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Australian researchers who unboiled an egg are turning their focus to making a more efficient alternative to lithium-ion batteries.

Malcolm Turnbull now appears perfectly comfortable parroting right wing nonsense about energy policy, branding high renewable policies as "idiocy" and defending the future of coal. That may be because mainstream media won't challenge him.

A post-election cabinet reshuffle has delivered a new energy minister for Queensland. Here's what we know about Dr Anthony Lynham.

The CEFC is helping demonstrate the diverse potential of energy efficiency programs by helping finance clean energy improvements to two Adelaide buildings.

Commercial development of cheap, printable, Australian made perovskite solar cells boosted with $6m ARENA grant to Greatcell Solar.

AEMO relaxes limits on wind generation in South Australia as it continues to review system strength needs of the grid with the highest penetration of wind and solar in the world.

New Australian solar developer, Oriens Energy, announces plans for 80MW solar farm in Tamworth, with more projects in the pipeline.

Critics have argued renewable energies could come with high hidden greenhouse gas emissions that would negate their benefits to the climate. A new study shows the opposite is true.

The recent upsurge in the price of Bitcoin seems to have finally awakened the world to the massively destructive environmental consequences of this bubble.

Consumers should be doing a lot better out of the closure of Liddell - and the inevitable closure of other coal generators. But they need governments to act to encourage the efficient use of energy.

AEMO boss Audrey Zibelman says energy transition as unstoppable as the internet, because economics and technology have changed. Some baseload may be needed in the future, but it doesn't need to be coal.

Solar Analytics evolves from a solar monitoring platform to a holistic Smart Home Energy Management System with the announcement of a $1.9 million grant from the Australian Federal Government.

The Flinders Island community can look forward to a secure and cleaner energy future thanks to its new Hybrid Energy Hub.

Construction begins on first 60MW of proposed 1200MW Kennedy Energy Park, the world-leading wind, solar, and battery storage project in north Queensland.

CCA review of Coalition's Emissions Reduction Fund fuels concerns the scheme is an expensive, inefficient and risky way to cut carbon.

AGL's plans for Liddell are vague and lacking, most likely because the company is waiting to see what the Coalition aims to do with Snowy Hydro.

China-Australia renewable energy firm lands PPA with AGL for construction of 300MW of large scale solar - the biggest contract so far in Australia.

AGL confirms plans to invest in 1.6GW of wind and solar, plus storage and other technologies, to replace the ageing coal clunker, Liddell, which it will close in 2022, much to the annoyance of the federal Coalition.

2017 has been a year of records for Australian solar power, and the year's not even finished yet. Here are 10 of the highlights so far...

New research shows a sharp, and rising, difference in the value of property likely to be affected by climate change impacts such as rising sea levels.