The Clean Energy Finance Corporation and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency will act as the joint managers of the newly established Clean Energy Innovation Fund, a $1 billion initiative to help emerging technologies make the leap from demonstration to commercial deployment. [ + ]

South East Water and South Gippsland Water have completed installation of the 200th in-ground pressure sewer pump unit as part of the Poowong, Loch and Nyora Sewer Scheme. [ + ]

Enphase Energy has made a US$4.4 million investment to expand its global research and development (R&D) facility in Christchurch, New Zealand. [ + ]

Energy Action is offering government funding opportunities to new and existing eligible business clients in NSW to assist them in achieving significant energy savings and efficiencies. [ + ]

CSIRO, AGL Energy, Brown Coal Innovation Australia and IHI Corporation are partnering on a two-year research program to improve efficiency of carbon dioxide capture. [ + ]

The Victorian Environment Protection Authority has charged the operators of the Hazelwood coalmine and power plant for the 2014 mine fire that cost the state over $100 million. [ + ]

NSW Environment Minister Mark Speakman has announced $4.5 million in government funding to expand or upgrade recycling equipment at nine of the state's waste facilities. [ + ]

ARENA has announced $8.4 million to support Canadian Solar and Scouller Energy in the construction of a 5 MW DC (4.5 MW AC) solar farm near Normanton, North West Queensland. [ + ]

Minister for the Environment Greg Hunt has announced the expansion of the National Carbon Offset Standard, which since 2010 has enabled businesses, products and events to be certified as carbon neutral. [ + ]

Danish pump manufacturer Grundfos has reported moderate sales growth of 0.8% and a significant increase in earnings for 2015. [ + ]

Evoqua Water Technologies' Memcor business has been named the 2015 Asia Pacific Membrane Filtration Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan. [ + ]

Presented by The Australian Solar Council and Energy Storage Council, The Solar Energy Exhibition and Conference is being held on 4 and 5 May in Melbourne. [ + ]

The Victorian Government has acted to secure Ballarat's water supply by placing an order of 50 GL of desalinated water for delivery next summer. The order comes in the wake of a steady decline in water storages for the past two years. [ + ]

The March 2016 Carbon Emissions Index (CEDEX) Report indicates that emissions have risen by an amount equal to 2.2% of total national emissions in the 18 months to December 2015. [ + ]

SmartBin has partnered with the City of Sydney to bring smart waste monitoring to residents in Darlinghurst. The initiative will see SmartBin's intelligent monitoring solution deployed to optimise collections and combat clutter, illegal dumping and safety hazards in the Royston St Underground Waste Storage Project. [ + ]