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Auto industry execs must already know that Tesla is set to deliver, and is set to be a cost-competitive with gas cars.

AGL sees virtual plants in CBD buildings and manufacturing sites, as well as suburban homes, and says Australia will lead the world in energy innovation.

Study published in Climate Journal casts significant doubts on nuclear energy as the answer to combating climate change.

Climate and solar scientists feeling compelled to enter the political process in a way not seen a generation ago. We discuss why.

Major insurers have urged governments to commit to phasing out fossil fuel subsides by 2020.

Santos’ estimates of the future oil price makes some very bold assumptions that will test the bullishness of brokers and analysts.

Innovation will be stifled right across the clean energy sector if the Australian Parliament supports legislation to remove future grant funding available from the ARENA.

It’s hard to overstate the bizarre nature of the gas market in Australia.

Risen Energy has announced their scope of operations expansion in Australia.

Activists and farmers hail decision after inquiry into onshore unconventional gas received 1,600 submissions

Victoria is to introduce a permanent ban on all onshore unconventional gas exploration, including fracking and coal seam gas, becoming the first Australian state to do so.

The premier, Daniel Andrews, made the announcement on Tuesday morning and said legislation for the ban would be introduced later this year, making the current moratorium on unconventional gas exploration permanent.

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Thirty years ago, India discovered the dreaded HIV virus had reached its shores when blood samples from six sex workers tested positive.

Can an algorithm turn you into an efficient sock-sorting machine?

Air pollution in UK cities has failed to improve because politicians prioritise road safety and economic growth instead, research suggests.

One week after energy ministers met to consider opening up Australia's gas market, Victoria Labor announces permanent legislative ban on coal-seam gas fracking.

SA family installs state’s first Fronius battery system, adding 6kWh storage to 10kW rooftop solar, with help from Adelaide City Council grant.

COLD CASE: One of the world's coldest cases may have finally been cracked - human ancestor 'Lucy' died after falling from a tree, according to detailed scans of her 3.18-million-year-old bones.

Tesla says it doesn’t make economic sense for EVs to send electricity back to the grid, but concedes that “dynamic charging” of EVs at times convenient to the grid is coming.

For the first time, a traditional network company is leveraging non-network solutions to fix an age-old grid problem that used to mean only one thing: more poles and wires.

Data from Australia's solar farms show that utility-scale solar is working better than expected and is a lot more productive than official government forecasts suggest. And most new solar farms should have tracking devices to follow the sun.

There is a battle under way near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, over plans for a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline. The North Dakota Access pipeline will run just outside the formal boundary of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, and tribal members fear it will pollute local drinking water and disturb sacred sites

• Faces of the North Dakota pipeline protest: ‘Sacred land is who we are’

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