RenewEconomy

Emissions have increased now for three years in a row, since the repeal of the carbon price. Energy emissions are now at record highs, as revealed by the National Energy Emissions Audit.

uberPOOL app launches in Sydney, giving customers opportunity to cut costs by 50%, and offering "credible alternative to car ownership."

Climate science deniers and conservative media have found a new “free speech” hero — an academic who is suing his own university and thinks the multiple human threats to the Great Barrier Reef are overblown.

New analysis shows that Victoria's electricity supply held up without Hazelwood through a hot summer and avoided over four million tonnes of CO2.

BMW Group unveils all-electric version of iconic 3-door Mini, with production set for 2019 in UK, and plans underway to manufacture in China.

One in eight solar installations include battery storage as the economics improves. SunWiz predicts that 33,000 household storage installations in 2018, with NSW leading the market but the best returns made in South Australia.

Resources minister Matt Canavan says Australian coal will lift the developing world out of poverty; empower First Australians; cut carbon emissions; and catch mice. Let's get digging!

More heartache for Australian EV enthusiasts, after Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at further delays on arrival of "mass market" Model 3 electric vehicle.

This summer, the RERT and demand response enabled Victoria and South Australia to survive without any major blackouts.

Wind and solar farms encouraged to use new technologies like cloud-cam and Lidar and provide their own 5-minute ahead output forecasts.

MinterEllison has advised Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) on its Energy Storing Initiative (ESI) – a funding program that will deliver two large-scale battery storage projects for grid constrained areas in Western Victoria.

This month is an interesting anniversary: the sixtieth anniversary of solar power in space.

Arctic sea ice has experienced maximum extent for the year, reaching 14.48m square kilometers on 17 March – the second smallest in 39-year satellite record.

Simply Energy chooses Tesla batteries for 8MW virtual power plant in Adelaide, now rapidly emerging as a centre for technology that adds to grid security and lowers prices for consumers. Even the Coalition is excited.

This week, site access construction works have started on site for the Cattle Hill Wind Farm, located in the Central Highlands of Tasmania.

Upstart electricity retailers Powershop and Diamond Energy again win 5-star rankings in independent Green Energy Guide. AGL, meanwhile, earned itself an elephant stamp.

Climate policy is a fiendish problem for governments, which is why we need a powerful independent body to call the shots.

Report from global renewables agency REN21 highlights just how dramatic the global energy transition will be, as the cost of wind and solar continue to fall, and storage continues its rapid adoption.

Renewables are making an important contribution to meeting peak demand and therefore addressing reliability, as this data from summer shows.

Renewables paired with storage could see gas peakers become a rarity, only selectively and sparingly used in systems with challenging limitations or localised constraints.