Hydro Tasmania and AGL Energy have been announced as winners of the Energy Supply Association of Australia (esaa) Innovation and Sustainability Reporting Awards respectively. [ + ]

The solar PV industry is set for rapid growth over the next five years, with up to 100 GW annual deployment being targeted in 2018, according to the latest edition of NPD Solarbuzz Marketbuzz. [ + ]

The Senate Select Committee on the NBN has raised concerns about the accuracy and reliability of the strategic review. [ + ]

The newly revised ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 105-2014, Standard Methods of Determining, Expressing, and Comparing Building Energy Performance and Greenhouse Gas Emissions, offers an even playing field in the area of energy performance. [ + ]

Nexans will design, manufacture and supply 130,000 km of specialised cables for the Airbus modern aircraft family from the single-aisle A320 Neo, the A350 series up to the flagship double-deck A380. [ + ]

German organic solar film producer Heliatek GmbH says it has achieved a new record in transparent solar cell efficiency: transparency levels of up to 40% with an efficiency of more than 7%. [ + ]

Communities living near wind farms have every reason to feel reassured about their safety after the Australian Medical Association (AMA) released a public statement on wind farms and health, the Clean Energy Council says. [ + ]

Interested to know how ARENA, the RET Review and the carbon price will affect the PV industry? SunWiz and SolarBusinessServices have released a collaborative report: Australian PV - Market Forecast 2013-2018. [ + ]

The inaugural Wind Industry Forum in Melbourne was a sellout, with 200 industry professionals attending to hear insights from leading experts. [ + ]

Communications Alliance has advocated significant regulatory changes that are needed to ensure that the benefits of vectored VDSL2 can be realised if this technology is incorporated into a reworked NBN. [ + ]

Professor Alex Baitch, national president, Engineers Australia, will be speaking at the upcoming ACI Connect conference, to be held in Melbourne on 9 and 10 April. [ + ]

Australia's new engineering conference, ACI Connect, to be held in Melbourne on 9 and 10 April, has attracted a high-quality list of speakers and trainers. The 25% early bird conference discount closes this coming Friday, 21 March. [ + ]

Apprentices are the lifeblood of the electrical contracting industry. It is therefore imperative that our younger generation are equipped with the tools and knowledge necessary to make informed decisions about the career pathways available to them within our industry. [ + ]

Power outages are becoming more frequent across Australia and New Zealand, increasing from 94 reported outages in 2012 to 162 in 2013. These are among the findings contained in the Australian and New Zealand Blackout Tracer Annual report for 2013. [ + ]

The Clean Energy Council has hit back at claims that cutting the Victorian Energy Efficiency Target (VEET) would reduce household electricity bills, calling them "wrong and short-sighted". [ + ]