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What is the impact of significant utility-scale storage volumes on the National Electricity Market? Who are the winners and losers, and where are the key risks?

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Growing complexity surrounding connections to main grid causing more contractors to abandon large scale solar sector, with some warning of potential contractor shortages.

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The federal government expands the 'default market offer' to all households with rooftop solar.

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The Department has released a National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset (NIAFED) on behalf of the Commonwealth Government that aggregates available fire extent data for the 2019/20 fire season, starting on 1 July 2019 and provides a...

The Department has released a National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset (NIAFED) on behalf of the Commonwealth Government that aggregates available fire extent data for the 2019/20 fire season, starting on 1 July 2019 and provides a...

The Department has released a National Indicative Aggregated Fire Extent Dataset (NIAFED) on behalf of the Commonwealth Government that aggregates available fire extent data for the 2019/20 fire season, starting on 1 July 2019 and provides a...

The Minister for the Environment held a roundtable discussion today with ecologists, heritage experts, Indigenous land managers and community representatives at Parliament House to review bushfire impacts on natural and cultural heritage sites,...

The wildlife and threatened species bushfire recovery Expert Panel has released a communique.

The wildlife and threatened species bushfire recovery Expert Panel has released a communique.

The Australian Government has made an initial commitment of $50 million for emergency wildlife and habitat recovery. This is a down-payment to support immediate work to protect wildlife, and work with scientists, ecologists, communities and land...

Relatives and co-workers live in fear after two monarch butterfly activists were found dead in Mexico.

Stella Wedell astounded to spot tape in exhibition of art made out of plastic marine debris

A music fan has been reunited with a cassette tape she lost while on holiday 25 years ago after it washed up on a beach hundreds of miles away.

Stella Wedell was 12 when she took the tape on a Spanish holiday to listen to songs by the likes of Pet Shop Boys, Shaggy and Bob Marley on her Walkman.

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Having run out of space on land, a solar array has been floated on the open sea of the Arabian Gulf to help power the Abu Dhabi resort island of Nurai.

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How close are we really to seeing solar cars? What would the benefits be, and for what price? And how far will they be able to drive?

The post Driving on sunshine: Solar cars could be closer than you think appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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US biofuel credit (RIN) prices continued their recent bull run this week as reports surfaced that the EPA will meet with Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) stakeholders over possible changes to the programme’s compliance waiver process, a response to a significant court decision last month.

Compliance-oriented entities markedly increased their RGGI allowance holdings during Q4 of 2019 amid higher trading activity and rising prices, according to the quarterly market monitor published Thursday.

White's seahorse in Sydney uses seahorse hotels as temporary residence while their natural habitats recover. David Harasti, Adjunct assistant professor, Southern Cross University Michael Simpson, PhD candidate, University of Sydney Rebecca L. Morris, Research Fellow In Ecological Engineering, University of Melbourne Ross Coleman, Professor, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists say they have overturned the prevailing theory of how the planets in our Solar System formed.