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Faulty wiring and human error blamed for accidental cut to gas supplies at Darwin's largest gas generator that sent almost 50,000 into blackout.

The post Faulty wiring at gas plant caused “unacceptable” NT blackout, investigation finds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Dominic Raab says he’s confident the Morrison government ‘will step up to the plate’ before Cop26 summit in Glasgow

The British foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has stressed he expects Australia to “stretch” climate commitments and set out a plan to meet them before a major summit later this year.

The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, continues to shift how he talks about the climate crisis without making new commitments to address it. But Raab expressed confidence the Morrison government would “step up to the plate” on climate.

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We discuss first intervention by market operator to curtail rooftop solar, the latest installation stats, AGL’s big solar buy, and some really crap solar news.

The post Solar Insiders Podcast: Why switching off rooftop solar is a good thing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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"Double whammy". Solar industry experts warn of potential massive spike in Australian solar module prices due to increase in materials and shipping costs.

The post Australia braces for solar price hike as supply chain pressures start to bite appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK expects to tighten its cap-and-trade programme in 2023 to align with its mid-century net zero emissions target, the government said in a strategy document published Wednesday that could see British emitters face higher carbon costs up to three years earlier that their European rivals.

Australia's government is justifying climate inaction on a six-year-old document that misses the entire point of emissions reductions.

The post The history of Australia’s false claim that its 2030 climate targets are world leading appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Like wind and solar, the costs of battery storage are plummeting far faster than anyone expected.

The post Chart of the day: Plummeting battery costs defy expectations appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A key Washington state senator who has repeatedly blocked low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) legislation sees a possible path forward for the bill this year if certain provisions are built in, he told a committee Tuesday.

Italian oil and gas firm Eni will avoid buying spot carbon offsets from brokers where possible, choosing instead to co-develop projects in partnership with developers and local actors, a company official said Wednesday.

Once Asia's economic super powers become convinced they don’t need fossil fuel imports, they will move in that direction.

The post Australia must learn to dance with the new East-West carbon and energy wave appeared first on RenewEconomy.

We used satellite images to study the life cycles of mangrove forests in the Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales — and found a surprising degree of variation. Nicolás Younes Cárdenas, Postdoctoral research fellow, James Cook University Karen Joyce, Senior Lecturer - Remote sensing and spatial information, James Cook University Stefan W Maier, Adjunct Research Fellow, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Dragging heavy nets across seabed disturbs marine sediments, world’s largest carbon sink, scientists report

Fishing boats that trawl the ocean floor release as much carbon dioxide as the entire aviation industry, according to a groundbreaking study.

Bottom trawling, a widespread practice in which heavy nets are dragged along the seabed, pumps out 1 gigaton of carbon every year, says the study written by 26 marine biologists, climate experts and economists and published in Nature on Wednesday.

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The UK government is gathering stakeholder input to guide the more effective use of free allowance allocations under its new ETS.

EU nations want to support green hydrogen using carbon contracts for difference (CCfD) schemes, with Portugal leading the way by making plans to hold an auction in the second half of 2021.

Protecting the ocean has a triple whammy effect, safeguarding climate, food and biodiversity.

A Virginia-based peaker plant opened a secondary RGGI account on Wednesday, aligning with a growing trend of compliance entities registering general accounts in the power sector cap-and-trade scheme.

Four-year-old Otis's mum was stumped, so they wrote to Sir David Attenborough... and he replied.

EUAs resumed an upward course on Wednesday, with observers eyeing a resumption of the rally that had pushed carbon to a record high earlier this week.

Nearly 8m addresses affected by high levels of toxic particulates and nitrogen dioxide

One in four UK homes are surrounded by air pollution exceeding safety limits set by the World Health Organization, a study has shown following research revealing that road pollution affects virtually every part of Britain.

Nearly 8m UK addresses are affected by high levels of particulate matter or nitrogen dioxide, the study commissioned by campaigning group the Central Office of Public Interest (Copi) showed.

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