Solar PV and wind energy have overtaken coal as the leading sources of new electricity generation worldwide, with falling prices and new storage technologies making clean energy ever more attainable.
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Apartment-dwellers risk being left behind in the rooftop solar boom. But some projects are showing how apartments can join the transition to a distributed renewable energy future.
If harnessed properly, the sun holds tremendous potential to provide sustainable energy for the earth.
Despite its name, the National Electricity Market doesn’t reach WA. But those charged with guiding the eastern states’ energy transition should look west once in a while.
Scientists investigating an underwater mountain have found lots of tellurium, a mineral used in some solar panels.
The UN Sustainable Energy initiative has set the goal of ensuring sustainable energy for all by 2030. However, the international community still can’t overcome the problem of energy access.
Estimates released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest that the number of direct full-time equivalent jobs in renewable energy activities has continued to fall from its 2011-12 peak.
The Turnbull government is funding energy storage as a crucial missing piece of the electricity grid puzzle. Analysis suggests an affordable, fully renewable grid doesn’t require any heroic assumptions.
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.
Flexible plastic electronics are already altering the world around us.
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?
Cuts to ARENA as part of the government’s savings bill are short-term politics at its worst.
An open letter from 190 solar energy researchers in defence of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which has funded world-leading research.
Despite having some of the best solar radiation levels in the world, the diffusion of solar energy systems in Africa has been very low
Critics don’t think Tesla can sell enough home batteries to justify its acquisition of SolarCity, but what they’re underestimating is the potential for innovation the Gigafactory brings.
Many households in New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria will lose their subsidies for solar power this year.
Photovoltaics and wind energy now have such a large head start that no other low-emission generation technology has a reasonable prospect of catching them.
Catch 22: renewable energy can help fight climate change, but climate change might prove hard on renewable energy.
Solar power has enormous potential, but provides only about one percent of world electricity today. An engineer explains the many steps it takes to make solar panels that are efficient, clean and cheap.
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Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
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Research Fellow, ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science, Australian National University
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Senior Research Fellow in Renewable Energy, Australian National University
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John M. Thompson Chair in Information Technology and Innovation and Professor, Western University
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Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO
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Phd Candidate, School of Engineering, Australian National University
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Reader in Energy Policy, University of Aberdeen
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Joint director, Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, and Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW
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Professor of Energy and Environmental Economics and International Affairs, Penn State
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Photovoltaic Engineering, University of Oxford
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Assoc Prof. Renewable Energy, Monash University
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Professor of Sustainability, Curtin University
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Senior Research Fellow, Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW