RenewEconomy

With current market prices 2–4 times the costs of generation, our remaining coal fired power stations are making out like bandits.

The Global Solar Council has selected Jodie Roussell to be the Council’s new Chief Executive Officer.

The 2017 Global Cleantech Innovation Index (GCII) shows the Nordic region has the strongest cleantech start-up creation leadership for the first time.

Sungrow has installed PV and energy storage system for five islands in the Maldives where people heavily relied on diesel for power and were plagued by poor power quality and high power cost.

Plans to install a solar, wind and battery microgrid on Lord Howe Island have hit a snag, after an objection to the wind turbines from the federal energy minister.

This week delivered two reviews and one federal court decision... and a thought bubble on energy storage that will almost certainly increase consumer costs.

The Finkel blue-print needs stress testing with real climate targets, a recognition of the shift to distributed generation, a smarter way to think about storage, and an assurance that asset-protecting incumbents will keep their mitts off the mechanism. And it needs to deliver bigger savings on bills.

WA-based Stellata Energy and UK investment group Ingenious to build 120MW solar farm in Merredin, as first of $200m pipeline of big solar projects.

Are electric bikes just an early adopter pipe dream? Are they decades away from dominance?

Distributed energy additions like to overtake centralised plant in 2018, with 320GW large scale fossil fuel plants now not likely to be built.

‘Defer, delay and pray’ appear to be the unspoken new watchwords for the company that would build the Carmichael Coal Project.

A short video to put recent climate change and carbon dioxide emissions into the context of the past 800,000 years.

Since the start of the coalition government in 2010, coal’s role in the generation mix has fallen to historic lows.

The short answer is, not a lot. Finkel promises savings of $92 a year by 2030, but most customer bills are going to jump $300 a year next month. Nothing much will change until utilities can match the cost of new technologies, rather than hiding behind regulatory barriers.

Elon Musk says all Tesla EV supercharging stations are being switched to solar and battery storage – "almost all" will disconnect from grid.

Frydenberg and Turnbull are trying to convince far right that coal will be OK under Clean Energy Target. But the reality is that wind and solar are cheaper, so any serious push to climate targets will spell doom for coal generation.

Finkel's proposed Clean Energy Target could solidify long-term investment in renewable energy, but investor certainty can only be delivered by taking into account the 2°C target.

UPC and Hammond family announce plans for 1,000MW wind farm in Tasmania, and solar and storage.

Landmark report... or 'political agreement to let the planet burn'? A collection of the comments on, and reactions to the Finkel review.

Finkel wants new wind and solar farms to be paired with storage or gas fired generators. Renewables industry says reliability should be function of system, each individual power station.