Energy Efficiency

Clean energy, like most industries across the globe, has faced an enormous test in resilience over the past few months. With the onset of the pandemic and the devastating effects it has had on the renewable energy industry, we’ve learned…

We’re proud to have hosted the editors of six leading clean economy news sites last month. It was the first time they’d convened to discuss trends in the sectors they cover. In our most recent post, we summarized trends the editors…

Following the Victorian government’s announcement last week of the largest investment in social and needs-based housing since the Global Financial Crisis, it’s vital for housing providers to integrate sustainability benchmarking across…

Clean Power Published on June 7th, 2020 | by Barry A.F. June 7th, 2020 by Barry A.F. The 12 Steps: We admitted we were powerless over — that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a power greater than ourselves…

by Trivess Moore, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University, and Tony Matthews, Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University. This article was originally published…

The federal Morrison government’s $688 million home building and renovation stimulus has unleashed a torrent of suggestions for how the money could be much more meaningfully spent, with the same “jobs for tradies” outcome Scomo seems…

For the last few monthly updates, I’ve been focusing on the big picture, and have neglected to say anything about many of the 10 Clean Energy Stocks for 2020 since I looked at how the pandemic would likely affect each stock in…

Energy efficiency advocates have called on the Victorian government to come to a decision as soon as possible on 2022-2025 targets for the state’s Energy Upgrades program, or VEU – a market-based scheme that encourages households and…

Image: The Cape Australian households have led the world in their uptake of rooftop solar, but a look under those rooftops tells a starkly different story.Thanks to a combination of historically cheap energy and a largely forgiving climate…

The Victorian Government’s Solar Homes program once threatened to cut a swath through the state’s solar installer base; now it’s found its feet and forms the framework for delivering $15.3 million in new funding to reduce emissions and…