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Coordinated by environmental finance group Market Forces, shareholders in Origin Energy have filed a series of resolutions with the oil and gas major.

Murdoch media's "Monkey's uncle" thinks solar towers and storage are intermittent. But its performance during eclipse shows otherwise.

CEFC extends $90m corporate loan to Cleanaway, its first major transaction with a leading Australian waste management company.

Forecasts for solar PV installations in China for 2017 rise to 40-45 GW.

Nissan says its next-gen model LEAF – still the world's most sold all-electric vehicle – will be unveiled September 9.

Solar on U.S. homes and businesses will grow 10% a year, displacing $2 billion of grid-based power by 2025. But Australia leads the way.

Andrews government unveils first of renewable energy auctions – for 650MW of wind and solar – and announces two new big solar farms, the 100MW Bannerton Solar Park near Robinvale in the Sunraysia district, and the 38MW Numurkah Solar Farm near Shepparton.

Last week, it was claimed EV's are responsible for more global warming emissions than petrol cars, suggesting Tesla isn’t a ‘green’ company.

ARENA funds 30MW battery to be built in South Australia to help grid security, and be the first of a series of renewable-based mini-grids to keep the lights on.

BOC will support CSIRO during its $3.4 million ammonia to hydrogen cracking and membrane purification project that is set to revolutionise the global supply chain for hydrogen.

Are Australia's wind farms living up to expectations? Why the market preferred Origin's results to AGL's; and a dive into the Windlab prospectus and its "busload" wind and solar plant.

Changes to the draft Australian Standard for installing home battery units are essential, but it is also important to ensure appropriate technical standards are in place to ensure consumers are protected, the Clean Energy Council said today.

Major renewable energy tender announcements expected from Victoria, along with more details of state renewable energy target architecture.

California's solar-centric grid manages eclipse without a hitch. In Australia, preparations already being made for 2028 eclipse.

Solar pioneer Martin Green says solar PV will fall to $US10/MWh within a few years, but this will be good news for Australia's mining industry because the fall in Australia's thermal coal exports will be offset by a factor of more than 5 by demand for other resources.

Energy market rule maker backs down on proposal to charge solar households to export excess PV generation back to the grid.

South African power utility Eskom recently repeated that it will not conclude supply contracts with developers of new renewable energy power stations.

A Brisbane-based energy technology startup Redback Technologies plans to double its current workforce of 54 over the next six months.

More details emerge of the contract for the Port Augusta solar tower and storage project, and why it means huge change for energy markets, and a shift of focus from "base-load" fossil fuel to clean, flexible capacity built around "base-cost" renewables.

Clean Energy Regulator continues rooftop solar crack-down, this time taking action against "unaccredited" individual installer.