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Gas users are concerned legislation to ban unconventional onshore gas development will cause gas prices to continue rising, but how big a role does gas play in Victoria?

China’s largest private investor group is developing a 2 GW solar farm in the Ningxia region which will be made up of some 6 million solar panels.

When catastrophic failures occur, people quickly demand explanations and start to point fingers. Sometimes it's best to check the data.

A predictable reaction to blackout in South Australia was that wind energy would be blamed. Who expected the ABC to lead that charge?

Many households, including Redflow's Simon Hackett, maintained power through blackout with battery storage or off grid systems. Will authorities now look seriously at micro-grids and climate resilience?

Frydenberg continues attack on state-based renewable energy targets, citing Grattan report that claims they are inefficient and too costly. But in the absence of any federal initiative, what choice do the states have?

Carnegie gets grant and funding through convertible notes to put together the world's first micro-grid that combines wave energy, solar and battery storage.

The aviation industry is backing a proposal for a single worldwide standard to offset emissions from international flights.

Team arrow evaluating level of interest in its prototype ‘commercial’ solar car that it plans to road register by second half of 2017.

The rise in interest in autonomous vehicles is just one indication the era of high numbers of personally owned vehicles in US is coming to an end.

The governing body for our energy market, the Australian Energy Market Commission, has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.

The impending closure of the big Hazelwood brown coal generator in Victoria could provide the impetus for the construction of the first large scale solar tower and storage project in Australia.

Qld Court of Appeal sides against climate and with Rinehart, state govt, who argue coal from other mines would substitute environmental damage of Alpha if it didn't go ahead.

World’s biggest solar module supplier JinkoSolar says Australian solar market set for rebound as households adopt battery storage, and large scale sector takes off.

Reports in the local Chinese media suggest that a record-low bid of 0.52 yuan/kWh for solar has been accepted in Inner Mongolia.

72% of Australians believe it is inevitable the country’s current coal-fired power stations will be closed and replaced with renewable energy. The real question is, how should we manage this transition?

Current greenhouse gas concentrations could warm the world 3-7℃ (and on average 5℃) over coming millennia.

China installed a wind turbine every hour and filled a football field full of solar panels every hour last year.

While we don’t know whether Hazelwood will close yet, we do know that Australia could easily replace the energy, and it could make a substantial difference to our carbon emissions.

Prices were mostly unchanged except in Victoria where futures prices jumped 5% amid talk of first big coal closure.