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The Energy Security Board (ESB) should proceed with a complete and detailed design of the National Energy Guarantee following encouraging progress on the high-level design of the policy, the clean energy industry said today.

The Australian Government is pleased to announce new appointments to the Board of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

Signs that federal Labor could "accommodate" the proposed National Energy Guarantee, on the basis that weak emissions targets could be improved later, should be treated with caution.

The government’s decision to open the Northern Territory to the environmental devastation of fracking is short-sighted and will lead to the contamination of water, increased carbon emissions and a myriad of health problems for the people of the NT.

The Electrolux Group announced today it has set two new ambitious targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in support of the Paris climate agreement.

PRESS RELEASE The Andrews Labor Government is delivering action on climate change by helping Victorian organisations lead the development of new ideas to help Victoria reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change Lily D’Ambrosio today announced 24 successful recipients of $4.3 million in Climate Change Innovation […]

ABB trials “futuristic new design” of electric water taxi on Lake Geneva – a "milestone" in the development of zero emissions transport.

Big retailers may be allowed to pocket carbon credits from rooftop solar systems paid for and installed by households.

Ganawarra solar farm connected to grid, with work to begin on a new Tesla big battery to commence within weeks.

ARENA awards $289,725 for Canberra company to design, manufacture and test its rapidly redeployable Container Roll Out Solar System.

The future will not only be electric, but green electric, and the transition will happen a lot quicker than most people think.

Energy Security Board has finally got smart about reliability, and dumped plans promised to conservatives that would try and turn wind and solar plants into "base-load" generators. This is a huge development, and a victory for smart economics, and engineering.

New survey reveals energy efficiency enjoys extremely high levels of public support. But that's not why we should be embracing it.

Elon Musk tells interview Model 3 production has settled at 2,000 a week, should grow "three or four-fold" by Q2 2018.

The redesigned NEG is likely to cause electricity prices to rise before they fall.

Report finds up to $21.5m a year going directly to host communities through wind farm benefit sharing mechanisms; billions to broader regional economies.

NSW has raised $38 billion from energy asset sales, yet has reinvested not a single dollar - despite facing the fact that most of its coal fired power stations will close in the next 14 years.

The deployment of renewables and electric vehicles is expected to skyrocket as the world strives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

New research by a group at UNSW shows that it is theoretically possible for Australia to move to a renewable energy future without blowing its share of the carbon budget.

Coalition refuses to budge on emissions targets for NEG, despite considerable shift on technical details of emissions and reliability obligations from Energy Security Board.