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Current estimates suggest 80% of Puerto Rico is still without power, but thanks to Elon Musk’s efforts at least one children’s hospital has been able to turn the lights on.

Here’s a question: how big is the entire power plant fleet in your country compared to the fleet of vehicles?

Three major global investors buy renewable energy portfolio of Equis Energy as big money continues to flood into Asia and Australia renewable market. Meanwhile, in Canberra...

Nissan will become the first Japanese automotive brand to compete in the all-electric FIA Formula E racing championship starting in 2018.

A closer look at Vales Point, and the money made by its new owner Sunset Power; and how to quantify the costs of climate change.

Sonnen to announce first Australian micro-grid, or "SonnenCity", where new housing developments come equipped with solar and storage. It says distributed energy key to slashing electricity prices.

The global electric vehicle revolution will be bottom up, and developing countries like India will lead it.

Emerald Solar Park is underpinned by a long term power purchase agreement with Telstra as offtaker. Reaching financial close marks the first banked transaction in Australia with a corporate PPA from Telstra.

NEG causes market value of one of major renewable energy players to be slashed by analysts, and puts the future of some $50 billion of renewable energy projects in doubt. But it is good for incumbents, because less renewables means higher prices.

The Coalition's NEG - based on hastily prepared advice and zero engagement with the community - shows government has learnt nothing from the social licence issues that have plagued fossil fuel industry.

The NEG is the end of the electricity market as we know it. Effectively, it puts the regulators at the centre of the industry. It is the Australian energy equivalent of “Gosplan”, the State Planning Committee.

LONGi Green Energy Technology Co., Ltd. announced today that Fraunhofer ISE CalLab of Germany certified a photovoltaic conversion efficiency of 22.71% on the company's monocrystalline PERC cell, which is a new world record for this cell type.

Energy Security Board instructed to ignore Paris climate goals as main business lobby group asks for seat at table in talks around proposed National Energy Guarantee. This comes as more confirmation received on hurried and secret proposals, and as Coalition launches another scare campaign about renewable energy costs.

Productivity Commission warns Australia's inevitable shift from petrol fuelled cars to EVs will take a huge chunk out of the federal government budget.

Four charts show that in the global race to build new energy capacity, wind is fast, solar is faster, and batteries will be faster again. Meanwhile, coal power...

Emerald solar farm, Australia’s first large-scale offsite renewables corporate PPA, reaches financial close and begins construction.

Readers of RenewEconomy may find access to the website unexpectedly slow or difficult today, because of measures it introduced to deal with repeated denial of service attacks.

It is difficult not to lapse into despair about Australia’s energy policy morass, which is dominated by a deeply entrenched culture of half-truths, vested interests, ideology and wishful thinking.

Once again, California is leading the way, this time on state contracts for infrastructure, where suppliers work to keep their carbon pollution low.

Last week, a parable of Australia’s energy policy chaos came to light. Not in the bawdy policy debate in Canberra, but in the quietly filed financial reports of a power station owner.