Solar on U.S. homes and businesses will grow 10% a year, displacing $2 billion of grid-based power by 2025. But Australia leads the way.
More details emerge of the contract for the Port Augusta solar tower and storage project, and why it means huge change for energy markets, and a shift of focus from “base-load” fossil fuel to clean, flexible capacity built around “base-cost” renewables.
Unlike yesterday’s chart on gas, today’s graph shows wind has the opposite effect – more output takes power prices lower.
Today’s SA chart illustrates the simple fact that as gas power increases penetration in the state, the electricity pool price climbs higher.
How hard will climate impacts in China hit Australia’s economy? It’s a question for the Senate inquiry into national security implications of climate change.
Listed New Zealand company Contact Energy Ltd (CEN) has gained Climate Bonds Certification of geothermal assets as part of its new Green Loan Borrowing Programme for NZD1.8bn.
Federal treasurer says cheap new coal power a “myth”, federal energy minister says it must be considered – even if the market disagrees.
Market Forces will lodge a new shareholder resolution against Commonwealth Bank after its climate change position statement released today fell well short of its publicly-made 2 degree commitments.
The president promised a surge of jobs and tax revenue from oil. His policies won’t deliver either one.
To support the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting temperature increase to 1.5°C, Europe will need a CO2-neutral electricity supply by 2045.
Here are other climate change-related records that have flown more under the radar, reported in the annual State of the Climate report.
