12+ hour, 55+ min ago   (997+ words) Consumer energy advocates have called on federal and state governments to make plug-in solar and batteries legal to use in Australia within 10 months, following last week’s news that clearing a path for the technology known in Europe as “balcony solar…...

11+ hour, 40+ min ago   (558+ words) A new wind and battery storage project, backed by some of the country’s biggest super funds, has been unveiled for south-east Queensland, despite the push-back against renewable energy technologies by the state government. LP Renewables Projects, an Australian developer, and…...

13+ hour, 35+ min ago   (687+ words) Monday, September 14, 2026 Tasmania’s Bell Bay industrial centre continues to be a field of dreams for hydrogen companies, with the latest proposal a $1.5 billion 3D printing manufacturing hub. Perth company PolarBlue is proposing to combine its hydrogen energy technology and its fibre…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (433+ words) Advocates for advancing consumer energy resources, such as rooftop solar, home batteries and electric vehicles, says they are concerned the Albanese government will reverse course on plans to assign technical regulations to the independent Clean Energy Regulator and instead grant…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (576+ words) Spanish developer Iberdrola has withdrawn its proposed Gin Gin battery from the Queensland planning process, although it says remaining committed to the project and will go back to local council to seek approvals. The 500 megawatt (MW), up to four hour…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (531+ words) The Victorian Labor government has cancelled the proposed Central-North renewable energy zone (REZ) on the grounds that the region already hosts “significant renewable energy” projects, on a grid with limited capacity for more. The Central-North REZ was the last undeclared…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1773+ words) “Things have changed in Queensland,” Clean Energy Council chief executive and former deputy premier (Labor) Jackie Trad noted at the start of the CEC’s Queensland Energy Summit on Wednesday. And so they have. For a start, Labor is no longer…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (182+ words) Renew Economy How retailers are standing in the way of cheaper power | SwitchedOn Australia Tim Ryan argues Australia is trying to build a 21st-century, consumer-led electricity system while preserving retailers as compulsory ‘middlemen.’ But retailers are businesses that have little…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (463+ words) Wednesday, September 9, 2026 The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has marked the installation of 100 community batteries and announced a further $23.2 million in funding for three new energy storage systems to be built under a second round of its national grants scheme....

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (399+ words) Tuesday, September 8, 2026 One of Australia’s landmark renewable energy “gen-tailers,” Flow Power, is reportedly up for sale, with its major shareholder alongside its founder said to be shopping around for buyers. The Australian Financial Review reports that Canadian pension fund OPTrust…...