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Australia’s wind and solar farms seek to dodge negative prices and grid costs
The days of a ‘set and forget’ bidding strategy are long gone in Australia in a rapidly changing market with more wind and solar.
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Vestas unveils new technology to recycle wind blades and stop dumping
New "game-changing" technology could be the final technological step towards a fully recyclable wind turbine.
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Australia’s best performing wind farms in 2020 on spot prices
Which wind farms performed the best on spot prices, and revenue per megawatt of capacity in Australia's main grid.
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Uniper to consider early closure of controversial coal plant opened one year ago
German utility to consider earlier than planned shutdown of controversial coal-fired power plant after government sets higher emissions targets.
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“Huge loss:” Australian solar industry veteran Govind Kant dies from Covid in India
Trina Solar Australia assistant director and pillar of Australian solar industry, Govind Kant, 47, has died after contracting Covid19 in India.
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RE100 signatory JinkoSolar launched Tiger 370W N-type panel at Smart Energy 2021
JinkoSolar today announced that it was invited to participate in the panel discussion “Corporate Leadership: Getting On With Business” at 2021 Smart Energy Conference & Exhibition Australia.
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Green light for 'net zero' equivalent for nature
Twenty firms produce 55% of world’s plastic waste, report reveals
Plastic Waste Makers index identifies those driving climate crisis with virgin polymer production
Twenty companies are responsible for producing more than half of all the single-use plastic waste in the world, fuelling the climate crisis and creating an environmental catastrophe, new research reveals.
Among the global businesses responsible for 55% of the world’s plastic packaging waste are both state-owned and multinational corporations, including oil and gas giants and chemical companies, according to a comprehensive new analysis.
Continue reading...More than a billion sparrows in the world, study finds
CP Daily: Monday May 17, 2021
Washington governor vetoes gas tax ties in cap-and-trade, LCFS bills
Pennsylvania says regulatory timelines could delay RGGI implementation, as committee backs proposal
VCM Report: VER prices tick up as supply shortage sustains
We found a secret history of megadroughts written in tree rings. The wheatbelt's future may be drier than we think
World is home to 50bn birds, ‘breakthrough’ citizen science research estimates
University of New South Wales led study suggests six times as many individual birds as humans but that many species are very rare
There are about 50 billion individual birds in the world, according to new research that uses citizen science observations to try to estimate population numbers for almost 10,000 species.
The paper, led by scientists at the University of New South Wales, suggests there are about six times as many birds on the planet as humans – but that many individual species are very rare.
Continue reading...Greenland ice sheet on brink of major tipping point, says study
Scientists say ice equivalent to 1-2 metres of sea level rise is probably already doomed to melt
A significant part of the Greenland ice sheet is on the brink of a tipping point, after which accelerated melting would become inevitable even if global heating was halted, according to new research.
Rising temperatures caused by the climate crisis have already seen trillions of tonnes of Greenland’s ice pour into the ocean. Melting its ice sheet completely would eventually raise global sea level by 7 metres.
Continue reading...EU Market: EUAs stick below €57 as observers predict further record highs ahead
NA Markets: California carbon pushes through $20 mark on continued investor interest
Jaguars could be reintroduced in US south-west, study says
Study’s authors believe animal can benefit people as well as ‘cultural and natural heritage’ of Arizona and New Mexico
Jaguars could be reintroduced in the south-western US, where hunting and habitat loss led to the big cats’ extinction, a new study says.
Scientists and other environmentalists make the case for bringing back the third-largest big cat, after tigers and lions, in Arizona and New Mexico in a paper published in the journal Conservation Science and Practice.
Continue reading...TransGrid spins-off Lumea to cash in on transition to low cost renewables
TransGrid's new spin off Lumea to target grid services for clean energy projects, and an expansion into other Australian markets.
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