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South Korean steel giant POSCO signs lithium off-take and downstream processing deal with ASX listed miner Pilbara Minerals.

The recent results from market heavies provide some insights into the massive cost - to customers - of the incumbents holding onto their market share. 

Xenophon's SA Best predicts 90% renewables in the state by 2030. Although it is not a target, the rush to embrace renewables in South Australia highlights how state-based Liberal Party and the Federal Coalition are being left behind.

SA BEST wants to meet and exceed the Paris commitment, deploy distributed energy, storage and energy management, boost competition, and legislate for power market transparency.

EPYC's proposed 54-turbine Jupiter Wind Farm near Tarago rejected again by state planners, as “fundamentally unsuitable” for the site and surrounds.

Green Switch Australia floats plans to build 47MW solar farm in Wagga Wagga suburb of Gregadoo, in the heart of the electorate of new Nationals leader.

LONGI Solar has achieved a record 23.6% conversion efficiency with its monocrystalline PERC solar cells.

Victoria’s largest energy efficiency expert upgrades to include Solar Energy.

Opposition leader assured environmentalist he would commit Labor to revoking the licence for the controversial coal project, but then faltered

The businessman and environmentalist Geoff Cousins is absolutely unequivocal.

He said the federal Labor leader Bill Shorten called him, just before Christmas last year, looking for help in how Labor might strengthen its policy on the controversial Adani coalmine – and then Shorten followed up several times since, asking to be given more time to convince colleagues to support the shift in position.

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Bee viruses have been found in hoverflies for the first time, raising new concerns about disease threats.

Blind people who use sound to navigate their environment adjust their clicks very similarly to bats, research reveals.

Affordable, 300km plus range electric vehicles are about to hit Australian showrooms. But is there an EV available now or coming soon that will meet your needs?

Victoria regulator finalises decision on Australia's first time-varying feed-in tariffs for solar, although acknowledges risks some users could abuse system by charging batteries at night.

University of Newcastle says 2MW of solar being added to its Callaghan campus this year will slash energy costs and serve as a "living laboratory."

AGL will spend more than $200 million and create 90 jobs during work to upgrade and maintain the coal- fired Bayswater Power Station in Muswellbrook, a key part of our NSW Generation Plan.

Barnaby Joyce had a long history of opposing climate action. His successor Michael McCormack seems to think the same way, despite climate being a growing threat to the Nationals' rural voters. Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The pups were separated from their mother during storms at the end of last year.

Vodafone and Nokia lay out plans to put a 4G mobile network on the Moon in 2019.

Scientists investigate the microbes that survive in the South American desert on very little water.

Record warmth in the Arctic this month could yet prove to be a freak occurrence, but experts warn the warming event is unprecedented

An alarming heatwave in the sunless winter Arctic is causing blizzards in Europe and forcing scientists to reconsider even their most pessimistic forecasts of climate change.

Although it could yet prove to be a freak event, the primary concern is that global warming is eroding the polar vortex, the powerful winds that once insulated the frozen north.

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