The UK has just thrown its weight behind community energy. Australia should too
Last week, the UK committed up to £1 billion to community and local energy, with an ambition that by 2030, every community will have the opportunity to own an energy project. Australia should take notice.

Perhaps the most important feature of the latest monthly electricity data from the IEA is not that renewables dominate growth in electricity consumption but that every country is doing the same thing.
Australia's biggest publicly owned wind farm has been cleared for construction in Queensland coal country after gaining federal environmental approval.
GridBeyond CEO Michael Phelan on how industrial loads and data centres are being orchestrated by AI and batteries to unlock gigawatts of hidden flexibility for the grid.
Perth-based energy storage and off-grid energy system specialist secures a new private equity investor to boost its home battery, community battery and EV battery recycling plans.
A South Australian trial to turn homes into grid-responsive energy hubs is now 100 households in, and has some brutal lessons to share.
Plans for one of Australia's biggest solar-battery hybrid projects have been waved through the federal EPBC queue just one month after joining it.
A community benefits find will share $50 million across a series of “legacy projects” for communities located along the route of the planned CopperString transmission link.