A one-day summit staged in Townsville this month will highlight the huge economic potential of renewable energy and solar storage in North Queensland.

Leading solar PV inverter supplier Huawei said it had won the supply bid for Malaysia's first 50MW(AC) utility-scale PV plant project based on its ability to provide smart solutions to the projects challenging location and environmental conditions.

The coal lobby is showing increasing signs of desperation, dipping into their bags of increasingly tenuous talking points in an attempt to find an argument to demonise renewables, battery storage, and promote their core commodity.

Confusion is profit. It is one of the unwritten tenets of Australia’s retail electricity businesses. And it’s worked beautifully for the electricity industry as it has for the mobile phone and other sectors.