George Heynes

LGI, an Australian landfill gas and renewables company, has agreed to buy two operating solar PV power plants in Queensland.

Researchers at UNSW and UtmoLight have achieved a certified stabilised efficiency of 23.5% for a large-area perovskite solar submodule.

Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation (YEC) has lodged the DA for the Baru Marnda Renewable Energy Project, featuring a 500MW solar PV power plant.

Australia's utility-scale solar and wind assets generated a combined 5.44TWh across the NEM in September 2026.

Australia's NEM recorded a combined 4,780GWh of solar generation in September 2026: 1,805GWh from utility-scale and 2,975GWh from rooftop.

In this contributed blog for PV Tech, Dr KT Tan, CTO of Viridian Solar, argues that DC connectors, though among the cheapest components in a PV installation, sit in the same dangerous blind spot as the low-cost parts blamed for catastrophic engineering failures like the Challenger and Columbia disasters.

AEMO said a record 9.1GW of new renewable energy and storage capacity connected to the National Electricity Market (NEM) in FY26.

ESR, a Singapore-headquartered real asset owner and manager focused on logistics real estate and data centres, has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of Aquila Clean Energy APAC.

ARENA has committed AU$25 million to Equans Solar & Storage for a three-year programme testing construction and operations technologies.

The NSW government has opened a consultation on what it describes as Australia's first mandatory solar module recycling scheme.