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Transforming our energy system may prove far less risky than propping up traditional over-built electricity supply.

"Even if the Energy Security Board gives Malcolm Turnbull a Rolls Royce model of energy policy, it's not going to be of much use to the country if he immediately seeks to put it in the garage and lock it up for 10 years."

Oil "supermajor" Total buys French electricity retailer as part of long-term hedge against threat to oil demand from rise of electric vehicles. And did we mention the CEO totally drives an EV?

New research now reveals the damage that these coral losses caused to the wider ecosystem functioning of the Great Barrier Reef.

Market operator's latest forecasts for the uptake of electric vehicles suggests 10 million EVs, or half the car fleet, in 20 years.

The NEG seeks to obscure the most valuable information obtained from a market – the price of emissions. Needless complexity and cost arises.

Rooftop PV systems can be adversely affected by things outside of a household's control – and without their knowledge. But you needn't be in the dark about it.

SA energy storage outfit 1414 Degrees to provide NSW poultry processing plant with electricity and heat via a 25MWh thermal energy storage system.

A new solar and storage scheme aims to tackle the problem of “power poverty” in Australia head on, by offering low income households around Australia the option to install both solar and battery storage for no upfront cost.

How do you solve a problem like dusty solar panels? Two SA entrepreneurs and a tractor company have created a solution.

The new partnership is aimed at developing and implementing Archer’s graphite and graphene materials for use in energy storage system applications, targeting lithium-ion batteries and potentially generating technologies and patents that have commercial applications in reliable energy.

Alan Jones says Craig Kelly should be energy minister. In effect, he already is, because the Coalition's woeful policy is a craven attempt to pacify the right wing. Despite the NEG, or maybe because of it, a bipartisan approach to energy and climate is as elusive as ever.

The Coalition has been an inexhaustible source of confident declarations that renewable energy faced serious, immediate limitations in scale and cost. Let's fact-check that.

Malcolm Turnbull's weak climate policy is not going unnoticed at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting.

Chris Uhlmann’s tweet is just the latest in a long series of biased reporting on South Australia’s energy transition.

"Humans are underrated": After touting robots, Musk now blames them for Tesla production woes.

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.