solar energy

The green transition is one of the biggest themes of our time and one that Octopus Investments is betting heavily on.

Understanding all of the available energy options, including uranium, is essential to designing a balanced and future-ready portfolio.

For years, it’s not merely been conventional wisdom; it’s become a pillar of the zeitgeist and a litmus test of acceptable opinion: electricity generated from...

For many, green energy still sits on the margins of our national energy sector.  And therefore on the margins of mainstream investment.  And they'd be wrong.  Coal...

A side effect of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the jump in oil and gas prices. The result is basically a global Putin carbon tax. Albeit with the proceeds...

In a recent article we posted on livewire we discussed Renewable Energy and that the price you pay always matters. We mentioned Sunrun and that it is one of Pella...

Sometimes it's all about timing. At other times, it's about doing the right thing. And sometimes, as in the case of renewables, it's both. Renewable energy has...

Climate change is considered one of the most critical global issues of our time. It has been an accelerant for mass environmental and ecological awareness and...

If you don’t spend your weekends keeping up with tweets from Australia’s energy market boffins - and you’d be forgiven - you could’ve easily missed some significant...

In this concluding piece, we introduce some more concrete investment options in the global listed equity space that we think may benefit from increased investment in...

Australian energy policy is a mess. Investors should ignore the arguments. The antagonists are stuck in a perpetual time shift, prosecuting cases from 5-10 years ago,...

In Australia, just 20 coal-fired power stations remain operational today. That number is set to fall dramatically over the coming decade; by 2030, 55% of Australia’s...

The US forces stationed in the Philippines in 1942, faced an impossible task. The Japanese Imperial army had taken control of most of South East Asia and there would...

Topics this week include the death of Coal, the potential of renewables to take over Australian energy, which energy-based stocks have potential, the viability of...

Topics this week include the growing popularity and falling cost of solar power, batteries combined with solar being the ‘killer app’ of the energy industry, the...

Bloomberg just published another stark reminder of the shifting landscape for energy generation – fossil fuels have a limited time as viable sources of energy. And I’m...

The Clean Energy Council recently reported that renewable power output in Australia has doubled over the past 12 months . Despite this remarkable surge, we have a long...

Solar is now viable at $50 a megawatt hour, half the wholesale price. Many investors don’t realise just how cheap solar has become, because the fall in price has been...

The price of solar was already falling steadily but then plummeted over the last decade to make it far cheaper than conventional power. John Martin, CEO at New Energy...