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Australia’s former prime minister talks about the failure of his country’s climate policy, the rise of China and the Carmichael coal mine.

Around the world, energy auctions have tracked the stunning falls in the cost of solar. But in Australia, auction results are not released, typical of a market that trades in ignorance and scarcity, for the benefit of the incumbents rather than the consumer.

Decmil Group signs MOU with Maoneng for development of 250MW Sunraysia solar farm, one of the biggest in NSW development pipeline.

Modelling presented by Energy Security Board in favour of the NEG looks, kindly put, implausible. The old aphorism is that if it looks long it probably is. So why are we building policy around it?

Renew Power Group to build 4.9MW solar farm in South Australia, which will be biggest in the state till bigger projects are completed.

Solar panel system owners are becoming more and more ambitious about what they want from their PV systems, and are now installing 10kW + PV arrays and over-sizing their inverters.

India is powering the growth of solar with its ambitious targets for clean energy and is expected to be ranked as the world’s third largest solar market in 2017. Enphase plans to support this rapid growth with the opening of its Bangalore R&D center.

Market uncertainty created by proposed National Energy Guarantee has caused longer term LGC prices to jump, while STC market worried about oversupply.

Many are now watching to see what impact the battery has on the SA electricity market, and whether it could be a game-changer nationally.

AEMO turns to demand management and its emergency reserve due to problems in gas supply in Victoria last week, and the absence of a major coal unit. This came as conservatives continue to belittle the Tesla big battery and say they hope for a widespread blackout over summer.

Power needed to recharge one Tesla Semi in 30 minutes would power up to 3,200 typical UK homes for one hour.

In the case of life support, blockchain technology could make life better for everyone – improving safety for the sick while saving costs for electricity providers.

The good news is that China has launched the world’s first all-electric cargo ship. The bad news is that it is being used to haul coal.

A total of 120MW of rooftop solar was installed in November, knocking off five year old record set when demand was fuelled by premium tariffs.

The first 50MW of Genex Power’s Kidston solar and “giant water battery” project has started sending electricity to the grid. Here's what that looks like.

Essential Energy decides not introduce power price rises for its more than 800,000 rural customers, after winning a two-year battle to be allowed to do just that.

Genex Power Limited is pleased to announce that, following successful transformer energisation of the Kidston Solar Stage 1 Project, Genex has now generated its first revenue from KS1.

We've looked at the top 20 companies listed on the ASX to see what they actually said about climate change in their latest annual report.

Emerging markets now account for the majority of growth in solar power, according to new data from Bloomberg New Energy Finance .

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