RenewEconomy

Electricity is just a symptom of the perils of populous governments. The only solution is to nationalise the lot.

Australians are used to seeing politics switch to vaudeville when it comes to climate policy. This year we’ve been treated to a new farce.

Belectric plans two more small solar farms by end of year after completing first with new, low cost installation system.

Turnbull caves in to fossil fuel lobby push for more "continuous power" and asks AEMO to assess needs of the grid. "It would be good to have a state of the art clean coal plant in Australia," he said.

All Ice Energy products now available in Australia exclusively through Apricus.

Australian Technologies Competition shortlists 32 of Australia’s “most exciting” tech companies, including an EV charging outfit, a solar thermal solutions company, and an energy monitoring specialist.

Scarce public finance should invest in generation assets of the future, not relics of the past at risk of being stranded.

Drought on wind and solar investment orchestrated by previous conservative state government now likely to be broken, with more than 1000MW of projects lined up.

Lyon Group announces another huge solar plus storage project, this time in Victoria, and unveiled plans to tender for contracts for battery services to underpin the investment and finalise the design of its three major projects.

Were green targets to blame for the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy? Murdoch columnists in Australia say so, but here's a debunk to this ugly nonsense.

In the past week, future prices fell again in all states. The downtrend is now firmly established and prices in the out years are significantly lower than in 2018. That’s particularly noticeable in Victoria.

Billed as a "once in a generation" opportunity to bring Australia's energy market into the 21st Century, the Finkel Review is rapidly being reduced to absurdist arguments about the lights going out – by the very government that commissioned it. So much for Grid 2.0.

Scott Pruitt's official schedule shows that his door remains open to fossil fuel industry, and BHP has been among those thanking him for his "leadership".

It's not clear that there is a sufficient reward to justify much new investment in storage and firming capacity, given the presence of Snowy, Tas Hydro, and existing gas and coal generation.

For the first time, wind and solar exceeded 10% of total electricity generation in the US for the month of March.

Report finds 5kW-plus rooftop solar systems offer best bang for buck, no matter household energy profile – even if all generation exported to grid.

Tesla to deploy multiple 250kW/500kWh Powerpack systems for NSW network operator TransGrid, to help store and smooth solar supply.

Climate Council report says “clean coal” won't meet Australia's most basic climate obligations – and would need electricity prices to rise four-fold to earn sufficient revenue to be viable.

AEMO report shows rooftop solar reducing and shifting peaks, and likely to gather pace as costs fall and grid prices rise.

Regional and remote Australia’s leading advisory and technical consultancy firm, CAT Projects, announced that from today the company will be trading as Ekistica.