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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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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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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ABB string inverter reduces OPEX and CAPEX costs for solar installations
As the solar market shifts towards new cost-effective platforms offering extreme high-power string inverters from 1,000 VDC up to 1,500 VDC, ABB PVS-100/120 platform maximizes the ROI and aims to reduce
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Strategy development to support CST
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) recently released a report outlining how concentrated solar thermal (CST) technology could be a commercially viable form of dispatchable renewable energy
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Roadmap to Australia’s clean energy future
A national energy roadmap outlining how Australia can cut its rising greenhouse gas pollution levels, while continuing the transition to clean, affordable and reliable renewable energy and storage technology,
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Meet the new ‘renewable superpowers’: nations that boss the materials used for wind and solar
Imagine a world where every country has not only complied with the Paris climate agreement but has moved away from fossil fuels entirely. How would such a change affect global politics?
The 20th century
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