When Australia’s biggest horticulture company, Costa Group, last week revealed plans to build its own solar and storage plant as part of a major company expansion, it caught media attention as the latest big industrial – see Sun Metals, Tesltra – to take power supply, and costs, into their own hands.

The International Energy Agency has made a mockery of Australia’s justification for vast new coal provinces, saying that coal-fired generation for electricity will have to be phased out by 2030 if used at current rates without abatement.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo last week announced a new Clean Climate Careers (CCC) initiative that will aim to create 40,000 clean energy jobs by 2020.

The South Australian government’s official target for renewable energy is 50 per cent of local demand by 2025. According to the Australian Energy Regulator, it didn’t just reach that target in 2016/17, eight years early, it is literally blowing past it.