After years of being derided as a joke by car manufacturers and the public, interest in electric vehicles has increased sharply as governments around the world move to ban petrol and diesel cars.
We have
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‘Renewable energy breeding’ can stop Australia blowing the carbon budget – if we’re quick
Moving to a future powered mainly by renewable energy will be crucial if we are to stay within the global warming limits set out by the Paris Agreement. But building all of this new renewable energy will
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Research program kicks off with big investment
NERA (National Energy Resources Australia) has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of a $90 million Future Fuels Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program.
According to NERA chief executive
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Charging ahead in the Sunshine State
Electric vehicles (EV’s) offer a range of social, economic and environmental benefits but one of the key barriers to electric vehicle (EV) uptake has been a lack of public charging infrastructure which
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Solar PV and wind are on track to replace all coal, oil and gas within two decades
Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame
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Tumbling Costs for Wind, Solar, Batteries Are Squeezing Fossil Fuels
Latest BNEF study of comparative costs worldwide shows an 18% improvement in the competitiveness of onshore wind and solar in the last year, and new and rapidly developing roles for batteries.
According
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Five minute ahead forecasting
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced it is seeking expressions of interest for projects to trial short-term forecasting from large-scale wind and solar farms across Australia.
On
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New service to assist businesses
Schneider Electric has launched new services to assist businesses in the adoption of low-cost renewable energy, through power purchase agreements (PPAs) and other projects.
The rapid closures of coal-fired
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As the Libs claim South Australia, states are falling into line behind the National Energy Guarantee
As prime minister, Paul Keating used to say that when you change the government, you change the country. On Saturday South Australians changed their government, and now the country’s energy policy could
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The rise of silicon thermal
Silicon thermal energy storage systems are more compact than batteries and have the lowest levelised cost compared to any other form of storage. With the significant increase in the number of large-scale
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