Australia
Bridie Schmidt is lead reporter for The Driven, sister site of Renew Economy. She specialises in writing about new technology, and has a keen interest in the role that zero emissions transport has to play in sustainability.
Oversupply and an emissions profile not much better than coal are putting US$1.3 trillion in new LNG export and import infrastructure at significant risk of becoming stranded, new report...
Australian Federal Government Climate Governments
Australia grilled on emissions at Bonn – fires back with single slide, dodgy accounting
Australia has told a UN meeting it won't lift its emissions reduction targets, nor introduce new climate policies, while hiding its growing emissions.
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CSIRO, NAB chair say shift to 100% renewables inevitable, and likely by 2050
Report led by CSIRO and backed by NAB says 100 per cent renewables in Australia is inevitable, and will likely slash bills by more than half under an ambitious...
Governments News & Commentary Renewables Solar
Vestas, CWP get serious about plan to export 3GW wind and solar to Asia
Sceptics might call it crazy to run a clean power ‘extension cord’ all the way to Indonesia, but the ELEXI plan to export Pilbara generated renewable energy to Asia...
Australian Federal Government Climate Governments News & Commentary
Australia wins early Fossil award as Syria leaves US alone on climate
Australia wins first Fossil of the Day award at Bonn climate talks, as Syria signs up to leave the US isolated as the world's only non-member state.
Australian Federal Government Featured Governments Renewables Victorian Government
Is this the end for big wind and big solar in Australia?
All eyes are on Victoria and the corporate sector for the future of large-scale renewables in Australia. With the renewable energy target now largely met, there is little else...
Australian Federal Government Governments News & Commentary
Australia among the world’s worst on biodiversity conservation
Australia is among the top seven countries worldwide responsible for 60% of the world’s biodiversity loss between 1996 and 2008, according to a study published last week in the...
Markets News & Commentary Smart Energy
Energy consumers are paying for useless, profit-boosting infrastructure
It is difficult not to lapse into despair about Australia’s energy policy morass, which is dominated by a deeply entrenched culture of half-truths, vested interests, ideology and wishful thinking.
Australia's installed solar PV capacity set to double in three years, according to latest APVI data, as the big solar market gears back up.
Climate News & Commentary Renewables
Australia ignores risks, shirks moral responsibility on climate
Climate risks are either not understood or wilfully ignored at leadership level in Australia, a profound failure of imagination, and far worse than that which triggered the GFC in...
