RenewEconomy

To support the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C, Europe will need a CO2-neutral electricity supply by 2045.

First it was the networks, then generators. Now it's the retail arms gouging consumers. A bipartisan review of Victoria's retail electricity market reveals a failed experiment that has delivered the most inflated power bills in Australia.

Construction at the $360 million Mount Emerald Wind Farm near Mareeba reached an important milestone last week when the first of 53 turbine foundations was put in place.

Company to deliver more than 500MW in Australia over the next 12 Months

As long as Australia's energy networks hold on to their inflated asset base, and generators and retailers to their inflated profit margins, consumers will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands with solar and battery storage. But what a hopeless failure in public policy that would be.

A key part of the $386 million Powering North Queensland Plan will commence today.

What's wrong with Australia's biggest wind farm? Victoria's 420MW Macarthur facility was supposed to produce 50% more power than it did last year.

New 50MW Hayman solar farm to go merchant, as US investor BlackRock makes first big move into renewables with two solar farm investments.

Australian company Energy Renaissance says it has "sealed deal" with NT government, locking in Darwin as preferred site for 1GWh lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant.

Here are other climate change-related records that have flown more under the radar, reported in the annual State of the Climate report.

A call to retailers; Information about discounts will be simpler, but you’ll still have to do the legwork to shop around.

You can make a battery out of a lemon, a tomato, an orange or a stack of pennies. And now you can make a battery using spit.

RCR Tomlinson Ltd is pleased to announce that it has been awarded two contracts for the 150MWac Daydream Solar Farm and the 50MWac Hayman Solar Farm, developed and maintained by Edify Energy Pty Ltd.

AGL says new coal plants not economically rational; facilities like Liddell will be replaced by wind, solar, batteries, pumped hydro and other firming capacity.

Origin signs 13-year PPA for output of edify Energy's 150MW Daydream Solar Farm in Queensland – one of the state's biggest.

ARENA, AEMO trial testing 100MW Hornsdale 2 wind farm capability to supply grid stabilising services to NEM slated for October.

US EV and battery maker opens new retail store at Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley, with show room, service centre and four EV super-charging bays.

AGL's multi-billion investment in coal generators, and the recent investment drought in new wind and solar plants, have delivered windfall gains to the country's biggest generator. It also increased its margins from consumers, despite its offer of discounts.

Solar hot water company Apricus inks distribution deal for US “ice battery” + air-con technology that could cool Australian homes, and cut power bills.

IMF says subsidies to global fossil fuel industry reached $A6.7 trillion in 2015 - or $A18 billion a day, or $A12 million a minute.