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Policy & Planning

Turbine shut-downs back on the table as contested Tasmania wind farm gets federal green light
Plans to build a 900 MW wind farm on a Tasmania island given the EPBC green light, but with conditions that could include turbine shutdowns.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 29, 2025

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Coal

AGL may mothball coal units, or shut them down over weekends, to make way for solar, hints at wind contract
Australia’s biggest coal generator flags potential mothballing and weekend closures of some units, as it comes under pressure over its climate plan.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 29, 2025

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Renewables

Bowen seeks 1.6 GW wind and solar, 2.4 GWh of storage in super-sized CIS tenders for largest isolated grid
Bowen launches tenders for 1.6 GW of renewables and 2.4 GWh of storage to add to the isolated WA grid in the latest two rounds of its Capacity Investment Scheme.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 29, 2025

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Wind

Owner of Australia’s biggest wind farm buys massive pipeline of battery, wind and solar projects
TagEnergy, the owner of Australia’s biggest wind farm, has snapped up a huge pipeline of mostly wind and battery projects that it says will supercharge its business.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 28, 2025

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Electrification

Saul Griffith’s call to arms: He wants a consumer army to lead fight for cheapest energy system
Saul Griffith wants to build an army. Not of soldiers, but of householders, tradies, and communities who can demand more of the energy industry and government.
Anne Delaney

Aug 27, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Australian industry can ditch diesel, says report, but not without ditching its subsidy first
Ditching diesel is “absolutely possible” from a technology perspective, a new report has found, but first the fuel tax credit that subsidies burning diesel has to be removed.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 27, 2025

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Renewables

Green, spiky and duck-shaped: How the last 10 years has changed Australia’s grid
State of the Energy Market report looks back on a record-breaking 2024 for wind and solar and their impact on the grid – and a stunning decade of change.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 26, 2025

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Storage

Australia’s first two gigawatt-hour battery is now commissioned, to soak up rooftop PV at massive scale
Neoen’s Collie battery has completed commissioning, with nearly 20 times more storage than the original Hornsdale battery, It is the first of many at that size.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 25, 2025

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Renewables

Global wind giant pulls plug on Australia’s first floating wind project
Federal Labor says offshore wind plans for NSW Hunter region are not sunk, just on ice, after developers call time on the only project in the zone offered a feasibility licence.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 22, 2025

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Storage

Stunning success of home battery boom will slash rooftop solar exports, and reshape the grid – again
Australian households are not just putting in more solar batteries, they are putting in bigger ones. And that has big implications for how the grid is managed.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 22, 2025

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Renewables

3,000 turbines and 35 solar farms: New details emerge of massive 70 GW project proposed for Nullarbor
New details emerge on design and sheer scale of what could be the world’s biggest wind and solar project, proposed for the Nullarbor Plains.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 21, 2025

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Climate

“Who will look after the elderly?” Bush Summit is back, and so is Gina Rinehart’s dystopian net zero vision
Australia’s richest person is fretting about the impact of net zero on emergency services, jet pilots and the elderly. Will the PM and state premiers allay her fears?
Giles Parkinson

Aug 21, 2025

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