07 May 2025 Another record quarter for clean power The Australian Energy Market Operator’s Quarterly Energy Dynamics Q1 2025 shows renewable generation across the National Electricity Market hit an average 43 percent share—up five points on the same quarter last year—while operational emissions fell…
16 Feb 2025 A new high‑water mark for suburban solar New South Wales quietly set an energy milestone at 12 : 25 pm on Saturday, 15 February 2025, when rooftop solar systems met 60.3 percent of the state’s total electricity demand. The event—verified by AEMO’s high‑resolution SCADA feed—pushed coal…
09 Dec 2024 India’s largest privately owned module maker, Waaree Energies, has sealed a multi‑year supply and engineering alliance with Australian prefabricated‑rack pioneer 5B. By marrying wafer‑thin Indian panel margins to 5B’s ultra‑fast “Maverick” field‑deployment system, the partners aim to cut the delivered…
30 Oct 2024 Australia’s clean‑energy transition chalked up another landmark in the spring quarter of 2024. The Australian Energy Market Operator’s freshly released Quarterly Energy Dynamics Q3 2024 report documents a pair of historic moments on 9 September: at 12 : 05 pm the National Electricity Market…
24 Sep 2024 Queensland has officially broken ground on Australia’s—and the southern hemisphere’s—largest iron‑flow battery manufacturing complex: a 3.2 GWh‑per‑year facility on the outskirts of Maryborough. Backed by a $440‑million state‑government capital injection and a federal clean‑energy loan guarantee, the plant will mass‑produce…
30th August 2024 A groundbreaking hybrid solar and battery microgrid installed in 2020 to help power a gold mine in remote Western Australia will have its generation capacity more than doubled, boosting the share of renewables used to power the…
5th October 2023 The big stash of savings Australians put away during the Covid-19 pandemic is running out and people are increasingly turning to specialised finance providers to pay for rooftop solar, batteries and electrification. But that isn’t putting new…
23rd August 2023 After hitting a 12-month low in April, installations of rooftop solar systems have rebounded in May, jumping by around 30 per cent and charting the largest monthly total of new capacity added for the year to date.…
3rd August 2023 The call from industry experts to “cover the roof” in solar panels, as we move rapidly towards all-electric homes and cars, might be gaining some traction, with new monthly data showing the average home system size hitting…
21st December 2022 The combined forces of rooftop and utility scale solar met the equivalent of all of South Australia’s electricity demand for more than six hours on Sunday, as “operational demand” was nearly eliminated as it fell to a…
