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Australia’s solar industry is deeply influenced by federal and state-level energy policies, regulatory frameworks, and evolving market mechanisms. This category offers comprehensive analysis of renewable energy targets, policy reforms, electricity pricing, and incentive programs like the Small-scale Renewable Energy Scheme (SRES) and Large-scale Renewable Energy Target (LRET). We also explore political debates, regulatory shifts, and the financial and strategic moves of key market players shaping the future of solar in Australia—from utility-scale developers to community-driven solar initiatives.

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Securing power purchase agreements a barrier for large-scale renewables

A significant number of renewable energy projects without power purchase agreements is a key impediment to renewables projects progressing to construction, according to an IEEFA report.

Ev Foley

3 hours ago

Markets & Policy

GameChange sues Nextpower in expanding solar tracker patent war

Solar tracking rivals are now locked in dueling federal lawsuits over proprietary hardware and control software.

Ryan Kennedy

Sep 15, 2026

Markets & Policy

RSK Group acquires Australian planning consultancy Cogency

RSK Group’s acquisition of Cogency, a planning and approvals consultancy, brings expertise drawn from work on several major Australian battery storage and solar projects into its portfolio.

Brian Publicover

Sep 14, 2026

Markets & Policy

Australia to introduce technical code for consumer energy resources

Australia’s new regulatory framework for solar inverters, batteries and other consumer energy resources will require suppliers to register products and prove compliance with a technical code. It also introduces national-level accreditation for installers.

Patrick Jowett

Sep 14, 2026

Markets & Policy

Farmers can now produce more of their own energy than ever – but will they?

Imagine you’re halfway through your annual wheat harvest when a global crisis sends diesel and fertiliser prices soaring. All at once, your costs surge and your slender profit margin shrinks.

Md Alamgir Hossain and Shahbaz Mushtaq

Sep 11, 2026

Markets & Policy

Beyond the bowser: why grid orchestration and smart tariffs are the real EV revolution

Kaluza Director of Product (C&I) Jesse Warburg spoke to pv magazine about how electric vehicle sales spikes may indicate panic buying in the wake of rising oil prices, but the real value is to coordinate and unlock flexibility to serve the next wave of electrified demand.

Ev Foley

Sep 11, 2026

Markets & Policy

Western Australia needs 40 GW generation, 125 GWh storage by 2035: report

A new report has found shared infrastructure in Western Australia is falling short with just 8% of the SWIS generation and 11% of storage in construction, and the NWIS is just 9% and 2% respectively.

Ev Foley

Sep 11, 2026

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Applications & Installations

Rooftop solar install rates deliver near-record January The latest monthly data from industry analyst SunWiz shows that about 234 MW of new rooftop solar was registered across Australia in the first month of 2025, a 6% increase on the same time last year.

David Carroll

Feb 10, 2025

Applications & Installations

BJEI Australia’s planned 1 GW solar acquisition in doubt Chinese state-owned company Beijing Energy International has reportedly abandoned its bid to acquire a more than 1 GW package of Australian solar farms after failing to secure approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board.

David Carroll

Feb 10, 2025

Applications & Installations

Green Gold Energy secures approval for 200 MW solar and storage project Plans to build a 200 MW solar farm coupled with 200 MW / 400 MWh battery energy storage system northeast of Adelaide have won development approval from the South Australian government.

David Carroll

Feb 10, 2025

Markets & Policy

Tesla plans battery ‘re-manufacturing’ plant for WA Tesla is to expand its presence in Australia with a “re-manufacturing” facility to be built at Collie in Western Australia’s southwest to service its grid-scale and residential battery energy storage products.

David Carroll

Feb 09, 2025

Markets & Policy

China exports 235.9 GW of solar panels in 2024 China exported 235.93 GW of PV panels in 2024, a 13% increase over the previous year. Of this, 94.4 GW were shipped to Europe, down 7% from 2023.

Pilar Sánchez Molina

Feb 09, 2025

Applications & Installations

India hits 100 GW solar milestone India has hit 100.33 GW of cumulative installed solar capacity, crossing a critical threshold as it moves toward its 2030 goal of 500 GW of non-fossil energy.

pv magazine

Feb 09, 2025

Applications & Installations

International partners plan floating solar for Australia Singapore-headquartered Canopy Power has teamed with Norwegian floating PV specialist Ocean Sun aiming to accelerate the deployment of floating solar technology across Australia’s water bodies.

David Carroll

Feb 07, 2025

Applications & Installations

Keeping up with curtailment: A little? too much? or much ado about nothing? I recently came across an article about renewable curtailment that sparked a significant amount of online discussion, stating that a total of 4.5 TWh of energy was curtailed in Australia’s National Electricity Market in 2024.

Dan Lee

Feb 07, 2025

Applications & Installations

Amp reaches financial close on South Australian battery Canadian developer Amp Energy has achieved financial close on the first stage of its 250 MW / 500 MWh Bungama battery energy storage and 339 MW (dc) solar project being built near Port Pirie in South Australia.

David Carroll

Feb 07, 2025

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