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It’s time for governments to get serious about helping everyone to join the energy transition, not just the most affluent.

With another 93MW solar added to Australian homes and business in July, Sunwiz declares market to be “level – at exceptionally high levels.”

It may finally be dawning on the PM that it's not wind and solar pushing up cost of electricity, but profiteering of incumbent utilities.

Attempts to suggest coal power is cheaper than the plummeting cost of renewables look increasingly ridiculous and desperate.

Engie and GE commit to 119MW wind farm in South Australia, taking confirmed new wind and solar projects in that state to more than 600MW.

Australia's biggest coal miner and leading research organisation come up with ridiculous claims on battery storage in attempts to justify new coal plants and CCS.

Once, alternative energy meant "clean coal" and "fracking." Today, renewables have left those "alternatives" for dead, and not even Trump can save them.

Google's parent company has joined Tesla and other smaller companies, developing ways to store wind and solar affordably.

This well-timed Australian book offers a step-by-step how-to for businesses transitioning to a more sustainable energy future.

World needs 1.7 Earths to continue as it is. If everyone lived like Australians, we'd need 5.2 Earths.

Tesla puts net orders for Model 3 at 455,000+, as Musk and other employees become first to have solar roof installed at homes.

A new start-up accelerator program dedicated entirely to fast-tracking the commercialisation of innovative energy market technologies and solutions has been launched in Australia.

The new product, available to U.K. online customers, will retail from £3,000 for a standalone battery, or from £6,925 for the solar panel-plus-battery package.

ANU researchers identify 5,000 potential pumped hydro energy storage sites, which they say could support a 100% renewable Australian grid – 35 times over.

Solar PV outstripped coal as the leading source of new electricity generation worldwide last year.

The FBI is investigating an Arizona power company for its role in the election of utility-friendly and anti-solar regulators.

In a dramatic U-turn, Sri Lanka’s energy regulator has approved a new long-term electricity supply plan that rejects the construction of any new coal plants between now and 2037.

Some of Australia's most iconic beers are set to be brewed using solar and wind after Foster's Group and CUB parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev pledged to shift its 6 terrawatt-hours of annual energy consumption to 100 per cent renewables by 2025.

South Australia has given itself the option to cancel the installation of a permanent government-owned gas generators. Given the huge response to ARENA's demand response EOI, and new storage projects, it is hard to see why a new plant is needed once the next two summers are negotiated.

A new legal opinion on climate change and trustee directors’ duties has wide-reaching ramifications for Australia’s $2.3 trillion superannuation industry, Environmental Justice Australia said today.