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South Australia to "jump start" uptake of electric vehicles by transitioning government fleet to EVs and boosting charging infrastructure.

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The luxury carmaker will scrap petrol engines within a decade and become carbon neutral.

In an Australian first, Melbourne has become home to the new, revolutionary, zero-carbon, off-grid streetfood kitchen.

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Horizon Power has engaged local company, Mechanical Project Services (MPS) to install rooftop solar systems on around 30 regional public schools.

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The new Victorian big battery is just the latest addition to a growing number of battery storage projects across the Australian grid.

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Under a Biden administration, fireside chats in the White House will come with new expectations that Australia significantly increases its ambitions under the Paris agreement. Christian Downie, Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm says mainstream adoption of grid-scale battery storage will be “the key” to replacing gas and coal power with 100 per cent renewables.

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AEMO says West Murray region in main grid is effectively full, and any new wind and solar developments will lead to significant constraints on output.

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In dissenting reports, Labor and Greens senators says CEFC amendment bill is an unwarranted power grab by federal energy minister Angus Taylor.

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Engineers think ammonia, if made sustainably, could be a greener fuel for shipping, but challenges remain.

System strength issues in Queensland lead to price extremes as large scale solar farms are switched off and on in response to grid constraints.

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Emissions regulated under Quebec’s WCI-linked carbon market increased by almost 1% last year, as the CO2 from a newly opened cement plant outweighed lower GHG output elsewhere in the economy.

Swedish teen environmental activist took her shot at the president’s rage tweet as the US formally exits from the Paris climate agreement

They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Greta Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist mocked by Donald Trump in a tweet when she was named Time magazine’s person of the year, waited exactly 11 months before delivering the perfect riposte.

In his December 2019 insult, Trump told Thunberg, 17, to work on her “anger management problem” and to “go to an old-fashioned movie with a friend”.

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ScottishPower claims a “world first” by using power from Dersalloch wind farm to reenergise a blacked-out section of the power grid.

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European Energy gets green light to develop northern Europe’s largest solar farm, a 300MW project set for the municipality of Aabenraa.

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The relationship between EU carbon prices and German power has strengthened in recent weeks, with some indications of a more positive correlation also emerging between EUAs and coal as the fuel regains competitiveness against gas.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices jumped by almost 4% this week on the potential for a presidential election victory by Democratic nominee Joe Biden, while California Carbon Allowance (CCA) values remained mostly steady after the publication of 2019 emissions data under the WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme.

Cases of a mutated strain of Covid-19 have been detected that may undermine future vaccines.

The electoral turmoil within the world’s second highest emitter of greenhouse gases (number one for oil and gas, by a decent margin) is going to last a few weeks even after a winner is declared, so it’s worth taking a moment to pause and thinking about how Australia’s climate future is closely interlinked with the...

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