Insights

The Clean Energy Regulator has released 2012-13 power generation and emissions data for almost every power generator in Australia including relatively small off-grid renewable energy power plants and co-generation plants.

There is a stark contrast in the circumstances surrounding Peter Mason's departure from David Jones and AMP. While he's completed a successful board and CEO succession plan at AMP, the DJs board has been destabilised by recent controversies.

A new study from Melbourne University finds there's an option for storing energy in Australia whose potential has been underestimated in prior analyses.

Pitching for new business is a fine art. As CEO of the Victorian Major Events Company Brendan McClements knows how to get it right.

Chinese repression is not the only factor that has contributed to the radicalisation of China's Uighur people. The rise of fundamentalist Islam in the region is also key to understanding the problem.

Two slides neatly indicate why in an enlightened world the electric vehicle market should be set to surge - one brings health, the other wealth.

The biggest impediment to solar certainty is undoubtedly politics, but currency fluctuations are running an increasingly close second.

Local market begins weaker as Ukraine-Russia fears take hold.

The collapse of Mt. Gox might appear sudden but some say the Bitcoin exchange's demise was only a matter of time.

Mark Gregory's criticism of the MyBroadband website is an assault on logic that fails to understand how the ratings system actually works.

Local market tipped to begin stronger on upbeat Wall Street leads.

Barack Obama's preferred weapon of choice is diplomacy, but he's yet to prove he knows how to wield it. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is a chance to summon a determination he has so often lacked.

New regulation, weak demand growth for electricity and low gas prices could see 50 per cent more US coal plants retiring by 2016 than experts previously thought.

The government's handling of Qantas and the carmakers would be acceptable if the economy wasn't taking a beating from all other angles. Investment is plummeting and the stream of job losses could soon become a torrent.

Investors will be keenly watching domestic GDP figures and developments in the Ukraine this week, with the RBA unlikely to move on rates.

The bigger the financial sector gets, the more it can destroy. And Mark Carney's vision of British banks nine times the size of GDP is positively terrifying.