Nine north-western Victoria councils are fighting to ensure their communities get the most out the transition to renewables, ...

Record levels of solar, wind and battery use are pushing down emissions in Australia but bigger cuts will be needed to meet its climate goal.

Sabiene Heindl from The Energy Charter on the need for strong regional leaders for transition to renewables. Plus: The frack up over data centres, and other news.

Big battery developers are facing increasing scrutiny from local communities about their projects. Some of the issues can be easily addressed.

As the NT government fights to power future data centres with gas, its publicly-owned utility is preparing to launch a tender for more grid-scale solar generation capacity to bolster its grids.

Bowen firmly rejects suggestion that Coalition states and territories have won fossil fuel carve-outs from the renewable energy mandates for data centres.

Bowen says transmission projects are key, including the VNI West link now under threat from a change in state government. But still no word on Snowy 2.0 cost update.

Rare earths mine supplying EV industry, and backed by Australia's richest person, has been operating with a 93 pct renewables share over the last six months.

Western economists, journalists and analysts systematically underestimate China's technology leadership, especially on the decarbonisation of a legacy 20th Century fossil fuel economy.

Work begins on $65 million network of eight community-scale batteries, which will support the grid in some of the hottest suburbs on the planet.

A package of reforms proposed to avoid a gas network death spiral has been described as a "profound disappointment" by consumer advocates, who say it puts faith gas companies to "price reasonably." ...

It's the middle of winter. It's cold, it's dark, it's 10 pm, and the first solar-battery hybrid built in Australia's NEM is sending power back to grid.