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BatPacC – all you want to know about making EV battery packs

Mark Twidell, Director at Tesla Energy Products & Programs, talks about the present and future of Australia’s renewable energy industry.

With 91 days to go, Trump and Clinton sharpen focus on economic policy in bid to sway voters in battleground states.

AGL finally picks new head of division leading its push into solar, battery storage, electric vehicles and "virtual power plants."

New report suggests that South Australia would be paying more for electricity if it did not have wind energy – $133m more a year if all the wind generation was substituted by gas.

We are headed for a future where transport technologies that are neither car nor public transport are commonplace. Are we ready?

What will drive the revolution to get climate damaging companies to change? Demonstrations do not work, facts do not work. What is the answer? Money.

Climate Council report says renewable energy major driver of economic growth, jobs in rural Australia.

"Energy poverty" is a bigger issue in north America and other European countries than it is in Germany.

JinkoSolar has announced that it has provided 16.9kW of PV modules for the construction of the Miami Science Barge.

Volumes rose and spot prices rebounded in a tight market, with Origin receiving a "humbling" price for its gas exports as the oil price falls.

One Nation senator-elect and climate denier Malcolm Roberts has raised a number of questions on climate science and empirical evidence. Here are some answers...

South Australia is becoming a magnet for world-leading storage investments that surely signal the permanent demise of fossil fuel "base-load" generation in the electricity system. And by tapping into home solar and storage systems, utilities are changing the way people think about energy.

Bob Brown says he will be on front line of protests if Coalition finances Adani project; issues challenge for Frydenberg on whaling; and is set to join protests against BP drilling in Great Australian Bight.

Andrews government calls for consultation from business, community on design of renewable energy auction scheme – a first step towards its VRET of 40% by 2025.

AFL team Kangaroos will cut grid power consumption by nearly 25% with 200kW solar system installed at Nth Melbourne HQ.

DP Energy has been given the green light by SA govt to develop 375MW solar and wind Port Augusta Renewable Energy Park.

Darwin Airport has completed first phase of 5.5MW solar farm, switching on 4MW installation that will ultimately supply 25% of airport's power needs.

AGL Energy to install 1,000 centrally controlled battery storage systems in South Australian homes and businesses with a total capacity of 7MWh – equivalent to a 5MW solar peaking plant. A foretaste of what many expect to be the energy system of the future.

French energy minister Ségolène Royal has inaugurated a manufacturing plant that will produce the so-called "Wattway" paving, made of solar PV.