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Have yourself a sustainable little Christmas

Give our planet a gift. Make your festive season more environmentally-friendly this year. We've got some tips to help you have a sustainable Christmas.

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Not too hot, not too cold. What’s ‘just right’ for our solar panels?

You might think that your solar panels work best in summer, when there’s more sunshine. But how hot is too hot for the most effective generation of solar energy?

Energy

Sun and dusted! Highlights from the World Solar Challenge

Is this the world's most epic road trip? It's certainly the greenest! The sun may have set on this year's World Solar Challenge, but our solar science is on the rise.

Energy

Electricity democracy: the power is yours

If you’re looking to decarbonise, you’ve chosen a great time. Whether it’s solar panels, an EV, or a power-sharing scheme, we currently have more electricity choices than ever before.

Energy

Solar-powered electric vehicles? Guilty as charged

With more electric vehicles on our roads, our habits will change. Soon, we’ll be able to use solar and battery to charge our vehicles, and new tech means smoother charging in warm weather, using energy from our very own homes.

Energy

Chasing the sun with the World Solar Challenge

It’s not your average trip. This month nearly 50 vehicles will travel from Darwin to Adelaide. Their fuel? Sunshine, baby!

Flexing our solar muscle: solar for everyone, everywhere

Australians love solar and we’re an extremely sunny place so it makes sense. But traditional solar panels have some limitations. Enter flexible solar.

A scientific show and tell with Dr Larry Marshall

We put our Chief Executive, Dr Larry Marshall up for a special episode of Q&A. But we’ve since had a lot of questions about what he raised on the show. So like Larry after smuggling all his gadgets into the ABC studios, let’s unpack all the highlights and what they mean for cleaner energy.

Energy

Eco living: To renovate or rebuild?

When it comes down to what’s greener, renovating often beats rebuilding. However, exactly what's done with the remodelled or rebuilt house makes an enormous difference.

Turning methane into carbon dioxide could help us fight climate change

In a paper published today in Nature Sustainability, we propose a new technique to clean the atmosphere of the second most powerful greenhouse gas people produce: methane. The technique could restore the concentration of methane to levels found before the Industrial Revolution, and in doing so, reduce global warming by one-sixth.

Energy

It’s a brick house. But how energy efficient?

Around 11.4% of Australia’s emissions can be attributed to households, so we’re tracking home energy efficiency progress through a new data portal.

Energy

Simulating sunlight: lighting the way to a more efficient solar cell

As daylight saving comes to an end, we mourn the loss of sunny summer evenings. But as the days grow shorter and darker, there’s still plenty of solar energy research being done. In fact, we’re hot on the heels of a more efficient solar photovoltaic (PV) panel.

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