Australia Photo credit: Clean Energy Regulator. By Anders Lorenzen The penetration of renewable energy in Australia‘s main electricity grid has never been higher. The share of renewables in Australia’s main electricity grid has reached a new high, with rooftop and grid-scale solar, wind and hydro combining to deliver more than 70% of the total underlying demand on Wednesday this week. […]
Australia People playing football on Bondi Beach in August. Photo credit: Edwina Pickles. By Anders Lorenzen Australia recorded its warmest winter on record, this is according to the country’s weather agency ahead of a widely anticipated decision over whether to declare El Nino conditions, which typically bring hotter, drier weather. The June-August season’s national mean temperature was 1.53 centigrade above […]