Minister for Skills and Training Brendan O’Connor at the National Press Club of Australia in Canberra, Tuesday, October 3, 2023. Source: AAP Image/Mick Tsikas. A Commonwealth scheme granting $10,000 in support to clean energy apprentices will be expanded, as the federal government and industry groups attempt to attract workers […] Click here to view original […]

A group of HSBC Holdings Plc investors wants the bank to set a funding target for renewable energy amid concerns its current green pledges are too vague. It’s part of a list of demands that includes asking Europe’s biggest bank to spell out exactly how it plans to hit […] Click here to view original

Features · IMPACT National The Lone Star State has become one of the country’s top producers of solar power Illustration: Alexander Glandien/for Commercial Observer It figures the Lone Star State would love making bank via that great star we call the sun. Texas, long a juggernaut in oil and […] Click here to view original

Solar The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) reported in March that the U.S. solar industry installed 32.4 GWdc of capacity in 2023 , a remarkable 51% increase compared to 2022. It was the industry’s biggest year by far, exceeding 30 GWdc of capacity for the first time. Overall, photovoltaic […] Click here to view original

U.S. wind power slipped last year for the first time in a quarter-century due to weaker-than-normal Midwest breezes, underscoring the challenge of integrating volatile renewable energy sources into the grid. Power produced by turbines slipped 2% in 2023, even after developers added 6.2 gigawatts of new capacity, according to […] Click here to view original

Dave Duttlinger’s first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 445 acres of his fields near Wheatfield, Indiana, are covered in solar panels and related machinery – land that in April […] Click here to view original