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Bodangora wind farm in NSW switches on its first turbines.

Australia’s leading clean-tech business accelerator EnergyLab has partnered with Southern Cross University’s Enterprise Lab to launch an Acceleration Program for innovators in the renewable and advanced energy sectors.

A new luxury electric vehicle maker plans to follow footsteps of Tesla in the country that is proving to be the strongest electric car market in the worldwide - China.

Queensland, Victoria and the ACT were quite right to reject the proposed National Energy Guarantee in its present form. To do so now would have been undeserved reward for the destructive actions of former prime minister Tony Abbott.

Global and Australian car and truck manufacturers call for government support to nurture low and zero emissions vehicles and infrastructure.

State energy minister says Victoria and "other jurisdictions" have held off on approval of the NEG prior to its "uncertain passage" through the Coalition party room.

Flow Power to take about half the output from new Queensland wind farm to deliver cheap renewable electricity to corporate customers in that state.

On top of that, the $150 average annual household saving the ESB claims is due to the NEG is illusory, and based on heroic demand assumptions.

German start-up set to roll-out solar PV integrated electric vehicle – a "no frills" low-priced EV with 250km range and enough PV to power 30km/day if the sun's shining.

Amid all the talk of taking Tesla private this week, the CEO has given the world a sneaky look at numbers not often seen in public.

The world’s biggest oil exporter has placed a massive bet on Tesla – the company whose entire goal is transitioning the world off of oil.

The NEG, in its current form, proclaims to halt the energy transition in its tracks. It's a nonsense of course, but Australia needs a policy that recognises the future, not one that pretends to be able to stop it.

Jaguar unveils all-electric I-PACE in Australia, with deliveries set for “fourth quarter”, and reports of “interest” from 2,000-plus potential customers.

2011 Tesla Roadster takes on five high performance ICE vehicles in arduous three-day rally near Perth.

One of the last advantages touted for the hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicle (FCEV) over the battery electric car (BEV) is the speed of hydrogen refuelling vs battery charging.

China’s northwestern Qinghai Province taps internet-of-things to run for seven straight days entirely on renewable energy.

Dr Chris Juttner, says we need nothing less than global action equivalent to the mobilisation for World War Two to keep temperatures below 2 degrees to avoid further climate chaos, and urges Australia to rejoin the battle. 

Given the tremendous benefits of the Obama-era clean car rules, justifying Trump's rollback requires contortions that would qualify the administration for Cirque du Soleil. Here are just a few of them...

CSIRO developed breakthrough method to transport hydrogen in form of ammonia hailed as watershed moment for energy, and big new opportunity for Australia.

The investment certainty business craves will be non-existent until climate action is accepted as the absolute priority in determining energy policy. But achieving this will require political leadership.