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Italian inverter maker Fimer has its li-ion REACT 2 energy storage system approved for the South Australia government's Home Battery Scheme.

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Queensland government-owned utility Yurika Energy inks deal with QIC Global Real Estate to install 15MW of rooftop solar across five major shopping centre sites.

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Expanding numbers of feral horses roaming the Australian Alps threaten the alp's ecosystems, soils and unique species. Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University Dick Williams, Adjunct Professorial Fellow, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Parks Victoria wins legal challenge to continue removing feral horses, but conservationists blame NSW for failing to control brumbies across the border

The removal of feral horses from the Australian Alps can resume after Parks Victoria won a legal challenge to its plans to manage the invasive species.

The Australian Brumby Alliance had challenged plans to remove feral horses that have overrun the Bogong high plains and eastern Victorian Alps within the Australian Alps national parks.

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DNV GL, CSIRO, Deakin University, and the Smart Energy Council are developing a draft Australian Battery Performance Standard to demystify the market for consumers.

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Independent Federal Member for Indi Helen Haines has launched a plan to ensure regional Australia benefits from a coming boom in renewable energy.

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Vestas posts surprise Q1 loss but remains hopeful it will meet original targets amidst what CEO Henrik Andersen describes as a potential “green recovery”.

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There is no shortage of ideas for a renewables-led Covid-19 recovery. Here are 10 ideas that could accelerate the clean energy transition and pay long term dividends.

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Australian heavy industries could slash energy costs by turning to wind and solar, and the clean energy switch is key to a manufacturing revival.

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Some habitats can help dampen the spread of ash dieback, which threatens ash trees.

Exclusive: Environment documents show the federal government has stopped assessing major threats to the survival of native wildlife

The federal government has stopped listing major threats to species under national environment laws, and plans to address listed threats are often years out of date or have not been done at all.

Environment department documents released under freedom of information laws show the government has stopped assessing what are known as “key threatening processes”, which are major threats to the survival of native wildlife.

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California and US Department of Justice (DOJ) officials are working to finalise a schedule for the remaining summary judgement challenge over the WCI linkage with Quebec, with the state and intervenors in the case focused on responding to the federal government’s latest argument.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices flirted with the WCI auction reserve value this week amid higher compliance buying on the secondary market, while RGGI Allowances (RGAs) dipped after approaching the Emissions Containment Reserve (ECR) trigger price.

A Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) committee split on Thursday regarding whether to recommend the RGGI-modelled ETS proposal for a vote this summer, while a bipartisan group of nearly 60 legislators called on Governor Tom Wolf (D) to suspend the cap-and-trade rulemaking in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Canadian environment ministry delayed the publication of regulations for a national offset programme due to the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, as it announced it will seek further input on which project types should be prioritised in the first phase of protocol development.

The former Bank of England governor says countries should invest in a cleaner economic recovery.

In the latest instalment of the Carbon Pulse Conversations podcast, we chat with Kelley Hamrick, policy advisor at US-based environmental organisation The Nature Conservancy (TNC), about coronavirus-related impacts on the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 negotiations and ICAO’s global aviation offset mechanism CORSIA.

Major EU airlines have reported shrinking revenues for Q1 2020 as coronavirus containment efforts ground flights and passengers, with results expected to worsen for the next two quarters as bosses predict the carriers will take several years to recover.

The federal government will fund a trial of renewable methane production in Queensland, that could provide a pathway for a clean, like-for-like replacement to natural gas in the mains supply with renewable alternatives. APA Group will develop a $2.2 million renewable methane demonstration project at the company’s Wallumbilla Gas hub near Roma in Queensland. The...

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