Browsing: <a href="/tag/energy-efficiency">Energy efficiency</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/renewables-low-emissions">Renewables, low emissions</a>

• Discount energy efficiency loans scheme receives funding boost
  
• Distributed energy services need a trading market, AEMC says
  
• 'Time for waiting is over': Adani to go ahead with Carmichael mine

• Plan for first offshore wind farm unveiled
  
• CSIRO issues low emissions roadmap
  
• Victoria looks for home retrofit partners

• Holcim reports 24% reduction in emissions intensity
  
• ARENA and CEFC back 'peer-to-peer' projects
  
• Mine rehabilitation bill clears parliament
  
• New energy auditing guide

• Key states and generators back net-zero emissions by 2050
  
• Tougher commercial building efficiency rules on the way
  
• WA to close 436MW of coal and gas

• New projects approved to earn credits
  
• Study urges agri-business energy demonstration projects
  
• How to use less steel and cement in construction: analysis
  
• Agency rethinks approach to distributed energy report

• Victoria's home insulation plans criticised
  
• ACCC inquiry misdirected, says electricity industry
  
• Court allows open-air stockpiles, with 'plan B' proviso

• Business Council hedges its bets on emissions-intensity scheme
  
• Frydenberg and SA Premier face-off in hostile media conference
  
• NSW awards gas grants, ready to hand out more

South Australia will set an energy security target, Victoria is aiming for 100MW of storage before 2019, and a new NSW energy security taskforce will report by year's end.

Victoria will trial standalone power systems at up to 10 households to reduce bushfire risk, and is also seeking an organisation to manage a home retrofit program.

The House of Representatives today launched a new inquiry into the electricity grid, supplementing two under way in the Senate.