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Clean Energy Council report details ‘particularly poor’ investment in large-scale plants but says rooftop solar and batteries are ‘storming ahead’

State’s energy minister calls for national approach to energy system resilience as climate change causes more extreme weather events

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Grid faces fresh strains as heatwave roasting inland Queensland and NSW extends to Sydney

Australia is not rolling out clean energy projects nearly fast enough to reach the Australian government’s target of 82% renewable electricity by 2030. A huge build of solar and wind farms, transmission lines and big batteries is needed. But progress is challenged by the scale required, community resistance to new…

Data shows 2023 had second-highest record of rooftop solar installations as small-scale solar continues to grow

Surging consumption comes despite ‘very sleepy period’ for electricity use, energy expert says

The figure is based on an Institute of Public Affairs report, but its extrapolations have been described as ‘ridiculous’

Australia’s coal power stations will all close in 2038 – five years earlier than previously expected – and variable renewable energy capacity will need to triple by 2030 and increase sevenfold by 2050.

Energy market tsars are out of step with the "rooftop revolution" and other household energy that could be harnessed in a clean, low-cost system, critics say.

Solar and windfarms will need to triple by 2030 to 57GW and expand seven-fold by 2050 to 126GW