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The Federal Government is facing an uphill battle to convince some states to back the National Energy Guarantee, with some leaders saying the plan's targets are too low to drive any new investment in renewable energy.

Coal fueled the world for more than 100 years, but now it's being pushed out of the market. Recent evidence for that can be found in the United Kingdom, which just set a new record by going nearly 55 hours sans coal. The...

Last year, the world invested more in solar power than all fossil-fuel sources combined. Investors and governments installed an all-time record of 157 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy capacity, according to a new report...

The Renewable Energy Target the Abbott government scrapped as impossible is now in sight, but Australia still faces a 118 million-tonne shortfall in its commitment to cut CO2 emissions, according to new research.

Google just announced they officially bought enough renewable energy to match all of the electricity they consumed last year. Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure Urs Hölzle announced the milestone on their blog...

One of the country's chief independent energy experts calls on state and federal governments to come up with strategies and policies to deal with the emergence of community-funded power projects.

One of the United States' biggest electric utilities, American Electric Power (AEP) is planning to build a two-gigawatt wind farm - and they want consumers to pay for it...

The world's first unsubsidized offshore wind farms are currently under construction in the Netherlands. The underlying economics of offshore wind energy have become so favorable in the country that the projects will require...

Wind turbines kill up to 750,000 birds every year, according to Donald Trump's Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. There's one problem with that figure: it's grossly overstated. Zinke also condemned wind power for its carbon...

Islands are places of exceptional biodiversity and economic value, not to mention their great natural beauty. However, because of their isolation from the mainland, they are also difficult to power. This fact is particularly...

Fourth-fifths of the United States' electricity demand could be met with wind and solar power, according to four researchers from the Carnegie Institution for Science, University of California, Irvine (UCI), and the California...

The 30 megawatt Hywind Scotland floating wind farm started operating last fall, and Statoil recently said the farm, a world first, "performed better than expected in its first three full months in production." The floating...

Nova Scotia Power has established a pilot project that utilizes Tesla's Powerpack 2 home batteries and their utility-grade Powerpack batteries to form an improved energy storage system for local wind power...

Nearly 35,000 wild reindeer make their home in the southern mountains of Norway - "the last remaining viable populations in Europe," according to Reuters...

The battery battles are on as the State Government announces a new big battery in same region as Tesla's giant one. It comes as an Australian energy provider claims they suggested the will be expanded with big battery storage...