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To achieve universal energy access by 2030, the UN says Senegal must double its electrification rate.
Diatoms’ tricks may offer new insights that keep solar cell energy running efficiently and robustly throughout their processes.
Kenya’s inadequate electricity supply is due to an over-reliance on hydropower, high energy and infrastructure costs.
With cutting-edge technologies and innovative business practices, Cape Verde can achieve its goal in a way that is cost-effective and equitable
The price of renewable energy will fall significantly relative to new-build coal in coming decades, making an all-renewable electricity system more desirable, both economically and environmentally.
Amid news that solar power capacity will outstrip nuclear by 2018, what do those assertions really mean?
Punks aren’t known for their positivity, but ‘solarpunks’ are all about optimism. A new movement of speculative fiction, art, fashion, and activism, it imagines a sustainable future that requires radical social change.
Do androids smell electric roses?
Fossil fuel advocates claim only coal and gas can deliver cheap and reliable energy, and renewables are synonymous with sustainability. But demand management can solve all three problems.
Ecologically sound housing needs to be built on a much larger scale.
Now that our rooftop solar industry has matured, we need to reconsider the purpose of feed-in tariffs and align them with our goals for the electricity system in the future.
Small-scale renewable energy projects have tremendous potential to power rural areas in the DRC. Rural areas in the country have very little access to electricity.
Individual light-harvesting protein complexes have a remarkable ability. Light, which is normally effectively harvested, is also used to finely control how much of it should be harvested.
Priority number one for the world’s leading nations in Marrakech ought to be taking carbon out of heat.
Australia has the world’s largest wave energy resource – so how do we unlock our ocean’s potential?
Queensland currently gets 7% of it’s electricity from renewable sources - but is aiming for 50% by 2030.
The governing body for our energy market has just missed a major opportunity to modernise our electricity networks.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has survived, amid a groundswell of domestic and overseas support. Its budget has been chopped, but here’s how it can still drive the renewable energy revolution.
We always hear that renewable energy is getting cheaper, but what does that really mean?
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