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Bentley reveals plan to go fully electric by 2030
Australia’s first zero-carbon streetfood kitchen launches in Melbourne
In an Australian first, Melbourne has become home to the new, revolutionary, zero-carbon, off-grid streetfood kitchen.
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Lead contractor appointed for solar schools program
Horizon Power has engaged local company, Mechanical Project Services (MPS) to install rooftop solar systems on around 30 regional public schools.
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Australian states and utilities go bananas over big battery storage
The new Victorian big battery is just the latest addition to a growing number of battery storage projects across the Australian grid.
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Biden says the US will rejoin the Paris climate agreement in 77 days. Then Australia will really feel the heat
“Humungous” batteries will be mainstream feature of renewable grids, says Tesla
Tesla chair Robyn Denholm says mainstream adoption of grid-scale battery storage will be “the key” to replacing gas and coal power with 100 per cent renewables.
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AEMO warns wind and solar developers that West Murray region is full
AEMO says West Murray region in main grid is effectively full, and any new wind and solar developments will lead to significant constraints on output.
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Labor and Greens slam Taylor’s “unacceptable attack” on CEFC
In dissenting reports, Labor and Greens senators says CEFC amendment bill is an unwarranted power grab by federal energy minister Angus Taylor.
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CP Daily: Thursday November 5, 2020
The foul-smelling fuel that could power big ships
Queensland prices hit extremes as grid issues force solar to be switched off and on
System strength issues in Queensland lead to price extremes as large scale solar farms are switched off and on in response to grid constraints.
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Quebec cap-and-trade emissions rise for fourth straight year in 2019
'Chill!': Greta Thunberg recycles Trump's mockery of her as he tries to stop votes
Swedish teen environmental activist took her shot at the president’s rage tweet as the US formally exits from the Paris climate agreement
They say revenge is a dish best served cold. Greta Thunberg, the teenage environmental activist mocked by Donald Trump in a tweet when she was named Time magazine’s person of the year, waited exactly 11 months before delivering the perfect riposte.
In his December 2019 insult, Trump told Thunberg, 17, to work on her “anger management problem” and to “go to an old-fashioned movie with a friend”.
Continue reading...Scotland claims world first by using wind power to turn lights back on
ScottishPower claims a “world first” by using power from Dersalloch wind farm to reenergise a blacked-out section of the power grid.
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Wind-dominated Denmark to host northern Europe’s largest solar farm
European Energy gets green light to develop northern Europe’s largest solar farm, a 300MW project set for the municipality of Aabenraa.
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CORRELATIONS: EUA link to power and coal prices strengthens amid wider market turmoil
NA Markets: RGGI allowance prices continue torrid H2 stretch, California carbon holds firm
Coronavirus: Denmark imposes lockdowns amid mink covid fears
It’s Scott Morrison versus the world about his gas-fired fantasy
The electoral turmoil within the world’s second highest emitter of greenhouse gases (number one for oil and gas, by a decent margin) is going to last a few weeks even after a winner is declared, so it’s worth taking a moment to pause and thinking about how Australia’s climate future is closely interlinked with the...
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Graph of the day – Without a big government stick, gas power will decline in Australia
Increasingly, it seems gas is becoming the main focus of global climate debates, as coal enters a structural decline around the world (albeit one that is too slow). With that in mind, today’s graph of the day is the contribution of fossil gas to Australia’s National Electricity Market into the future, as modelled by the...
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