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The 1.1MW/3MWh Wurrumiyanga Solar Infill and Energy Storage Pilot Project on Bathurst Island nears completion, as battery testing begins.

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Star of the South partners with Hunter engineering firm that "grew up in the coal sector," to progress its Destiny offshore wind project.

The post Date with Destiny: Hunter offshore wind project signs up local industrial muscle appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The EU should resist Norway’s push for more Arctic oil and gas and focus on clean energy, according to a report published Wednesday.

Investigation by Global Witness suggests cattle farming is driving illegal deforestation in the savannah featured in BBC's Planet Earth III.

The Australian government has yet to decide whether Santos' Darwin LNG facility, which will eventually take gas from the controversial Barossa field, will be treated as a "new" or "backfill" facility under the Safeguard Mechanism, officials told Senate estimates this week.

The Convention on Biological Diversity’s COP16 in October and November this year will take place in Cali, capital of Colombia’s Pacific region, President Gustavo Petro has announced.

Perth based Infinite Green Energy signs deal to help build one of Italy’s biggest commercial-scale renewable hydrogen plants.

The post Australian green hydrogen developer lands “confidence building” EU project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian soil carbon project developer and an agritech firm have launched a digital livestock tracking initiative to help optimise herd management, pasture and soil performance, they announced Wednesday.

Europe's pioneering ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft will make an uncontrolled dive to destruction.

A doubling in the size of Queensland's Wambo wind farm has been confirmed, taking the project's final capacity to just over 500MW.

The post Massive Wambo wind farm to double in size with another 41 turbines confirmed appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California gasoline sales and emissions trailed 2022 levels for the third month in a row in November, while diesel sales and emissions exceeded those from the previous year for a second straight month, according to the state data published Tuesday.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto says it has signed the biggest renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) in Australia to help supply its huge smelting and refining operations in Gladstone.

The post Rio signs Australia’s biggest wind energy deal to help power giant smelter and refineries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A climate tech venture investor is joining forces with a specialist investment manager to increase the pool of growth capital available to environmental-focused companies in the UK.

One of the world’s largest programs to eradicate multiple predators and pests has started to restore the island and its once vast nesting colonies to their former glory. Jeremy Bird, Research Associate, Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Tasmania Justine Shaw, Senior Research Fellow in Antarctic and island conservation science, Queensland University of Technology Richard Fuller, Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New report examines how Queensland’s nation-leading policy and investment in transmission, renewables and consumer energy resources is crowding in public and private capital.

The post Tidal wave of capital transforms Queensland into renewables and critical minerals superpower appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A US-based voluntary carbon removals startup has opened a public consultation as it seeks to align its certification standard with the latest code of best practice from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA).

RGGI allowance (RGA) values continued to recede as trading volumes rose from the previous week, although activity was subdued heading into the US long weekend.

We’re all familiar with fire. But do you really know what it is and how it starts? Here’s the chemistry of fire – and why Australia is so prone to going up in flames. Jason Dutton, Professor of Chemistry, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tokyo would need to plant over two billion trees to offset the more than 320 million tonnes of CO2 it emits every year, making it the city the most in need of afforestation to counteract its carbon emissions, new research finds.

The UK government has published an updated list of free allocations to industrial installations for the period from 2021 to 2025, incorporating changes to carbon allowance handouts after assessing individual plants’ operations in previous years.