renewables
The recent failure of Solar Flagship projects to meet financing deadlines is simply due to a poor policy process and we’re in danger of repeating the same mistakes with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
Small island states in the Pacific are more vulnerable to oil price changes than most nations, so can renewables reduce the risk?
The world has much to gain through US and Chinese cooperation on clean energy, ensuring the impending ruling on the solar trade dispute will have significant ramifications.
On the cloudiest winter's day in Melbourne, a 15kW rooftop PV system can still produce more power than a household's daily demand. And with the race on to improve efficiency, things can only get better.
With the release of the EC's latest analysis on moving beyond its existing green goals, we look at the scope of the suggested new targets, the implications for the carbon market, and the potential costs and savings for the EU.
The US president's State of the Union address outlined a plan for 'an America built to last,' with a clean energy agenda that would create jobs, lower energy bills, and cut pollution. But will the Republicans help build it?
Clean energy investors watch on nervously as the US wind industry and Germany's solar PV sector become the latest victims of drastic subsidy cuts and phase-outs.
A new paper investigating the health impacts of wind farms has found no evidence of associated increases in illness, reiterating the fact that the shock of the new should not be confused with a new kind of shock.
At the same time as state governments are making it almost impossible for farmers to install clean power-generating wind turbines, they are opening up farmland to miners. What's wrong with this picture?
When will renewables reach a serious level in the world's total electricity mix? It could come down to the performance of solar and the ambitious targets of emerging economies.
Instead of promoting the development of clean affordable energy, the US regulatory process has led to a permitting system that is slow, arbitrary and hampers investment.
The offshore wind industry in Europe is seemingly rebounding, while there's also a dose of good news for the troubled solar sector.