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Queensland premier Palaszczuk announces $145m investment package to establish renewable energy 'corridors' and connect new clean energy projects.

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To address both near-term reliability threats and emerging climate risks, we need to move both more carefully and faster.

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The West Australia grid is in the midst of an energy transition, but is on its own. AEMO’s Dean Sharafi explains the importance of inertia, and the potential of grid-forming inverters.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: State of inertia and potential for grid-forming inverters appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Origin Energy to kick-start Beetaloo Basin gas project, while profits and renewables investment stall on lower electricity prices.

The post Origin hits snooze on wind and solar as gas write-downs wipe out profits appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's biggest coal generator, the 2.88GW Eraring plant in NSW, is being forced to radically modify the way it operates due to the growing impact of rooftop solar.

The post How rooftop solar is eating into Australia’s biggest coal generator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Making Australia more energy efficient will save households money, be good for the environment and create jobs.

The post How to avoid a housing industry bloodbath – invest in making buildings more efficient appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As Donald Trump pushes forward with plans for drilling in the Alaskan wilderness, what is at stake?

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California Carbon Offset (CCO) values are holding significantly below historic trends as low allowance prices and reduced emissions due to the COVID-19 pandemic cut into compliance demand, market participants said.

Finnish utility Fortum’s climate plans are coming under scrutiny as its Uniper acquisition puts it among the EU’s biggest emitters, while its Russian assets represent an ever-greater share of its carbon footprint.

Australia's biggest solar farm finally registered in south-west NSW, with two big spinning machines.

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Drawdown research fellows analyze solutions, drawing upon years of advanced study, experience, and a wide range of backgrounds. For each technology or practice, we review extensive literature and data describing its potential scale, impact, and cost. We then build analytical models to estimate how many gigatons of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases) a given solution could avoid and/or remove over time, as well as the cost of implementing and operating it.

For this position, we are seeking a candidate to support our ongoing facilitation of the political dialogue and implementation of activities supporting the energy transition (from fossil fuels to renewable energy systems) in Southeast Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines).

For this position, we are seeking a candidate to support the research in our project “Deep Decarbonisation in Latin America”, with a focus on creating the enabling conditions to align finance flows with low-carbon development pathways in selected Latin American countries.

Neoen files plans for huge wind and solar project backed by massive battery nearly ten times bigger than Tesla big battery at Hornsdale, and with the promise to replace gas.

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Erebus project in Celtic Sea adds to Queen’s multi-million windfall through expected auction of offshore leases

The Queen’s property managers have given the green light to the first floating offshore windfarm to be built off the coast of Wales, as the UK’s wind industry prepares to power into the Celtic Sea.

The Crown Estate granted two new leases for windfarms in Welsh waters on Wednesday, including the seabed rights for a demonstration project that involves installing floating wind turbines 27 miles from the shore.

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Fragments of stone engraved with abstract designs are the earliest art in the British Isles.

Greta Thunberg has warned that we have wasted valuable time in the fight against global heating. We need Green New Deals

In the early days of the pandemic, many people urged that societies could not and should not return to business as usual afterwards. Coronavirus not only confronted us with danger, but showed what was possible. By forcing massive overnight change, it demonstrated that dramatic action could be taken when a crisis was urgent enough; that many people could agree to make sacrifices when truly necessary; and that governments could invest trillions when the future of their countries demanded it. But as the great pause has turned into a gradual reopening, there is little sign that these lessons have been learned.

Greta Thunberg’s call for climate action should be seen in this context. The campaigner, writing for the Guardian to mark the second anniversary of her first school strike, says the world has wasted that time. While millions have been inspired to follow her in protest, and the European parliament has declared a climate and environmental emergency, little action has resulted.

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An unusual partnership between an asphalt manufacturer and a green group has produced Australia’s first road surfaces made from the ubiquitous waste item

In a secret location in an industrial area in western Sydney, a test strip of asphalt is being laid.

But this is no ordinary road.

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Remember when you would take your TV to get repaired if it was broken? Now, most people just buy a new one. When a new phone comes out, we ditch the old one. Each time we do this we're eating into a finite supply of resources and creating mountains of waste. A circular economy – also known as closing the loop – is when used items don't end up in landfill, but instead become the building blocks for new products. There's a whole industry waiting to be developed in Australia, if governments would get on board.

• This man turns discarded coffee cups into roads

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