Author: Energy Matters

The Bill Shorten renewable energy plan includes a pledge to establish a community power hub in the NSW seaside town of Tathra if he becomes Australia’s

A large-scale Townsville battery will be Queensland’s first grid-scale battery to back up a transition toward solar and renewable energy. Excess energy from 20,000 local solar

Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio says coal fired energy is failing Victorians, following state blackouts leading up to the Australia Day weekend. An extreme heat

Tech giants Facebook and Google led the renewable charge in 2018 as global corporations broke clean energy records. Corporations worldwide bought 13.4 gigawatts of renewable

Tasmanian solar PV owners frustrated by a dramatic solar feed-in tariff reduction are turning to home batteries. Aurora Energy’s formerly generous 1:1 tariff meant residential

Rooftop solar for homes and businesses is growing at a faster rate in the ACT than any other Australian state or territory. Data from Green

Waste in the privatised electricity market is forcing electricity price increases by more than $200 per year for the average consumer. That’s the verdict of

Those of us in the south-east will be experiencing a heatwave this week. In Adelaide, for example, a maximum of 45 degrees is forecast today,

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has scaled down yesterday’s level 3 load shedding warning as Victoria and South Australia swelter through a heatwave. Melbourne

Federal Labor Leader Bill Shorten is on a mission to supercharge clean hydrogen production in Australia. In the process, he hopes to make Gladstone in