The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says wind and solar energy are essential to achieve the bulk of rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions – while also delivering some of the cheapest new supplies of energy.

Oil and gas giant Woodside Petroleum has agreed to help fund the construction of a 5MWe concentrated solar technology demonstration plant in California’s Mojave Desert, and has struck a deal that could see it use the technology for green hydrogen and other uses in Australia and around the world.