How Europe’s biggest coal company came to grief – by ignoring change

2 October 2015

The crisis gripping Europe's biggest coal mining company has been brewing for a long time.

VW’s emissions fraud was breathtakingly cynical. But it’s not the first

2 October 2015

The implications of VW's emissions fraud worsen by the day. But, it's not the first. Two big US auto makers…

Coalition to accelerate battery storage in Australian households

1 October 2015

Australian government says it wants to accelerate deployment of battery storage in households, to help reduce peak demand and deliver…

How rooftop solar is changing Australia’s electricity demand patterns

1 October 2015

Generation from rooftop solar is growing quickly and makes a material difference to the apparent trend in electricity demand.

Turnbull says emission trading schemes are “valid”, but he’s not for turning yet

1 October 2015

Turnbull says emissions trading schemes are a "valid mechanism", but Coalition will continue with Direct Action, at least until review…

Whisper it: Quiet wind power with a revolutionary design

1 October 2015

A novel design gets around negative perceptions of wind turbines, and delivers more efficiency.

ARENA to provide $449,000 for Dyesol’s perovskite cell research

1 October 2015

Dyesol gets grant to progress development of perovskite solar cells, touted as a highly efficient and potentially cheaper solar cell.

There is one thing the Coalition can do for climate change that Labor cannot

1 October 2015

Strangely, the one government that can move to depoliticise climate is the Coalition.

Aggregated energy storage has arrived

1 October 2015

US trials suggest economics of battery storage will likely be best when looking at customer-sited batteries that can provide both…

ABB says microgrids with 50 per cent solar do not need storage

1 October 2015

ABB has raised the upper limit for microgrid renewable-energy penetration without storage.

Australia’s weaker emissions standards allow car makers to ‘dump’ polluting cars

1 October 2015

Australia’s lower standards for car exhaust mean overseas car-makers can sell more-polluting cars.

US utility-scale solar averaging five cents/kWh, study finds

1 October 2015

The average contract for large-scale solar energy in US is being negotiated for just $0.05/kWh, according to Berkeley Lab study.