New reconstructions of Earth’s temperature over the past 2,000 years, published today in Nature Geoscience, highlight the astonishing rate of the recent widespread warming of our planet. We also now have a clearer picture of decade-to-decade temperature variations, and what drove those fluctuations before the industrial revolution took hold.
As it attempts to go more solar, Alice Springs is the site of a storm brewing between a community solar group and the Northern Territory Government-owned power company.
The Clean Energy Council (CEC) says Victoria’s Solar Homes program is distorting the market and creating solar industry “boom-bust” cycles. The CEC is asking the Victorian Government for an urgent review of the popular solar rebates scheme to reduce negative impact on the solar power industry.
An Australian company plans to supply Singapore with clean power from the world’s largest solar farm at Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. The $20 billion Sun Cable project could supply one-fifth of the Asian city-state’s power consumption via a 3,800 km submarine cable that will travel via the Indonesian archipelago.