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Victoria votes for solar, batteries and climate action, as Labor wins in a landslide
State poll delivers a crushing defeat to Liberal-National Coalition, and a clear endorsement of strong policies on climate change and renewable energy.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 26, 2018

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Victoria Labor promises to extend rooftop solar rebate to renters
Victoria Labor says it will extend its rooftop solar rebate to the state’s tens of thousands of renters, if re-elected in the state poll two weeks from now.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 13, 2018

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CleanTech Bites

Victoria renewables auction points to another fall in wind and solar costs
Victoria is not releasing price details of Australia’s largest renewable energy auction, but there is enough information to point to another significant fall in the cost of wind and solar.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 12, 2018

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CleanTech Bites

Victoria to support six wind and solar farms after overwhelming response to auction
Victoria government to contract six new wind and solar farms after overwhelming response to renewables auction, with 928MW of capacity awarded, way more than the 650MW planned.
Giles Parkinson

Sep 10, 2018

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Victoria Labor pledges $1.2 billion in rebates, loans for rooftop solar
Victoria Labor government proposes rebates and zero interest loans to encourage another 650,000 homes to install another 2.6GW of rooftop solar.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 19, 2018

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CleanTech Bites

Victoria sees huge interest, low prices in renewable auction
Victoria says response to Australia’s largest renewable energy auction has been extremely strong and expects prices to be “very competitive”.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 7, 2018

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Press Releases

AusNet services to develop terminal station for Pacific Hydro’s crowlands wind farm
AusNet Services announces today that agreement has been secured with Pacific Hydro to develop a new transmission connection for the 80 MW Crowlands Wind Farm project in the Pyrenees Shire Council in western Victoria, near Avoca.
AusNet Services

Jan 25, 2018

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Victorian Government

Victoria leads, Federal government leans on energy transition
Yesterday was an historic day for Victoria’s energy future. And there’s more good news on the way. Not that you would know it from listening to federal energy minister.
Leigh Ewbank

Aug 24, 2017

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CleanTech Bites

Victoria to unveil wind and solar tenders in push for 40% renewables
Major renewable energy tender announcements expected from Victoria, along with more details of state renewable energy target architecture.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 22, 2017

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Markets

Failed experiment: Now it’s retail arms gaming energy consumers
First it was the networks, then generators. Now it’s the retail arms gouging consumers. A bipartisan review of Victoria’s retail electricity market reveals a failed experiment that has delivered the most inflated power bills in Australia.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 14, 2017

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VRET – the only safe bet for consumers, industry and jobs
There is no doubt that Victoria’s renewable energy target will be good for consumers, industry and jobs. They should start the auctions soon.
Oliver Yates

May 25, 2017

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AusNet trial successfully takes part of Melbourne suburb off-grid
Eight homes successfully separated from main electricity grid and operated as stand-alone solar and battery storage powered mini-grid, in Melbourne trial.
Sophie Vorrath

May 11, 2017

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