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Spanish and Australian associations highlight renewables' key role in powering society as COVID-19 lockdowns tighten, with pooling resources and reducing worker travel on the agenda.

Clean Energy Council urges ministers meeting for COAG Energy Council this week to ease grid access and harmonise state clean energy targets and schemes.

Victoria government urged to lift monthly cap on solar rebates after reports that August’s 3,000-plus quota became fully subscribed two hours after release.

Industry body: Urgent review needed for marginal loss factor system causing “unpredictable hits” to the financial viability of PV and others.

Both major parties in the election race for the Australian state of New South Wales have put forward plans focusing on solar and storage for households, with some mixed but mostly positive reaction from the industry.

Australia’s Coalition Party room has signed off on the controversial National Energy Guarantee (NEG) moving it onto the next stage of consultation.

Queensland is currently the leading Australian state for large-scale solar development and is pushing the country towards another record year, according to Clean Energy Council chief executive Kane Thornton.

Australia's National Energy Guarantee (NEG), which has been waived through for a final decision in August, would significantly harm the country's large-scale renewables pipeline, with just 1.5GW expected to be completed by 2025 despite the current 16GW pipeline, according to the head of the country’s solar and storage council.

After a record year for Australian renewables, the Clean Energy Council expects 2018 and 2019 to be even bigger.

Australian Solar Council chief John Grimes has said of the new technology-neutral plan: “It is hard to imagine a worse policy.”