RenewEconomy

As parliament reconvenes, it’s timely to reassess the scope for Australia to establish a clear, enduring path to efficiently meet its current and future carbon targets.

Auto industry execs must already know that Tesla is set to deliver, and is set to be a cost-competitive with gas cars.

AGL sees virtual plants in CBD buildings and manufacturing sites, as well as suburban homes, and says Australia will lead the world in energy innovation.

Study published in Climate Journal casts significant doubts on nuclear energy as the answer to combating climate change.

Major insurers have urged governments to commit to phasing out fossil fuel subsides by 2020.

Santos’ estimates of the future oil price makes some very bold assumptions that will test the bullishness of brokers and analysts.

Innovation will be stifled right across the clean energy sector if the Australian Parliament supports legislation to remove future grant funding available from the ARENA.

It’s hard to overstate the bizarre nature of the gas market in Australia.

Risen Energy has announced their scope of operations expansion in Australia.

One week after energy ministers met to consider opening up Australia's gas market, Victoria Labor announces permanent legislative ban on coal-seam gas fracking.

SA family installs state’s first Fronius battery system, adding 6kWh storage to 10kW rooftop solar, with help from Adelaide City Council grant.

Tesla says it doesn’t make economic sense for EVs to send electricity back to the grid, but concedes that “dynamic charging” of EVs at times convenient to the grid is coming.

For the first time, a traditional network company is leveraging non-network solutions to fix an age-old grid problem that used to mean only one thing: more poles and wires.

Data from Australia's solar farms show that utility-scale solar is working better than expected and is a lot more productive than official government forecasts suggest. And most new solar farms should have tracking devices to follow the sun.

A combination of price falls in the international markets, driven by increased scale of manufacturing, and falling costs in Australia, driven by the ARENA tender process, is expected to trigger a major rush in investment in large scale solar projects.

Electricity market volumes and prices jumped on the NEM as a cold snap hit, while Infigen and ERM announced their annual results.

Infigen says securing contracts for renewable projects in Australia still very difficult, with obligated parties "simply passing through" higher costs to customers.

Australia's dirtiest coal fired generators will be given carte blanche to keep on emitting, or even increase their emissions under new baselines.

Labor's NT election win adds interesting dynamic to COAG energy council, adding yet another state government with a RET more ambitious than federal Coalition.

National Grid auction shows growing ability of new and low-carbon flexible technologies, and storage systems in particular, to help "keep the lights on".