RenewEconomy

An updated study from US and Danish academics says we can electrify the world through using mainly solar, wind and hydro – and for a quarter of the cost of fossil fuels, if you factor in savings from avoided damage to the environment and health.

Elon Musk hails a "phenomenal year" for Tesla, but it is still draining cash as it looks to its next EV model, and extracts itself from production hell on the last.

Australian homes and businesses continue to install solar at a cracking pace in January, adding another 111MW to the 2017 total of more than 1.25GW.

Energy Transition Hub is pleased to launch the OpenNEM project with the ‘alpha’ release of our website and our new widget in RenewEconomy.

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu capable of doubling its wind energy capacity by 2027 and increasing its solar capacity six-fold.

South Australia can show the rest of the nation how to build a 100 per cent renewable energy system to makes people's lives better.

SolarReserve's flagship solar tower and storage project is still falling short of design targets. Does it deserve public money?

Never mind the Roadster in space, Elon Musk says the Tesla big battery in South Australia has exceeded performance targets "significantly," a success that has put a rocket under sales of the company’s commercial-scale Powerpacks.

A commission will decide the timeline for phasing out coal, under a coalition deal agreed between social democrats and Angela Merkel’s conservatives

Results from Australia's biggest coal generator, AGL, shows how coal and gas companies have profited from the surge in electricity and gas prices.

South Australia government provides funding for feasibility studies into four large pumped hydro projects in the wind and solar-rich upper Spencer Gulf.

Redflow has today received in Australia the first battery electrode stacks made by its new Thailand facility.

Having brought 2017 to a close on a comparatively stable note, the VEEC market began 2018 in a far more spectacular fashion. ESC market has also started in a positive frame of mind.

Tasmania's Liberal government promises to boost state energy security with $200k solar and battery storage "microgrid," if re-elected.

With water storages running low, residents of Cape Town get drinking water in the early morning from a mountain spring collection point.

AGL have paid penalties totalling $60,000 in response to infringement notices issued by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).

ICYMI, there's a red Tesla Roadster flying through space, on a billion-year elliptic Mars orbit. Why? Well that's just how Elon Musk rolls.

Windlab's 100MW, $200m Lakeland Wind Farm set to be built south of Cooktown in Queensland, after winning state government approval.

Tilt Renewables to build another SA big battery, next to new solar farm and existing Snowtown windfarm, and a 300MW/1350MWh pumped hydro project near Adelaide.

Responding to growing market demand, LONGi will invest $309 million, including about $240 million in construction investment and roughly $68 million in working capital, to double the capacity of its cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh from 500MW to 1GW respectively.