
The Week: Steroids, floods, Hollywood stars
America's snowless winter, glacier theft, behind Europe's deadly cold and why greenhouse gases are like steroids.

PacHydro sees 14GW of solar by mid 2020s
PacHydro delivers bullish forecasts for solar in Australia, while a new German study reports on massive cost savings from the merit order effect.

CEFC: renewables funding without the risk
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation will need to be as innovative as the projects it supports to avoid a home grown Solyndra.

NOAA measure high CH4 emissions over gas field
NOAA study suggests methane leaks during production may offset climate benefits of natural gas.

Mixed Greens: And now, the electric jet
easyJet goes electric to reduce runway fuel consumption; UK aims for 22GW solar by 2020.
The end of growth: China leads the way
In the second of a three-part series, we look at how how China is hitting the limits of economic growth faster and harder than any other country. Little wonder that they are aggressively pursuing clean technology and other measures to reduce the impacts on the environment and to respond to a limited resource supply.

How to nail Australia’s carbon floor price
The price floor will provide greater certainty for investing in low-emissions assets. But how to marry it with a discounted international trading price?

Mixed Greens: Hybrid solar cells boost efficiency
Hybrid solar cells push efficiency rating to 44%; fashionable designs for solar thermal plants, Canberra unveils energy efficiency grants.

Merkel is a visionary, and we should be grateful
Germany invests heavily in renewables because it believes a low carbon economy is a hedge against energy inflation.

Why we need a big green bank for low carbon transition
Australia will not go it alone if it deploys the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation. The biggest cleantech investors in the world, China, US, Germany and Brazil, are using such institutions with even bigger budgets to underwrite their transition to a low carbon economy.

Mixed Greens: Korea to vote on ETS
South Korea to vote on ETS, wind power surges across globe.

The good, the bad, and the ugly of solar policies
The Solar Flagships saga speaks volumes about the outdated political and energy cultures in this country. At least the solar PV contenders will return with vastly cheaper proposals, while the Solar Dawn consortium can consider itself lucky.
