
United States of cleantech: Can the US lead the world?
Congress may be divided on climate & energy law, but recent low-carbon advances in America could have major implications for the global economy.

CEFC: Where they stand and who wants what
The debate around the structure and the purpose of the Clean Energy Finance Corporation will be one of the most critical policy debates of 2012. We summarise some of the more important submissions. Meanwhile, concern about the ability to meet the RET may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

And Australia’s cleantech winners are… lawyers and consultants!
Origin Energy slams grants-based schemes, saying they are a boon to lawyers and consultants, but not for emerging technologies.

Germany’s solar schadenfreude
When last week's freak cold snap left France's nuclear plants unable to meet demand, guess who came to the rescue?

Mixed Greens: A battery-powered peak solution?
New claims lithium-ion power storage could challenge nat gas in peaking power by 2016; Tesla faces wider losses.

Renewistan or Carbonopia: where would you rather live?
Critics of the concept of a world run on renewables argue the technology is not up to the task. But what is the alternative?

Tech Focus: Taking on China in solar module market
Tindo Solar is about to open Australia's only solar module manufacturing plant, and take on the Chinese. Are they crazy?

Ignoring forests won’t solve Rio+20’s problems
Forests are essential to all of the major challenges on the table for this year's Rio+20 meeting. So why are they missing from the agenda?

Mixed Greens: Obama’s renewables revival
Obama's 2013 budget revives clean energy agenda; aviation biofuels cost-competitive by 2018?; and Westpac launches Energy Efficient Lease.

Soil carbon: time to bury the emissions problem
UN highlights growing risk of soil depletion to the environment, and to food and water resources, as well as its critical role in reducing emissions. Meanwhile, Australia's Carbon Farming Initiative is likely to getting off to a slow start - and low international prices will not be a help.

Solar energy rules in a state of confusion
Queensland has unveiled a new renewables plan that displays a startling lack of ambition, and raises fears that it might be about to cut its feed in tariff. It also has little hope for solar thermal, geothermal and ocean energy, and reduced its wind forecasts. Meanwhile, the ACT forges ahead with its solar auction, and will help fund it through contracts for difference.

Mixed Greens: UK FiT to fuel Ceramic
Ceramic Fuel Cells welcomes UK FiT boost; world's biggest CSP plant hits construction milestone; and AGL in talks on Loy Yang ownership.
