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Under the new agreement, developed nations will reduce HFCs 85% below current levels by 2036. How will it work?

AEMO report into blackout suggests fall in wind output, caused by an easily fixed "self protect" mechanism, was main cause of blackout. But wind industry says catastrophic fall in voltage as transmission lines fell was biggest culprit. And everyone wonders why AEMO had no plan B.

September 2016 ends a streak of 16 consecutive record-setting hot months in NOAA’s dataset. The run of planetary heat has rewritten the record books.

The two big myths about wind energy, cited by critics as the cause of the South Australia blackout, have been blown away by AEMO report.

Global Wind Energy Outlook report released this week outlines scenarios which show how wind energy could supply 20% of global electricity by 2030.

Grant King takes parting shot at state-based renewable energy targets at Origin Energy AGM, repeating Coalition line that they make transition harder, more expensive.

AGL's new fixed price offer to Victorian households suggests it expects much higher wholesale prices over the next two years.

CEFC CEO Oliver Yates to retire after overseeing $2.3bn in investments and steering Australia's renewables industry through extended periods of policy uncertainty.

A little over six months after I moved into a new home I have installed a combination of rooftop solar and battery storage. It's amazing what a little bit of storage can achieve.

While politicians question renewables reliability after South Australia's blackout, consumer interest in solar and battery storage has spiked.

Coalition campaign against state-based renewables targets – and the deployment of its most potent weapon, policy uncertainty – has reached a new heights over the past couple of months. Could Turnbull trump Abbott?

Elon Musk's EV project was so successful that Tim Cook decided his company should build its own electric car to compete with Tesla. How hard could it be?

The latest Tesla/Panasonic Gigafactory will begin production of cells and modules in 2017 at the firm's acquired Buffalo site in New York.

Wind and solar may be currently leading the way in Australia’s renewable energy race, but there’s another contender lurking in the nation’s oceans.

Newcastle Council wants to build a 5MW solar farm as part of the coal port city's plans to source 30 per cent of its electricity needs from renewables by 2020.

The Kigali Amendment on hydrofluorocarbons tacitly recognises that the hippies were right all along, but lamentably none of the current players have been gracious enough to say so.

Federal resources minister Matt Canavan hoorays Adani job search for coal mine, although it it also looking for someone to further its solar plans.

Tesla and Panasonic have entered into a non-binding letter of intent under which they will begin collaborating on the manufacturing and production of photovoltaic (PV) cells and modules in Buffalo, New York.

An Australian is to take charge of the troubled $100 billion Green Climate Fund, in a move that indicates Australia is not completely out of touch on climate change and renewable energy. But is it developing one language on climate for the international stage, and another for the toxic and partisan domestic market?

Big week for NEM as Hazelwood decision looms. Meanwhile, electricity prices in NSW jump as coal generator goes off-line.