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Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes wants the country’s politicians to start taking climate change more seriously. Cannon-Brookes, who made his fortune co-founding the enterprise software company Atlassian Corp., is pledging the firm will get all its power from renewable sources by 2025. |
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The Queensland government has laid down regulations for solar farms that will allow only licensed electricians to install or remove PV panels. But the new rules will put hundreds of local jobs at risk and could bring some projects to a standstill, the CEC has warned. |
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Woolworths, the Australian supermarket giant, is issuing green bonds to fund the development of low-carbon supermarkets and the installation of solar at its stores and distribution centres. |
"The whole photovoltaic technology itself is a bit magical, you know -- sunlight just falls on this inert material and you get electricity out of it."
-- Prof. Martin Green
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Regardless of political policies, energy networks are already working and innovating to accommodate a transport future largely powered by electric motors – battery and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. |
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Construction has been completed on the Solar Energy Transformation Program (SETuP), which has been touted as Australia’s largest rollout of solar power to remote communities to date. |
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A people-powered revolution is taking place in north-east Victoria with the region's first community-led energy network going live. |