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Victoria's solar rebate scheme gets a major boost in next week's State Budget, with thousands of rebates available for home solar panels and solar batteries, in addition to $250 cash rebates for low income earners to put...

Hydrogen is being hailed as the fuel of the future and it's more politically palatable in regional areas than solar power, but it's still a decade away from being viable, writes Peter McCutcheon.

Will you tackle this week's news quiz like it's a mission to a remote asteroid — or will we have to mute your microphone from now on?

The rollout of solar panels on 5,000 social housing properties is reducing power bills for people on low incomes.

The sidelining of locally-elected voices in a decision to green-light a new power station at Esperance calls the integrity of a Western Australian Government approvals process into question.

The Government believes the projects will create more than 600 jobs and generate enough clean energy to power more than 80,000 homes, while farmers have labelled the decision as "gutless".

The first phase of the Victorian Government's popular but messy rooftop solar rebate program was never going to satisfy the demand for household solar in the state, according to figures from the national Clean Energy Regulator.

Dozens of workers from a Melbourne-based solar panel company are laid off, as the company claims customers are cancelling orders due to a three-month freeze on new applications for the Victorian Government's rebate scheme.

Dozens of workers from a Melbourne-based solar panel company are laid off, as the company claims customers are cancelling orders due to a three-month freeze on new applications for the Victorian Government's solar panel rebate...

A decision to scrap a $650 million solar thermal energy project in South Australia has left lingering questions about the future of the technology.

A $650 million solar thermal power plant planned for Port Augusta will not go ahead after the company behind it failed to secure commercial finance for the project.

A $650 million solar thermal power plant planned for Port Augusta will not go ahead after the company behind it failed to secure commercial finance for the project.

Victorian households are increasingly turning to the sun to power their homes, and the Labor Government is promising more renewable energy projects. But the state's electricity grid is actually struggling to adapt.

The Queensland Government has given the nod to a plan to build an abattoir in Gladstone that will be powered by its own renewable energy facility.

Homeowners could apply for a 50 per cent rebate on installation of a battery storage unit if they have solar panels already installed, under the election commitment.