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Victoria to trial “sophisticated” two-way market for home solar and storage
AusNet Services-led trial will see customer owned assets like rooftop solar compete in the same market as traditional power plants in north-eastern Victoria.
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Nuclear fusion edges closer to reality with Curtin University research
Researchers from Western Australia develop database of electron-molecule reactions seen as major step forward in making fusion power a reality.
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Germany’s first coal plant phase-out auction a success, with 4.8GW to close
Germany's first auction for decommissioning coal generators results in nearly 5GW of contracted closures, including some plants opened just five years ago.
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UK’s COP26 president piles new pressure on Morrison on zero carbon target
Incoming COP26 chief piles pressure on Morrison government to set zero carbon target, while praising Australian States and Territories for leading the way.
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New partnership to restore Riverland Ramsar site
UN climate summit president thanks Australian states – but not Morrison government – for backing net zero
UK energy minister Alok Sharma urges ‘all of you who have not already done so to join the race’ to net zero emissions by 2050
The British president of the next major UN climate change summit has pointedly thanked Australia’s states and territories for backing a goal of net zero emissions by 2050 while urging unnamed others – including the Morrison government – to join them.
In a speech to an Australian audience on Wednesday, Alok Sharma, the president-designate of the COP26 summit in Glasgow and a member of Boris Johnson’s Conservative cabinet, said more than 120 countries had announced carbon neutrality or net zero emissions targets and urged others to follow.
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Liddell extension ‘one of the lowest ranked’ options, government modelling says
Government commissioned modelling shows extending the life of Liddell as one of the worst options for ensuring cheap and reliable power in NSW.
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Small waters 'can help address biodiversity crisis'
High-definition video used to identify new deep-sea blob – video
For the first time, scientists have used high-definition underwater cameras to identify a new species. The small gelatinous blob known as Duobrachium sparksae is a type of ctenophore, or comb jelly. Scientists from the US-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) discovered the creature in an underwater canyon north-west of Puerto Rico in April 2015 but it has only now been described in a research paper
Continue reading...No-kill, lab-grown meat to go on sale for first time
Singapore’s approval of chicken cells grown in bioreactors is seen as landmark moment across industry
Cultured meat, produced in bioreactors without the slaughter of an animal, has been approved for sale by a regulatory authority for the first time. The development has been hailed as a landmark moment across the meat industry.
The “chicken bites”, produced by the US company Eat Just, have passed a safety review by the Singapore Food Agency and the approval could open the door to a future when all meat is produced without the killing of livestock, the company said.
Continue reading...World’s biggest offshore wind farm reaches financial close
Norwegian energy company Equinor and Irish renewables developer SSE Renewables reach financial close on first two phases of massive Dogger Bank Wind Farm.
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Europe’s biggest battery project – 640MWh – approved in the UK
UK government grants planning consent to Scottish company InterGen to develop largest battery storage project in UK and Europe, and one of the largest in the world.
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Hidden secrets that Angus Taylor tried to bury in Australia’s latest emissions data
A sugar hit of COVID-hit transport, growing renewables and suspicious revisions - all the hidden bits in Australia's new emissions data
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The Coalition will lose more former heartland seats to independents without a climate plan | Malcolm Turnbull
Progressive female independents hold three once-safe Liberal seats. Their victories are templates for further change
On 11 November, Joe Biden received congratulatory phone calls from Scott Morrison and Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga. The office of the president-elect published brief summaries, readouts, of the calls.
This is diplomacy at its most conventional. But a friend of mine in Washington picked up a not so subtle difference in the two readouts.
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California offset usage declines at 2019 compliance deadline, as indirect emissions fall
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Whitebark pine trees are dying across the US west. Could a federal proposal protect them?
The high-elevation tree – a key source of food for grizzly bears – is vulnerable to climate crisis, beetles and disease
Climate crisis, voracious beetles and disease are imperiling the long-term survival of a high-elevation pine tree that’s a key source of food for some grizzly bears across the US west.
Whitebark pine trees can live up to 1,000 years and are found at elevations up to 12,000 feet (3,600 meters), conditions too harsh for most trees to survive. The trees grow in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada and western Canada, but have been all but wiped out in some areas.
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