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Market operator releases assessment of wholesale margins made by South Australia's Tesla big battery in the first three months of 2018.

The second big battery in South Australia is charging up on the Yorke Peninsula.

Recently, a 50kW/150kWh energy storage container was assembled and tested at GreatWall Power Plant and shipped to the energy center of an industrial park in Shanghai.

If the right wing has problems with the NEG, wait until they see the Integrated System Plan. Meanwhile, future prices for coal-dependent NSW now nearly as pricey as renewables-focused South Australia.

Sydney-based MAKO Tidal Turbines to undertake six month demonstration of its renewable energy technology at Gladstone Port.

Trump administration hires more people whose policy positions directly conflict with the mission of the agency where they serve.

Perovskite solar technology leader’s solar cell exceeds highest ever performing single-junction silicon solar cell.

Victoria’s inland wetlands lock away the annual emissions of 185,000 people, or roughly the population of Geelong, according to the state’s first ever tally of the valuable environmental resources.

MPs have voted in favour of building a new runway at London’s Heathrow airport, paving the way for expansion after decades of delays and policy U-turns. The 415 to 119 vote was missed by the most high profile opponent Boris Johnson, who once said he would ‘lie down in front of bulldozers’ to stop the expansion. He was in Afghanistan and came in for criticism from Tory MPs for sidestepping the embarrassment of either not supporting the government or breaking his word

• MPs back Heathrow third runway project as Johnson faces criticism
  

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The moment the biggest satellite ever released from the space station was set free.

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An all-women expedition sets out to gather scientific data on the world's largest accumulation of marine plastic.

Fourteen EU environment ministers on Monday urged the European Commission to include 2050 net zero options in its upcoming long-term climate strategy and for the bloc to signal this year its willingness to up its Paris pledge.

France’s environment ministers are pushing for the EU’s trade policy to be brought into line with the objectives of the Paris Agreement, in what many will see as a retaliatory move aimed at the US.

The average Australian feral cat kills 225 reptiles a year, which adds up to 596 million in total, according to a new estimate. Pet cats, meanwhile, kill a further 53 million. John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Brett Murphy, Senior Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University Chris Dickman, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, University of Sydney Sarah Legge, Associate Professor, Australian National University Tim Doherty, Research Fellow, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A state-of-the-art telescope is named after Annie Maunder, a Victorian pioneer of space photography.

EU carbon prices drifted lower on Monday but remained above €15 amid a looming increase in supply.

China’s limits on contamination levels have sparked a recycling industry crisis. What are local and state governments doing to solve the problem?

“Did you put the recycling out?”

It’s a phrase regularly recited in millions of households across Australia, followed by a hollow rumble as the yellow-lidded wheelie bin is hauled to the curb. It’s a ritual that, in one form or another, takes place in more than 90% of Australian homes.

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Using greater amounts of carbon tax revenues to stimulate clean energy research and capital investment could bolster company economics and help gain support for carbon pricing, according to new research published on Monday and coming on the heels of the latest US carbon tax push.

Disappearing butterflies | Patriarchy and religion | Protesting Trump | Getaways in a Morris Minor | Ikea

I don’t know whether to be happy or sad. No cabbage white butterfly caterpillars chomping through my veg is great, but where have all the butterflies gone (Letters, passim)? Not only have I not seen a single cabbage white butterfly this year but no red admirals, no peacocks and no tortoiseshells. Very worrying.
Peter Hanson
Exeter

• As she dissected the subtle and not so subtle outrages of patriarchy experienced from Virginia Woolf to “labouring women in Mexico”, I wonder what discretion or inhibition Charlotte Higgins (Patriarchy: the return of a radical idea, 22 June) exercised not to mention the pronounced patriarchy in the Catholic church (the Holy Father for goodness sake), the male-delineated roles in ultra-orthodox Judaism, and in the various iterations (institutional or cultural) of Islam, all elided (that is to say obscured) in the one word reference to “religion”.
Philip Stogdon
London

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