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NSW releases 57-page design document that it hopes will form the blueprint of its renewable energy zones and its planned exit from coal.

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We have the technology: Kobad Bhavnagri, from BloombergNEF, discusses opportunities in green steel and green aluminium for Australian industry.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Future of green steel and green aluminium appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It is thought to have been more than 8ft (2.5m) long and lived 326 million years ago in Northumberland.

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Photon sells stake in big solar project in NSW to better focus on development of RayGen solar and electro-thermal energy storage technologies.

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The next Emissions Reductions Fund (ERF) will be held in April, the Clean Energy Regulator announced Tuesday, even as the biannual event is set to shed its importance as private demand is hoovering up all available offset supply at record high prices.

The New York Climate Action Council (CAC) on Monday approved a draft Scoping Plan for orchestrating the state’s GHG reduction strategy, with members of the body softening language that had endorsed a clean fuel standard while adding a section on possible economy-wide CO2 pricing strategies.

Plans to combine a big battery with large-scale solar PV and solar thermal technology in South Australia have gained significant new momentum.

The post Aurora solar thermal, PV and battery project steams ahead with new investor appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Behind-the-meter resources like solar and battery storage must be optimised or consumers will pay more in the energy transition.

The post AEMC’s failure to act on solar, EVs and battery standards will cost consumers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New guidelines designed to protect regional centres from “encroaching solar and wind development” to come into play in early 2022.

The post NSW tightens rules on where wind and solar farms can be built appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Blackwood’s main claim to fame is its magnificent dark and durable timber. But let me introduce you to the tree, a stunning wattle with Christmas-green foliage. Gregory Moore, Doctor of Botany, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Monday announced it has signed an agreement with WCI, Inc. to provide a platform for allowances sales under its forthcoming cap-and-trade programme, a decade after the state left the North American climate collaborative it helped jumpstart.

Voluntary emissions reduction (VER) prices slipped in most standardised categories this week as a limited amount of sellers accepted lower levels while many participants eyed a new year recovery.

Another London-based hedge fund has reported big gains this year stemming from bullish bets in EU carbon.

EU carbon prices will reach €140 by 2030, said a team of analysts that has launched coverage of the ETS, with their forecast representing the most bullish outlook to date.

Tim Crosland was found in contempt for prematurely revealing court’s decision on third runway

A lawyer and climate campaigner who leaked the result of a supreme court ruling on the Heathrow airport expansion has lost an appeal against a contempt of court finding.

Tim Crosland, the director of environmental campaign group Plan B Earth, was found in contempt of court for prematurely revealing the court’s decision on Heathrow’s third runway 22 hours before it was made public in December 2020.

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The US EPA on Monday released its final rulemaking for setting light-duty vehicle GHG standards that were rolled back under the Trump administration, as President Joe Biden’s agency opted to implement more ambitious compliance targets than the proposed rule set out this summer.

Several EU environment ministers criticised the allocation of revised non-ETS emissions targets on Monday, signalling a troubled path into law for the bloc's climate legislation to help meet 2030 goals.

Florida Power & Light delivered bill text to a state lawmaker. Its parent company sent $10,000 to her campaign coffers

The biggest power company in the US is pushing policy changes that would hamstring rooftop solar power in Florida, delivering legislation for a state lawmaker to introduce, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald and Floodlight.

Florida Power & Light (FPL), whose work with dark money political committees helped secure Republican control of the state Senate, is lobbying to hollow out net metering, a policy that lets Florida homeowners and businesses offset the costs of installing solar panels by selling power back to the company.

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Volume in the EUA market dropped away sharply on Monday as the benchmark Dec-21 contract entered its final hours of trading before expiry, while natural gas rallied slightly as Gazprom booked less pipeline capacity than expected for January.