WMO’s climate and energy lead Roberta Boscolo on the latest climate report, the 1.55°C average temperature rise and heating oceans. Plus: A wrap of the news in our first podcast of 2025.

Big batteries have overtaken gas as the second biggest player in the evening demand peaks, and their owners are cashing in on the privilege.

Australia’s electricity market is old, outdated and not doing enough to drive investment in the renewable energy needed for the country to hit its climate targets.

A $230 million project investigating ways to make extracting future materials more sustainable will bring together five research groups from five continents, including one from Australia.

But questions remain about the future of its giant smelters and refineries in Queensland after the new LNP state government put a halt to new wind farm approvals. That includes the 1.4 GW Bungapan ...

Near neighbours of one of the country’s biggest wind projects are being given the opportunity to choose how close they want to be to the proposed turbines.

Contractors named for early works on potential 12 GWh pumped hydro project – assuming the state government is still interested in long duration storage for renewables.

A 500 MWh vanadium flow battery – the biggest in Australia – has been promised for the mining town of Kalgoorlie in a new state election pledge.

The battery storage business of Tesla has posted record profits and has more than doubled production in 2024, but CEO Elon Musk admits the company is struggling to balance its battery needs for ...

Miss America 2023 winner Grace Stanke has begun her Australian tour to promote nuclear power, just as the US energy giant that employs her has taken a big market hit after Chinese company DeepSeek ...

The S-Curve model, developed by Australian solar industry pioneer Andrew Birch, predicts that by 2035, half of the world’s energy needs will be supplied by solar in a classic S-curve technology shift.