RenewEconomy

Victoria solar households to get big lift in payments for exports to the grid, but Greens say households still being sold short.

So what could possibly be wrong with Malcolm Turnbull's sweeping vision of energy security, steeped in coal and gas? Well, pretty much everything.

Will regional communities come out winners in Labor’s transition to a net-zero emissions economy? “Yes, no, maybe” if you listen to Shorten. It’s no wonder regional voters are confused.

Co-founder of Eden Project wants to bring the concept to Hobart, in co-operation with MONA art gallery and Australia's science community.

The crisis continues Although electricity consumption and pool prices fell sharply this week due to more moderate weather, 2018 base load futures rose another 5%. That’s three weeks in a row prices have risen 5%  and FY18 futures prices have now cracked the $100 MWh mark in all States ($99 MWh in Victoria). Prices in […]

In every State no more than 2 players account for more than 50% of generation market share. That doesn't encourage competition and is pushing up prices.

Supporters of carbon capture plants on coal power stations are seeking to sell the story they are cheaper than renewables – despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The EIS proposed by Labor and others is a wasteful rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul scheme designed to favour gas, and which will lift energy prices more than they need be.

New book outlines how the Magritte Group - a fossil fuel lobby - has tried to destroy climate and renewable energy policy in Europe.

A crucial decision on a rule change that could have a critical impact on the future of battery storage in Australia has been delayed again by AEMC.

New study by ANU suggested a 100% renewable energy grid, with 90% of electricity coming from wind and solar, will be cheaper than a coal or gas-fired system in Australia.

AEMO's use of private weather forecasters, and not Bureau of Meteorology, likely contributed to SA's recent weather-related blackouts.

Global battery storage companies prepare to fight proposed Australian standards that could effectively ban battery storage from homes and garages, and put major dent into Australia's claims of being first mass-market for the technology.

Adelaide-based ZEN Energy renews calls for electricity market rule changes as it reveals plans to develop a between 50-150MWh battery storage project in SA.

An important new report issued overnight in London has demolished the assumption that forest biomass should be considered a carbon-neutral source of energy.

Coal’s long term prospects do not look good in the US, or for that matter anywhere else

How can a Trump Presidency be positive? Surely this is a major setback for action on climate change, inequality, human rights and global security?

With high gas prices partly to blame for the electricity blackouts that hit SA this month, and gas-fired generators caught short in NSW two days later, there are calls for Australia’s onshore gas to flow much more freely.

ERM and Alinta top list of retailers failing to meet RET obligations in 2016. Their combined shortfall could have supported nine 100MW solar farms in NSW.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten has accused the Coalition government of policy vandalism on energy, and committed to an emissions intensity scheme that he insists will deliver Labor’s target of 50 per cent renewables in the country’s electricity system by 2030. In a landmark speech at the Bloomberg headquarters in Sydney on Thursday, Shorten said Australia should […]