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Victorian state government becomes Australia's first to join green bond market with $300m issuance to finance low-carbon investment.

Report finds Australia going backwards in energy efficiency, due to particularly poor performance in transport and industry.

We need policies that will push harder to help large-scale clean energy technologies reach the necessary level of commercialisation and integration.

While 2016 has gotten a boost from an exceptionally strong El Niño, the record temps are mostly the result of accumulating greenhouse gases.

Lux Research report highlights oil's dominant position, fails to note electric cars are better vehicles in "almost every way."

The Australia Institute says gas are generators are driving "obscene" power price spikes by choosing to exploit an energy market failure, rather than fulfil their role of complementing renewables.

Front page "exclusive" on The Australian about wind energy is so spectacularly wrong that it might make you laugh, were it not for the fact that so many conservatives swallow this tripe.

Solar power and battery storage are already challenging conventional electricity generation and distribution models. This transition to clean energy is happening in spite of government policy, not because of it.

Regulator report highlights monopolistic gas industry behaviour SA trying to fight. And where did 3,200MW of coal capacity go?

NRG Energy has completed installation of America's largest rooftop solar array: an 8.3MW system on MGM Resort's Mandalay Bay Convention Centre in Las Vegas that will supply 25% of the entire resort and casino complex's electricity.

ACT opens $2m pilot program to provide access to solar rooftop to those households least able to afford it – or high electricity bills.

Engie may have put its Australian assets up for sale, including Hazelwood. Would AGL be interested in an asset swap and replace an ageing gas plant with renewables?

He's been dubbed Mr Coal and talks up nuclear, but chances are Australia's new energy and environment minister knows the future lies in renewables. The question is can he, or does he want to, convince his conservative peers he should be allowed to take this path?

Victorian Labor underlines support for wind energy development, as a boon to regional economies and a key climate action.

Australia has much to gain from strong and sound electric vehicle policies.

Australian group plans a 100MW solar project with up to 40MW of battery storage at the edge of the grid in South Australia, plus other projects.

Electricity retailers make their biggest margins in South Australia, the state at the centre of controversy over energy prices. And retail margins in many states have jumped 50 per cent.

Turnbull names pro-nuclear Josh Frydenberg to head combined energy-environment portfolio, climate denier Matt Canavan to head resources.

The weekly round up of the electricity market. Plus: What if both Hazelwood and Portland closed down?

The price spikes that hit South Australia were once common place in Australia, but have now all but disappeared since the build out of wind and solar. But the conservatives don't want to know.