Renew Economy has had a make-over to help you navigate the green energy transition

Renew Economy has had a make-over, at least in appearance. The new web-design revealed today is designed to help our readers – more than half a million unique visitors a month – navigate the green energy transition.

It is the result of feedback from a series of reader surveys that we have conducted in recent years, as well as a thorough UX/UI and user testing audit. Readers told us that they like our content, but often found it difficult to find other stories that could interest them. So we decided to do something about it.

The home page has been redesigned to present more content at a single click, and we have improved our navigation menus to help our readers explore further. We are still ironing out a few bugs, and will make some refinements, but we would be very interested in your feedback.

One of the main features of the redesign is a switch from a vertical stacked layout to a grid layout, which will display articles more intuitively with maximum use of screen real-estate. 

• High interest elements such as Podcasts and Visual Stories are given a prominent space on the page, articles of high interest and engagement are now sorted by category on the homepage, and category labels have been assigned to each article.

W have added new sections such as “Editor’s Picks” and “Most Read” and we have allowed for the Personalisation of content
with an “Articles for you” section on article pages, providing users with articles based off their browsing preferences.

Renew Economy this week celebrates its 12th birthday – my, how time flies – and it still features our two original writers, myself and Sophie Vorrath.

The good news is that the audience has grown significantly, to more than half a million unique visitors a month, and to more than 14 million page views in 2023, despite the spinning off of behind the meter news to our sister site One Step off the Grid and EV news to another sister site, The Driven (which last year had even more visitors and page views than RenewEconomy).

There is a reason for this interest. The climate crisis is real, and people want to do something about it. At RenewEconomy we have been highlighting the pathways of how that can be done, and why the green energy transition is not just a climate and environmental imperative, but an economic one too.

After more than a decade of dealing with governments that refused to believe that this could be the case, it is gratifying that policies are now starting to catch up with the technologies, if not the science.

Still, misinformation abounds – on social and even mainstream media, and the situation is made worse by AI. We’d like to thank all those people and businesses who have supported us, either from simply reading the articles and sharing them, making donations, or advertising and sponsoring our popular podcasts and webinar series.

If you would like to make a donation, please do so here. Sadly, they are not tax deductable. Perhaps you could imagine them as a voluntary carbon offset (and one with proven additionality because Renew Economy does carry some weight in political and policy circles), or simply because you think it is a worthwhile venture.

Warm regards,

Giles and the team.