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The Federal Labor government has put a $387 billion price tag on the cost of the federal Coalition’s push for nuclear energy, describing those plans as “lies and fantasies” and based around a hatred for wind and solar....

Rooftop solar continues to take a big bite out of the business and operating model of Australia’s main grid, hitting new output records on Sunday and sending minimum demand records tumbling across the country....

The Coalition’s commitment to undermine Australia’s push to renewables is getting more creative – and desperate – by the week, with new claims that the federal government’s 82 per cent target is putting a flame under the cyber security risk posed by rooftop solar inverters....

Australia must rapidly transition away from gas to renewable energy for environmental and economic reasons....

An advertisement by Australia’s gas lobby has been taken off the airwaves after it was found to mislead viewers with environmental claims....

The fight over “net zero” at the National Party over the weekend was all a bit of a charade. Yes, it garnered attention from mainstream media, but it was essentially meaningless....

National leader David Littleproud has reportedly threatened to tear up contracts for wind and solar farm developments, in the latest broadside against large scale renewable energy from the federal Coalition....

Claims that decommissioned wind turbine blades have been secretly dumped in a shallow grave in a forest in far north Queensland have been thoroughly debunked this week – but not before being gobbled up by 2GB, Sky News, The Australian and various other Murdoch media mastheads....

A bold plan to spend $30 billion over ten years on wind, solar and storage and drag at least one of Australia’s big energy utilities into the promised green energy future has been formally laid to rest – a triumph, if that’s the word, of greed over climate concerns....

This is a great article that uses real data to see how our grid world perform with greater wind, solar and storage. It shows that we can easily achieve a 95% renewable grid with a modest level of storage....

NuScale, the controversial proponent of nuclear small modular reactor designs that has been championed by the federal Coalition and technology ideologues around the world, has had its flagship project cancelled because of rising costs....

Imagine a fleet of ageing factories operating in neighbourhoods across Australia....

Victorian Labor has officially launched the State Electricity Commission, the renewables focused reboot of the publicly-owned utility that, for much of the 1900s, was the sole agency for the state’s power generation, transmission, distribution and supply....

Nationals leader David Littleproud says he wants to have an “honest” conversation about Australia’s energy transition. Well and good. But maybe Littleproud himself can help that process by not telling outright lies....