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Australia has notched up a new renewable energy milestone, with the number of households around the country to have installed rooftop solar passing the four million mark.

Five months after it was first announced, NSW launches its home battery incentive, offering up to $2,400 discounts on solar storage and rebates to join VPPs.

A two-year campaign led by the local community of the 2515 postcode has resulted in world-first pilot project.

A community-led effort to electrify 500 homes in New South Wales has won millions in federal government funding, weeks ahead of its official launch in November.

Victoria will seek to lock in its energy upgrades subisdy for another 15 years, to drive investment in bill-busting energy efficiency and electrification.

NSW Labor's Consumer Energy Strategy doesn't include a gas phaseout plan, yet, but its message is clear: you're better off going electric.

A ban on new gas cooktops is off the table in Victoria, with the state government backing away from an across the board phaseout of all new gas appliances in homes.

In an unassuming factory in an Adelaide industrial precinct, 5B is walking the talk on making solar in Australia. In this case, not cells or modules, but solar Mavericks.

The Powerwall 3 has had its official launch in Australia, bringing fresh insights on its specs and special talents – and how it differs from the Powerwall 2 – and revealing the local price.

New research finds re-configuring Australia’s off-peak hot water systems to coincide with peak daytime solar production could provide around 4,000GWh of flexible demand a year.

Australia’s largest off-grid chicken farm – and one of biggest off-grid farms of any kind – is being powered completely by on-site solar and battery storage.

Motivated by wanting to show what householders can achieve, Brody Kenrick upgraded his house to generate clean energy for the grid, reduce emissions and make money for his family.

Two-year trial underscores "huge potential" for virtual power plants to solve some of the grid's thorniest problems, as long as they can reward customers, too.

Locked out of rooftop solar and locked in to a prepaid electricity supply, a remote Indigenous community in the NT has taken the power back with a trail-blazing solar and battery microgrid.

New South Wales government announces home battery rebate of up to $2,400 for existing solar homes and a reward for battery owners who join virtual power plants.

Reports that NSW solar households are about to get slugged with shock new export tariffs are exaggerated – but only slightly. The sun tax is coming and it is controversial.