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Just days out from the start of the latest climate talks, PNG-based Oil Search has delivered a slap in the face to its Pacific neighbours.

Investors and activists have new ammunition to encourage public company disclosures on climate change risks and opportunities. They should use them.

Impact Investment Group secures $16.5m from specialist outfit Infradebt for 19MW merchant solar farm in northern Victoria.

Former CEFC boss Oliver Yates says he was ejected from Victorian Liberal Party fundraiser after a Senator presented Treasurer Scott Morrison with a lump of brown coal, in thanks for his work.

Energy Security Board to use vastly inflated costs of wind and solar to justify its National Energy Guarantee. By using prices around 30-40 per cent above actual costs, will support its argument for little new wind and solar to be built in the coming decade.

Australia’s fossil fuel share of electricity generation is higher than that of our peers. This chart is ugly for Australians who care about doing our bit in the 21st century.

Anti-wind resistance appears to win the day as RES Australia confirms Penshurst Wind Farm no longer an ongoing development opportunity.

National Energy Guarantee appears to be a plan to get through the Coalition Party Room, and then a plan to have a plan. Unfortunately, that means many more months of uncertainty.

Elon Musk says Tesla big battery in South Australia now more than 80% complete, but even bigger storage installations likely to follow.

Production line "bottlenecks" at Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory push Model 3 delivery target out 3 months. Musk says, "we've got it covered."

The potential involvement of China state-owned contractors and financiers may help Adani in its push for the mega coal mine in Queensland.

It's not just old coal power plants that are being closed down. In Italy, the US, and the Netherlands, coal plants that are barely teenagers are being targeted for closure.

Energy technology pacesetter Wattwatchers is delighted to announce the appointment of Justine Jarvinen as non-executive Chair. Ms Jarvinen is currently Chief Operating Officer of the Energy Institute at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and her prior corporate roles include Head of Emerging Technologies at AGL Energy. Ms Jarvinen will lead the Wattwatchers Board […]

Rooftop solar has helped push grid demand in Western Australia to its lowest levels in more than eight years.

Billionaires get it. A million households get it. And so do thousands of businesses. So why does Australia's government - and its principal regulators - fail to understand that the way to a cheaper, cleaner and more reliable grid is with more renewables, not less.

Sudden jump in shipping rates from China to Australia is adding 20-30% to costs of suppliers to Australian wind and solar developments.

A web-based interactive map – dubbed the Uber of the electricity market - will help pave the way for a smart and renewable grid.

Human activity, along with a strong El Nino, drove 2016 greenhouse gas levels to new heights with an unprecedented jump in annual emissions.

Giles was awarded the Deni Greene prize, for environmental leadership in a professional capacity, by the Bob Brown Foundation.

Gupta says bigger steel plants in Sydney and Melbourne will go 100% renewable, and there is no reason why an aluminium smelter could not follow.