Category: Clean energy

The sunshine state’s Energy Minister has accused the New South Wales Baird government of contributing to energy price hikes.

Anger and accusations fly over why an official investigation took nine months with little detail of what damage was caused.

The abolition of the Carbon Tax was sold as the cure for soaring power bills, but in Western Australia the prospect of households losing the opportunity to feed into the grid and cut their power bills is burning a few fingers.

Sydney’s Campbelltown City Council has taken on more clean and green biofuel garbage trucks as it tries to drive down both costs and carbon emissions.

The nation’s capital is planning to build a new “innovation precinct” to attract research and development into solar power with the goal of making Canberra a “leading city” in renewable energy.

The South Australian government has blown off critics of wind power after it approved the second largest turbine generation facility in Australia in a bid to boost Adelaide’s power supply and spin the city out of a manufacturing downturn.

By Professor Edward Blakely* The United States has dealt with more disasters in the last four years than any period in nearly a century. This path of destruction has been…

By Paul Hemsley and Julian Bajkowski There’s no shortage of awards and prizes for sustainability initiatives, but Sydney’s Randwick City Council has taken out top honours over its state local…

By Paul Hemsley The Tasmanian Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) car fleet might have been one of the state’s biggest carbon emitters, but that hasn’t stopped the agency…

By Paul Hemsley The New South Wales government has revealed plans to replace existing mercury vapour streetlights with light emitting diode (LED) technology across 41 council areas in Sydney, the…