Dark echoes of the past have surfaced with calls from the Coalition’s far right to scrap the renewable energy target. The timing coincides with the newly installed backwards-looking US administration which, with a sweep of the pen, is dismantling clean energy initiatives as fast as it is ushering in a series of dubious coal and gas projects. The last thing Australian industry needs is a return to uncertainty over clean energy targets caused by a marginalised, embittered past PM with a small band of flat earth supporters.

New South Wales grid operator Endeavour Energy is tendering for a large scale battery storage array to reduce network costs for a new housing development west of Illawarra.

Mark Nicholson, head of special projects at N Group Priority One in Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, saw an opportunity in solar where others didn’t.

‘Silicon Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Hanwha Q CELLS has secured a major module supply deal with US utility, Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) valued at US$317.1 million.