Time to refloat the Solar Flagships
Australia knows how to stage events, so why can't it build a large solar farm? Blame a lack of political will.
View ArticleNewsflash: Solar costs are falling below fossil fuels
The message for countries looking to develop solar systems is clear: the costs of solar PV are falling by around 45 per cent per year.
View ArticleA tale of two energy visions: China and Australia
Australia's energy White Paper points to a future of digging stuff up and burning it. The contrast with China's outlook couldn't be starker.
View ArticleWhat’s going on with Chinese solar?
Is the Suntech bankruptcy a sign of chaos in China's solar industry, or are we witnessing the birth pangs of a capitalist industry?
View ArticleGreen bond sets Korea apart as global environmental leader
A $500m green bond offer by Korea's Export-Import Bank – a world first – employs the big guns of capitalism to finance cleantech projects.
View ArticleGermany’s energy stock-take: More power to the people
Germany's energy transformation has led to a democratisation of economic power unprecedented in the industrial world.
View ArticleExxon’s Pegasus oil spill – and the myth of US energy independence
The oil industry is spreading cheeriness about unconventional sources, meanwhile, a major US oil-pipe spill went largely unreported over Easter.
View ArticleKeystone XL threatens true American ‘energy independence’
The impending Keystone XL decision will signal whether the US is ready to move from quick profits to investments in renewable technology.
View ArticleHere’s an idea – let’s lead the world and free up cleantech trade
Getting the G20 to commit to free trade in clean technology would do more to mitigate global warming than all the efforts made under Kyoto to date.
View ArticleWant a big idea? Let’s lead the world and free up cleantech trade
Australia has embraced clean technology, but if we want to make a big difference we should help free up cleantech trade.
View ArticleTime for a new global trade deal – on green growth
The next big international trade deals should focus on green growth.
View ArticleTomatoes watered by the sea: sprouting a new way of farming
What if the world's food, water and energy problems were tackled together, cutting costs and making the whole greater than the sum of the parts?
View ArticleTrans-Pacific partnership threatens a green trade deal
The Trans-Pacific Partnership threatens green trade deal that could ultimately do more to reduce carbon emissions than international climate agreements.
View ArticleChile’s mines set hot pace on renewables – Australia should take note
Chile is now emerging as the southern hemisphere’s renewable energy giant, so what can we learn from our Pacific neighbours?
View ArticleWhy cheap oil will NOT wreck the prospects for renewable energy
When oil prices collapsed in the 1980s, most large renewable energy programs were dismantled. But that won’t happen this time.
View ArticleTesla battery heralds beginning of the end for fossil fuels
The launch of Tesla's Powerwall puts fossil fuels on the defensive, fighting the new normal of cheaper renewable supplies and storage.
View ArticleWhy China is becoming a renewables super power, and the West is not
Unless Western countries intervene in their economies to build green energy and resource systems, they will continue to be defeated in this field by China.
View ArticleDesert farms could power flight with sunshine and seawater
What if you could grow biofuels on land nobody wants, using just seawater and sunlight, and produce food at the same time?
View ArticleAn emerging renewables superpower: China’s climate pledge guns for green growth
It’s official. On Tuesday, China submitted its emissions-reduction goals to the UN, in the lead-up to the Paris climate summit in December this year.
View Article50% renewable energy would put Australia in line with leading nations
Bill Shorten's proposed policy for 50% of electricity to come from renewables by 2030 would bring Australia abreast with its international competitors.
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