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AEMC signs off on new rules to prevent wind and solar projects deliberately turning down their output to avoid low or negative electricity prices.

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The NSW government could wield new powers to block projects that lose community support, to preserve confidence in the state's Renewable Energy Zones.

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AGL-backed Powering Australian Renewables fund leads $2.75 billion agreed bid for Tilt as the country's biggest coal generator seeks to accelerate its shift to renewables.

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Australia’s Woodside Energy and Singapore-headquartered traders Trafigura on Monday announced their first involvements in fossil fuel shipments voluntarily backed by carbon credits.

Beekeeper Erika Thompson says the video, viewed over a million times, was "just a normal Tuesday".

EP Carbon, a technical consultancy and project developer, is seeking a technical director to join our growing AFOLU carbon practice.

EP Carbon, a technical consultancy and project developer, is seeking a Technical Manager to join our growing AFOLU carbon practice.

The Mitigation and Carbon Pricing Consultant will be part of a multidisciplinary Governance of Climate Change Finance team for Asia-Pacific reporting to the Governance and Public Finance Specialist who in turn reports to SDG Finance Advisor in the Bangkok Regional Hub.

The Head Of Climate Change will lead on climate change includes leadership of the department’s climate change policy, strategic direction and implementation, including TCFD. This will also include cross-government lead in areas of climate, for example COP26 and beyond, the implementation of TCFD, amongst other things.

Dene Bingham photographs dangerous seas and wild places from a remote coast in Western Australia.

London-based developer plans to leverage its proposed Raglan solar project near Gladstone to add a big hydrogen electrolyser and battery storage facility.

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Participants in New Zealand’s carbon market are expecting prices to trend higher this year, with this week’s start of allowance auctions heralding a new phase for the 13-year-old ETS.

I helped survey coral reefs in Norfolk Island for the first time in eight years, and snapped marine life we didn't expect to see there. John Turnbull, Postdoctoral research associate, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Urgent protections sought as report finds some species, which get caught in trawl nets, may never recover

At least four species of shark and skates unique to Australia are at an extreme risk of extinction unless urgent protections are put in place, according to a new report from conservationists.

All four species – the whitefin swellshark, Sydney skate, grey skate and greeneye spurdog – spend their lives on the ocean floor but get caught in trawl nets.

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Sydney start-up UPowr to apply behavioural science techniques in study into how to boost participation in solar and storage orchestration initiatives.

The post How to convince households to offer battery storage to boost the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Government had little success getting local unemployed to fill critical shortages as citrus season looms

About 1,200 South Pacific fruit pickers are expected to arrive in South Australia to help fill critical shortages of seasonal agriculture workers.

The SA government’s attempts to encourage unemployed locals to take up fruit picking jobs failed to attract enough workers.

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A global program tracking green spending by countries puts Australia at the bottom of the pile for its tiny share of clean stimulus.

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European homes need heat. And the cheapest, lowest emissions way to get there is to use heat pumps powered by renewable electricity.

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A study by the Yarra Riverkeeper Association found about half the litter in the river was expanded polystyrene

On a two-kilometre stretch of the Yarra River east of Melbourne’s CBD a few years ago, volunteers were gathering rubbish from the banks and reeds.

Among all the discarded bottles and bits of plastic sucked up with an oversized vacuum were an estimated 5 million pieces of expanded polystyrene – some in the form of tiny white balls, others in chunks at various stages of disintegration.

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A seagrass that's one of the world's most powerful weapons against climate change is under threat from warming waters.