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A new report has outlined four pathways to help power Alice Springs by 50 per cent renewable energy within six years, providing a roadmap to put the town years ahead of Darwin, Katherine, and the national energy market.

Some are cheering the extra income from a proposed renewable energy transmission line, while others are vowing to lock their gates against electricity provider Transgrid.

Andrew Balfour has seven transmission towers on his farm. He doesn't recommend it to others — but sites for new power infrastructure will be needed across the state as renewable energy projects take off.

Residents say the Central-West Orana renewable energy zone being developed by the NSW government is causing division in rural communities due to confidentiality agreements and what they believe are unfair payments.

A Victorian farmer says someone purporting to be doing market research for the federal government seemed to be trying to elicit positive response about the VNI West transmission line.

Regional communities will be able to access hundreds of millions of dollars in a new fund created to spread the benefits of the renewables boom.

Almost 6,000 solar panels have been installed by Treasury Wine Estates, with the ability to generate more than 5,000 megawatt-hours of energy per year — the equivalent of powering around 900 homes.

Regional communities will be able to access hundreds of millions of dollars in a new fund created to spread the benefits of the renewables boom.

An ambitious project to take thousands of West Australian properties off-grid is taking shape. Here's how farmers are finding their new solar power systems.

Four solar farms in the Northern Territory are sitting idle, years after construction.

Two farmers running merinos on solar farms in NSW's Central West say their sheep thrive under solar panels, while wool quality has increased.

Two farmers running merinos on solar farms in NSW's Central West say their sheep thrive under solar panels, while wool quality has increased.

Corangamite Shire Council says the area's gas and agriculture industries shouldn't be sacrificed for renewable energy projects as it battles against a plan to build a solar farm in the region.

Border lockdowns and supply chain disruptions fail to slow the rampant uptake of rooftop solar in Australia where householders installed record amounts of new capacity last year.

A week ago we were wondering what the UN climate summit in Glasgow, COP26, might deliver for humanity. We'd been told many times that the world is not on track to limit warming to less than 2 degrees, and that Glasgow was...