The US is generating more electricity than ever from wind and solar power – but often it’s not needed at the time it’s produced. Advanced energy storage technologies make that power available 24/7.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Energy
Displaying 221 - 240 of 646 articles
A US laboratory has announced an exciting new leap forward in nuclear fusion, but it may be several decades before we see this form of energy come to fruition.
The UK government claims hydrogen could meet one-third of the country’s energy demand by 2050.
Pour parvenir à l'accès universel à l'énergie d'ici 2030, le Sénégal doit doubler son taux d'électrification, déclare l’ONU.
South Africa needs a detailed and thoroughly researched set of scenarios mapped out to inform a new electricity plan.
The cost of decarbonising the UK’s energy system is falling disproportionately on the poorest.
When heat in doesn’t equal heat out, Earth sees changes.
The process of manufacturing gallium-doped solar panels was under a patent until last year. It’s only now that this method has started to pick up steam.
Nearly 60 years after a radiation-leaking reactor was removed from a US Army base on the Greenland ice sheet, the military is exploring portable nuclear reactors again.
Hybrid energy systems that combine renewable and non-renewable fuel systems could be the key to sub-Saharan Africa’s energy transition.
Keeping global warming under 1.5°C is still achievable with rapid deployment of renewables. A new report found solar and wind can supply the world’s energy demand more than 50 times over.
Renewables form an ever-greater share of the electricity mix. But elsewhere in the energy sector – in transport, industry and buildings – emissions reduction is very slow.
How much energy does the internet use, and - given recent technological advances - could it ever run on renewable energy alone?
When announcing financial penalties on Russia earlier this year, Biden hinted at the prospect of ‘further’ sanctions. An energy scholar explains what Biden may have meant.
Chinese bitcoin mining could consume as much energy as the whole of the UK by 2024.
Firewood and charcoal are replaced with more energy-efficient electricity.
Photos from the early 1900s show LA’s forests of oil derricks. Hundreds of wells are still pumping, and new research finds people living nearby are struggling with breathing problems.
None of Australia’s highest-emitting energy firms are fully or even closely aligned with global climate goals. Just one goes even partway, and five appeared to be taking no action at all.
As global oil consumption drops, oil companies are pivoting to petrochemicals, and could crowd out bio-based alternatives.
The opportunity won’t last forever. Countries that move first will gain an advantage in new industries, technologies and export markets. Those that wait may never catch up.
Job Board
-
Sydney Horizon Educators (Identified)
-
Senior Disability Services Advisor
-
Deputy Social Media Producer
-
Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy
-
GRAINS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION CHAIRPERSON
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Program Director, Energy, Grattan Institute
-
Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University
-
Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
-
Senior Research Associate, Renewable Energy & Energy Systems Analyst, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland
-
Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick
-
Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
-
Energy Fellow, Grattan Institute
-
Professor of Physics, University of Johannesburg
-
Professor of Public Policy and Director, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines
-
Honorary Associate Professor, Centre for Climate Economics and Policy, Australian National University
-
Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy and Head of Energy, Institute for Climate Energy and Disaster Solutions, Australian National University
-
Professor of Engineering, Australian National University
-
Chief economist, CSIRO energy, CSIRO
