#renewable energy

Chasing the sun with the World Solar Challenge

Every two years, nearly 50 vehicles travel from Darwin to Adelaide. Their fuel? Sunshine, baby! It's all for the World Solar Challenge.

A tent pitched in a remote grassy area with flexible solar panels

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.

Some states are poised for a 500% growth in rooftop solar panels by 2030. AAP Image/Tracy Nearmy

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.

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.

coal-fired power plant with steam coming out and sheep in foreground

Eighteen countries showing the way to carbon zero

Reducing emissions doesn't have to conflict with a growing economy, as these 18 developed nations show.

Dr Nariman Mahdavi Mazdeh works out some equations on a clear screen.

A data-driven energy future is NEAR

We’re no longer in the dark about Australia’s energy use. A data-driven future is near, meaning we can make informed decisions about our energy future.

You’ve got the power! Keeping our electricity during a heatwave

With warm weather making itself known, how will our electricity grid cope with the pressures of increasingly extreme weather? How do we moderate our energy consumption if there’s a chance power supplies can’t cope with our needs?

Hyper for hydrogen: our world first for carbon-free fuel

For the first time in the world, a hydrogen car has been powered by a fuel derived from ammonia, thanks to our hydrogen membrane tech. And now that tech is being commericalised to help bring a hydrogen industry closer to reality.

People using the Darwin waterfront on the edge of the CBD.

Real hot city? Our science has the Dar-winning solution

Darwin residents will be working with our scientists as we help develop sustainable cities of the future.

How hydrogen power can help us cut emissions, boost exports, and even drive further between refills

Hydrogen has several advantages over other energy carriers, such as batteries. It is a single product that can service multiple markets and, if produced using low- or zero-emissions energy sources, it can help us significantly cut greenhouse emissions.

Lighting up Australia’s energy future: the CSIRO Energise app needs you

CSIRO Energise is our new app that makes you a citizen scientist, telling us about your power usage and helping illuminate Australia's energy landscape, which at the moment is in the dark.

Teams of scientists + business mentors = ON Demo Night 2018

What happens when you pair up teams of scientists with business mentors and set them developing for three months? ON Accelerate.