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The Coalition went to the last election proposing to build seven state-owned nuclear power plants across the country.

Australia’s green power switch may cost more than first thought: CSIRO

While renewables remain the cheapest, the cost to develop technologies not previously used in Australia will add to the price of going green.

  • Nick Toscano

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More than 4 million Australians are producing their own electricity from the sun via their rooftop solar.

Power giant warns of ‘two-speed’ green shift which benefits only the rich

The household clean energy boom may create winners and losers, warns power distribution company Ausgrid.

  • Nick Toscano
Australia is stepping in to help Jakarta clean its air.

How the humble motorbike became the latest tool of diplomacy in Asia

As China seeks to expand its influence, the Albanese government has found a new way to help a critical neighbour.

  • Mike Foley
Businessman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest during a state dinner in Washington in September.

Trump kills Twiggy Forrest’s US green hydrogen dream

The Australian billionaire has terminated a major hydrogen project in the US as the president guts clean energy funding and unwinds efforts to fight climate change.

  • Nick Toscano
Eastwood apartment owners Caroline and Graeme Edwards

Home batteries for renters? A solution could be coming soon

Electricity retailers say they could plug a gap in the clean energy shift and balance rewards for renters and home owners.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Because nature is so vast, when we assess the negative environmental impact of one project at a time, it will often seem tiny and irrelevant.

Like ChatGPT, we need clear goals and rules. Otherwise, we could make bad decisions

We’re remarkably similar to the chatbot. But there’s one big thing we can – and need – to do differently.

  • Millie Muroi
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The federal government has selected several projects to start development of offshore wind farms near the Gippsland coast.

Turning ocean winds into electricity is getting harder

Some prospective developers of the first Australian offshore wind projects have withdrawn from their early feasibility studies already.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
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Australia’s great leap forward: China opportunity makes Trump tariffs look like ‘a pimple on the bum of the iron ore trade’

Australia’s potential to export green metals – made here using abundant, cheap renewable energy – could deliver immeasurable economic benefits and accelerate the global race to net zero. It’s now a step closer.

  • Peter Hartcher
Home batteries.

Sick of power bills? What you need to know before buying a home battery

Battery sales are booming as buyers seek to slash power bills. But without learning the key facts, they risk squandering thousands of dollars.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Blowouts for key transmission lines is risking further extensions to coal plants and increased greenhouse emissions from the energy grid.

Strung out: Power line problems put nation’s renewable rollout on backburner

Cost blowouts and delays on key transmission-line projects are risking Australian coal plants staying open for longer, and sending greenhouse emissions in the wrong direction.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

Original URL: https://www.smh.com.au/topic/renewable-energy-617