CBD Energy has signed a joint venture with Datang Renewable Power and Baoding Tianwei Baobian Electric to provide renewable energy for Australia.

The United States Department of Energy has invested in a wave energy project using technology developed by a company in New Zealand.

Easy recipes for radioactive compounds have been developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories.

BuildingIQ and Perth’s Western Power have received the annual Sustainable Energy Association 2011 Award for Excellence in Innovation for their work on Perth’s historic Council House.

The carboNZero program is changing to a stand-alone corporate business with a strong eye on international markets under the leadership of new Chief Executive Graham Carter and a fresh board of directors.

Solutions to Australia’s biggest environmental problems could be closer following the co-location of Queensland's best and brightest minds to a new ecosciences precinct at Brisbane’s Boggo Road.

The Commonwealth Government’s $42 billion commitment to Building the Education Revolution program is funding a diverse range of capital works projects for school facilities around Australia.

Black & Veatch is expanding its solar photovoltaic (PV) services and will provide independent engineering and due diligence services to manufacturers of solar PV materials.

Customers in and around the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) are now being provided with a cleaner, green collection service by SITA Environmental Solutions (SITA).

Grattan Institute today released its latest energy report detailing the failure of past government initiatives to reduce carbon emissions. “A study of 14 years of Australian programs to tackle climate change shows that only a carbon market can reduce emissions quickly and deeply enough for Australia to meet its 2020 emissions target,” the CEO of Grattan Institute, Professor John Daley, said today on the launch of a new Grattan report - Learning the hard way: Australian policies to reduce carbon emissions.

ATM Recyclingsystems of Pucking, Austria, supplier of heavy recycling machines and specialised scrap processing systems to the global metals recycling industries, has appointed the Koga Group as its Australasian agent.

The power and automation technology group ABB has agreed to buy a 35% stake in Novatec Solar (formerly Novatec Biosol), an innovative concentrated solar power (CSP) technology company based in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Australasia’s leading carbon forest sink project developer, Carbon Conscious Limited, has announced an expansion into the New Zealand market through a carbon forest sink deal agreed with a major Australasian energy company.

With energy prices set to rise, Victorian businesses are being encouraged to reduce their energy consumption and protect their business against price impacts through an energy-saving initiative from Bendigo Bank and Carbon Down.

National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) data has been released that shows emissions of a range of common air pollutants dropped slightly in 2009-10.