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Safeguards mechanism in regulator sights, in emissions reporting crackdown
Clean Energy Regulator names Coalition's Abbott-era safeguard mechanism as top compliance concern for coming year, in crackdown on emissions reporting by big polluters.
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Australia will ban export of recyclable waste 'as soon as practicable', PM vows
State environment ministers will consult industry to develop a timeline to improve the recycling system
The prime minister has vowed to do more to tackle plastic waste in the world’s oceans, saying the export of waste plastic, paper, glass and tyres will be banned.
Scott Morrison said only about 12% of materials are properly recycled in Australia and he wanted that to change. With state and territory leaders, he has laid out a plan for environment ministers to improve the recycling system.
Continue reading...Rooftop solar slashes demand levels and emissions across main grid
Australian Energy Market Operator data shows rooftop solar pushing down demand in daytime hours and reducing emissions.
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Carnegie opens share offer in first step to wave power reboot
Carnegie Clean Energy launches $5.5m share offer, in first step to resuming trade on ASX, and commercialising its CETO wave power technology.
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AEMO seeks emergency reserves as coal outages increase across NEM
AEMO seeks bids for emergency reserves as it prepares for another hot summer, and as coal plant outages in Victoria and Queensland jump dramatically.
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Photon Energy reports 17.6% revenue growth and positive results in 2019Q2
The Company attributed the 17.6% (YOY) increase in revenues primarily to the increase of electricity production sales and the expansion of its proprietary portfolio of PV power plants in Hungary by 11.6 MWp, the engineering business in Australia, and PV technology trading.
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Gorgon commences carbon capture, better late than never
Chevron finally gets carbon capture project up and running at Gorgon after years of delays.
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Emitters paid fixed price for more than half of their 2018 NZ ETS surrender obligations
Berlin's bumbling beekeepers leave swarms without homes
Inexperienced hobbyists force bees to search often in vain for suitable habitats across the city
Humans are not the only ones in Berlin struggling to find accommodation. A beekeeping boom has led to swarms of bees increasingly forming novel new hives using anything from motorbikes to balconies in the German capital.
Germany’s beekeeping association has been forced to dispatch a growing band of swarm-catchers – or schwarmfänger – reachable via telephone hotlines, to deal with a deluge of incidents in which thousands of bees cluster round objects while scout bees go in search of suitable homes, such as a tree hollow, more often than not in vain.
Continue reading...Angus Taylor’s Liddell taskforce slammed as guise for propping up coal
Federal and NSW Governments establish taskforce to examine options for Liddell closure that's set to reignite pro-coal push.
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Germany’s foray into home batteries pushes market to tipping point – report
Rapid spread of home batteries in Germany brings European residential storage market to an economic tipping point, according to new research.
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Threatened Species Bake Off 2019
Threatened Species Bake Off 2019
Vietnam to introduce pilot carbon tax for power, cement production
Tilt to make decision on Snowtown battery by early 2020, goes cold on solar
Tilt still plans big battery at Snowtown wind complex, but appears to have gone cool on addition of 44MW solar plant.
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Energy Insiders Podcast: Snowy Hydro in the spotlight
Snowy Hydro’s Gordon Wymer goes into the fine details of the proposed Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme. Plus. The regulator’s power play on wind farms.
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