AEMO governance review is a rare starting point for big questions about Australia’s energy market institutions. The risk is that it produces incremental tweaks rather than a fundamental rethink.
Building just one-third of the offshore wind capacity proposed for Victorian waters would slash electricity bills, avoid hundreds of kilometres of onshore transmission, and loosen gas's grip, says report.
China giant Trina Solar shelves big battery project in Queensland just days after it was called in for reassessment by state planning minister Jarrod Bleijie.
The real anathema in the modern Australian economy is not renewable energy, but the idea that our prosperity depends on shipping prehistoric hydrocarbons halfway around the planet.
Publicly-owned gentailer completes final concrete turbine foundation at what is the state's first new wind farm development in several years.
Queensland set two new instantaneous power generation records over the weekend, offering a useful snapshot of how the state's supply mix is evolving across the full day.
Ground-breaking hybrid renewables system installed at an outback opal mining town in South Australia is claiming a new record for continuous diesel-free operations.
The arrival of big batteries - including the two biggest in Australia to date - has changed the game on the country's biggest isolated grid, particularly on prices.
We have identified two sensible strategies that would allow NSW to reduce residential gas consumption and achieve a net reduction in electricity demand.
Years of approvals that allow DNSPs to get around ring-fencing rules are the target of a new request to stop waivers being misused.
New data shows new global wind capacity hit a third-straight record year in 2025, led by China which became the first market to add more than 100 GW in a single year.
Andrew Forrest’s 2 gigawatt wind plans to help decarbonise his Pilbara iron ore operations have rejoined the queue for federal environmental approval, following a “substantial redesign." The post Huge Fortescue wind farm seeks federal green tick a...
Judge accuses regional council of having a "bee in their bonnet" and of losing perspective in its case against a wind project approval.
Digging into NSW’s generation mix reveals that the supply gap from coal exists remains substantial. Eraring currently contributes more to the state’s mix than grid-scale solar and wind combined during winter (28% vs 20%), while utility-scale batte...
How does Australia compare to the rest of the world on the number wind turbines per 1000km squared? The post How does Australia compare on wind turbine density? The answer might surprise you appeared first on Renew Economy.
Batteries are delivering higher peak morning supply than gas. Gas is still twice as large as batteries in the evening but it's losing share.
The Queensland Renewable Energy Council (QREC) has welcomed the inclusion of enabling infrastructure between the Port of Gladstone and Central Queensland renewable energy projects on the latest Infrastructure Priority List released by Infrastructu...
VicGrid is inviting expressions of interest from developers to partner in the delivery of at least three new synchronous condensers at or near the Hazelwood terminal station in the Latrobe Valley.
One state in Australia remains particularly vulnerable to global oil shocks because it hasn't built the replacement capacity for coal.
Huge wind project that survived LNP's perilous project call-in process kicks off full federal environmental assessment, with novel plan for battery with every turbine.