UNSW solar discovery sets new silicon efficiency benchmark

7 May 2013

UNSW solar engineers have found a way to improve the quality of low-grade silicon, cutting costs and boosting efficiency to…

German offshore wind farm fed 267.8GWh into grid in 2012

7 May 2013

Germany’s first offshore windfarm pilot project, Alpha Ventus, yielded 15.3% more power in 2012 than was originally forecast.

Graph of the Day: Did efficiency drive 75% of US CO2 cuts in 2012?

7 May 2013

Natural gas is touted as the driving force behind America’s declining emissions. But a new study concludes efficiency is the…

Sungevity interview: Stuck in a lift with Gillard and Abbott

6 May 2013

Danny Kennedy, an Australian who founded solar leasing firm Sungevity, explains his solar message for Tony Abbott and Julia Gillard.

UKIP’s dangerous precedent for Australian conservatives

6 May 2013

The sweeping success of UKIP in last week's local elections has implications for Australia. The first is that no policy…

Graph of the Day: Untapped potential of energy storage

6 May 2013

The world's biggest supply chain has virtually no storage capacity. That is about to change, and the energy market with…

Japan’s Fukushima faces long road to repair

6 May 2013

An International Atomic Energy Agency report on Fukushima is expected to make depressing reading – for Japan and for other…

France urged to triple solar PV target to 15 GW by 2020

6 May 2013

French energy agency urges government to treble its national solar PV target for 2020 to 15 GW.

Wisconsin wins coal battle, loses energy war

6 May 2013

Despite abundant wind resources, Wisconsin has been clinging to coal for electrical power generation. Now it looks like a bad…

Lockheed to build world’s first ocean thermal power plant off China

6 May 2013

The US corporate giant will build a 10MW power plant using ocean thermal energy conversion off China’s Hainan Island.

Now we know: Zero emissions power is possible in Australia

6 May 2013

Going to a very high penetration of renewables is certainly not technically impossible, and will not be as expensive as…

Are renewables doomed to failure in Australia?

3 May 2013

WA's new energy minister doubts the fact of climate change, is pro-nuclear, thinks brown coal is clean, hates windmills and…