New data has revealed that more electricity was produced from renewable energy sources Australia-wide over the course of 2019 than from gas – a first for the nation’s grids as […]
Tag: renewable energy
Solar, wind and battery storage now cheapest energy options just about everywhere
A new report has shown that large-scale solar PV and onshore wind are now the cheapest form of new-build energy generation across two-thirds of the world’s population. The BloombergNEF […]
Why Big Oil is paying top dollar to dump its fossil fuel – and what that means for renewables
The global oil market crash-landed in uncharted territory this week when the cost of oil in the US went negative, forcing companies to pay up to $US36 ($A57) for […]
Australia can reach 100 per cent renewable energy says CSIRO
The nation’s chief scientific body has advised there are no technical barriers to prevent Australia from achieving 100 per cent renewables on its electricity grid, and that levels of around […]
Victorian government to build Australia’s first grid scale battery storage facility
Victoria’s Labor government is calling for expressions of interest to build a 20MW battery storage array, in what would likely be Australia’s first grid scale battery storage facility. The 20MW […]
Malcolm Turnbull lays out his thoughts on renewable energy in his NPC address
Australia’s prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has laid out his thoughts on renewable energy, electricity pricing and supply, as well as on “clean coal” and gas, describing energy as a “defining […]
Climate conspiracy gets hold of Senate as Coalition attacks coal opponents
Australia’s federal energy minister Josh Frydenberg has attacked “latte-sipping” opponents of coal mining in a day at Parliament that also featured vigorous debate questioning climate science in the Senate. Asked […]
New report exposes myth around Australia’s “cheap energy”
Australia’s wholesale electricity prices have hardly budged in the last few decades, thanks largely to the impact of renewable energy, a new report has shown. The report, the latest of […]
NSW Government announces major expansion into renewable energy
The New South Wales Coalition government has broken ranks with its federal counterpart and announced a major expansion into large and small-scale renewable energy, as well as electric vehicles and […]
Global renewable energy growth hits new record
The global renewable energy industry had a record-breaking year in 2015, according to the REN21 2016 Renewables Global Status Report, with 147GW of renewable generating capacity added worldwide – the […]
Over half of new US generation capacity in 2015 was renewables
More than 60 per cent of new electricity generating capacity brought online inthe US in 2015 has been provided by renewable energy sources, a new report has revealed. The report, […]
Renewables are now mainstream in Germany: Merkel
Now that they account for 25% of Germany’s electricity generation, renewable energy technologies are part of the mainstream, according to Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the first major speech of her […]
Is it time for solar incentives to go?
In the wake of the announcement last Monday, 3 September 2012, that the Victoria feed-in tariff was to be slashed from 25¢ per KWh to 8¢ per KWh many questions […]
Cheapest electricity will come from renewables in 2030: BREE Report
The Federal Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE) has released its Australian Energy Technology Assessment (AETA) report (pdf). The report examines the current and future expected costs of 40 electricity […]
Renewable Energy: Charging Electric Vehicles
How will the transportation of the future reduce its reliance on fossil fuels? Despite all its advantages, one of the biggest disadvantages of photovoltaics (PV or solar power), and most […]
How the new Solar Credit scheme operates (from 10 June 09)
(Some of the information in this entry is out of date: please refer to this newer entry for up-to-date information on RECs multipliers). While the Federal Government created œsolar chaos […]
