RenewEconomy

"Get used it". That was the simple message to energy incumbents highlighting rapidly changing "energy paradigm" in Australia and across the world from baseload power to "flexible generation".

Clean Energy Regulator says Australia on track to meet 2020 RET, driven by large-scale solar boom.

Renewable certificate prices fall despite looming shortfall, as some suggest retailers may choose to pay penalty price rather than make new investments.

Musk taunts short sellers after Tesla stock surges and overtakes Ford Motor Co in market value.

Herbert Smith Freehills has advised Infigen Energy on the development of the Bodangora Wind Farm near Wellington in New South Wales.

The CEFC has financed more than 1,000 specialist energy efficiency projects undertaken by a broad range of small businesses, topping $150 million in CEFC investment.

Report finds 71% of the experts consider global transition to 100% renewables both feasible and realistic.

The South Australian government's ground breaking battery storage tender has generated a huge response from interested parties, with more than 90 proposals submitted in the first fact-finding round, indicating the massive possibilities with the technology.

The IEA is using unrealistic assumptions about emissions and CCS to keep coal and oil in the picture.

Wastewater treatment plants are energy hogs. But a number of new technologies are promising to change this.

It's hard to imagine that even a satire writer could write such a stupid script as the government's recent energy policy announcements.

LG Electronics is further investing in Australia’s solar market through the introduction of the LG NeON® R solar panel.

ARENA says battery storage as cheap as pumped hydro - for smaller storage projects. But both will be needed in a high renewable grid.

Contracts for large scale solar farms in Australia heading to $70-75/MWh for projects starting construction in 2018.

Infigen Energy today announced that it would proceed to construction of the 113.2 MW Bodangora wind farm in NSW.

Australia’s residential electricity prices are amongst the highest in the world so it’s not hard to see why customers have been up in arms about high prices.

New AEMO boss Zibelman suggests paying consumers for solar and storage services to get rid of "super peaks" and lower costs.

Senator Nick Xenophon expects the deal he struck to pass the federal Coalition’s tax cuts on Friday should guarantee that Australia’s first large scale solar thermal plant begins construction before the next election. Xenophon got the Coalition government to deliver on its pre-election promise of facilitating solar thermal by agreeing to “fast-track” the tender process […]

The Coalition commits to $110 million in concessional loans to solar tower and molten salt storage project in Port Augusta, as part of last minute negotiations with the Nick Xenophon Party to pass major tax cuts.

New CEFC head interested in solar, storage and demand response; does not see "clean" coal as investable for "many reasons that will not change."