars. Is there a way for everyone to win?
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 23, 2026

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Policy & Planning

“Just give us a shot:” Networks say community batteries can right the wrongs of grid gold plating
Should networks be allowed to deliver competitive services like shared storage from community batteries? Rob Amphlett Lewis explains how Ausgrid is “leaning in” to the transition and righting wrongs of the past.
Sophie Vorrath

Apr 22, 2026

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Renewables

“Wind will require further work:” Bowen says renewables target still achievable, but not inevitable
Bowen says 82 pct renewables target is still achievable, “but we need to work on wind” projects. Solar and battery hybrids, he notes, are “going gangbusters.”
Giles Parkinson

Apr 21, 2026

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Policy & Planning

Wild attack on batteries and renewables by 7’s Spotlight program falls over at the first fact check
TV program looking at appalling mining practices in Congo says it is a blight on the renewables and storage industry. But it falls over at the first fact check.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 20, 2026

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Policy & Planning

LNP takes credit for Labor wind deals as it boasts of huge oil and gas project pipeline
Queensland LNP government celebrates its new focus on fossil fuels, and makes some very misleading claims about the few renewable projects going ahead.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 19, 2026

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Storage

Stunning growth of battery storage puts it at centre of global energy security needs, for cars and for grids
The demand for batteries – for EVs and grid – has surged in the last year and is getting a further boost from the global fuel crisis as countries think energy security.
Giles Parkinson

Apr 17, 2026

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