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New modelling predicts India is within a decade of peak coal demand for the power sector. This is sooner than anyone has predicted.

In the final week before an election, the biggest-selling newspaper in the Australian state of Queensland screamed a front-page headline that cut into one of the poll’s most divisive issues.

So long solar. NEG design assumes no large scale solar investments in Australia for at least eight years - despite recognition that large scale renewables responsible for most bill reductions.

Corporate leadership, individual excellence and energy efficiency innovation have been recognised and awarded at the National Energy Efficiency Awards 2017.

New modelling confirms little if any new renewable energy investment will be made under the NEG. But it reveals that the big savings the Coalition is claiming from the NEG are driven almost entirely by the policy it sought to kill - the renewable energy target.

If Australian tax payers are made to cough up for a new coal plant in north Queensland, locals will also be coughing up – literally.

New report says LNP and One Nation support for uneconomic coal fired power station would force prices up in Queensland, and add to system security risks.

With the Tesla truck, Elon Musk has torn down the final frontiers of the campaign against the clean energy transition: cost. And it matters little whether Tesla itself can pull it off – it has already turned two trillion-dollar industries upside down.

BNEF report names Australia among 8 countries to lead global energy storage boom, with market forecast to double six times over between now and 2030.

ACCIONA has appointed Brett Wickham as the new Managing Director of its Australian energy business.

Spain is the latest example of governments intervening in power markets to prop up gas, coal and nuclear power, including capacity and “grid reliability” payments.

Conservatives says new report on battery storage is just "eco-evangelism". This is what chief scientist Alan Finkel said in response.

As part of a $48 million project, Ethtec aims to construct a $30 million purpose built pilot-scale facility based in the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.

Frydenberg defends lack of solar panels, saying Cory Bernardi has them, and didn't sign up for Paris climate target. Say what?

Simon Hackett puts his name down for a new Tesla Roadster, saying it will prove supremacy of electric driven transport over burning fossil fuels. And prove Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson wrong.

Failure of another coal power unit in Victoria's Latrobe Valley has prompted the market operator to warn of supply shortages – and it's not even summer yet.

Schott scolds government for "spitting the dummy" on Clean Energy Target, but defends design of NEG, saying it clear that more renewables have weakened energy system.

If the Corvette is the halo car for Chevrolet and General Motors, the new Roadster will be the halo car for Tesla.

Federal Government is something of a lame duck and, in our view, lacks moral authority in the area of energy policy.

Report finds combination of wind power, smart controls and energy efficiency would cost $2.2bn over five years, while keeping Liddell coal plant open would cost $3.6bn.