RenewEconomy

IKEA customers in France can now hire an electric vehicle from the store’s car park, to transport all of the Swedish furnishings, in car share deal with Renault.

Driven by favourable economics and additional benefits including carbon reductions and social license, major and mid-tier Australian mines are adopting renewables.

At least one country is rising to the occasion.

Data released by ABS today shows a boom in renewable energy construction to meet the 2020 Renewable Energy Target is driving jobs growth and creating new employment opportunities, said business and energy experts.  

All-electric Renault ZOE judged ‘Best Green Car’ at the inaugural FirstCar Awards 2018 in London.

First blockchain virtual micro-grid in Australia will use solar and storage to allow 200 dairy farms, 100 households and 20 businesses to share energy.

An increasing number of Australian small and medium businesses are using solar and battery storage to go off-grid. But is it worth it? Here's what one Queensland company has found.

Redflow seeks new funds to scale up production and target markets in Australia and overseas. It is also contemplating move into China.

Report identifies four key markets that have so far been overlooked in Australia's rooftop solar boom – a 7GW gap that could be worth nearly $9bn to the (so far) very small number of canny start-ups that are working to find their way around the barriers.

Horizon Power welcomes the appointment of Stephen Edwell as the new chairman of Horizon Power and Kylie Chamberlain as a Non-Executive Director.

Legendary ice cream makers Ben & Jerry’s and climate activism group 350.org Australia, have today launched a campaign to freeze fossil fuels by encouraging Australians to lobby their local Councils to divest from coal, oil and gas.

In response to growing demand from Australian institutional investors for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment options, State Street Global Advisors, the asset management arm of State Street Corporation (NYSE:STT), in partnership with MSCI, has created a low carbon, high ESG international equities fund.

Goldwind Australia today announced it has made another step forward towards construction of the 150 megawatt (MW) Moorabool North Wind Farm (The Project), located in Victoria. Moorabool North Wind Farm project is the northern section of the 321 MW Moorabool Wind Farm.

Staunch combustion engine purist Ferrari is changing its tune, testing a hyrbid sports EV, and promising a "world's fastest" hybrid SUV in 2020.

This achieves a new world record for the highest power 120-cell half-cut monocrystalline PERC module, adding to LONGi's world record for 60-cell monocrystalline PERC module for power and conversion efficiency.

Westpac joins growing corporate push into wind and solar with a tender for 150GWh of renewable energy. It's cleaner, and cheaper!

For a Queensland household electricity bill with network charges of $1,000, the Queensland government profits from the networks amounts to $470.

20MW solar farm that will produce power for crypto-currencies approved for the coal town of Collie in Western Australia.

Ever get the idea that the quitting the grid was reserved for low energy users, austere consumers or those unable to connect? Think again.

Industry reports suggest more and more Australian households are choosing to quit the grid, and they're doing so for a mixed bag of reasons.