Sophie Vorrath
Queensland EV company to use 12 of its Australian made fast chargers to create 430km long ‘electric super highway’ extending from Brisbane to Byron Bay.
Giles Parkinson
Ergon Energy looking to “buy back” 44c/kwh feed in tariff in attempt to change household behaviour and avoid need for costly grid upgrades.
Giles Parkinson
China’s climate deal with US means it will install the clean equivalent of a large coal fired power station a week for next 15 years. Meanwhile investment banks lament fossil-fuel exporters Australia and Canada, carbon “ostriches” who are pretending it is not really happening.
Alex Doukas and Athena Ballesteros
Tony Abbott called it a Bob Brown slush fund, but Barack Obama has promised to inject serious capital into Green Climate Fund.
Mridul Chadha
Indian companies are coming up with highly innovative project designs as they aim to get a bite of the expanding solar power market in the country.
John Farrell
A version 2.0 electric utility offers a way for utilities to remain financially solvent, even profitable in a decentralized and renewable energy system.
The Australia Institute
The coal industry is very vocal in promoting energy poverty and pushing coal as a solution to it. But none of the main energy poverty initiatives promotes the use of coal, so the industry does not support them.
Giles Parkinson
The assumption that China coal imports will continue to rise is being shattered by new data showing it has fallen by half, and domestic consumption has also fallen dramatically.
Sophie Vorrath
BZE initiative says households can use energy efficiency and rooftop solar to deliver higher carbon reductions than Australia’s current targets.
Giles Parkinson
Tesla Motors – the transformative electric vehicle manufacturer about to launch in Australia – is looking to use solar for its supercharging network.