Investment in new wind and solar projects dropped by 64 pct in the first half of 2025, new data reveals, with no wind projects at all reaching financial close over the period.

Cybersecurity is emerging as a risk in large scale and small scale renewables, with some suggesting the solar switch-off mechanism makes a hacker’s life easy.

Of the renewable energy projects deemed controllable actions in 2023 and 2024, none have made it through the EPBC process.

I know an electrician in Melbourne who cops a few comments when he pulls up to worksites in his Tesla – ladder on top, tools in the back. But the laughter fades fast.

Investment in new wind and solar projects dropped by 64 pct in the first half of 2025, new data reveals, with no wind projects at all reaching financial close over the period.

Windlab project in north Queensland spent four years in the EPBC queue, but is back in the queue over its grid infrastructure needs.

NSW is to fast track tenders, and offer more capacity, as it ramps up its wind, solar and storage targets to keep prices down as coal exits the grid.

What happens when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine? New study says such events will be infrequent, expensive, but won’t result in power shortfalls.

The first shipment of up to 30,000 wind farm components expected over next decade arrives at giant coal port now a gateway for renewables.

When a government puts public money into century-old smelters, it is not nostalgia. It is a bet that processing capacity in friendly jurisdictions matters as much as mines.

Of the renewable energy projects deemed controllable actions in 2023 and 2024, none have made it through the EPBC process.

US-listed battery storage developer gets FIRB approval for its biggest ever deal, an eight hour battery in NSW, as it seeks funding to build this and other projects.