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UK renewables beat fossil fuels over calendar year for first time in 2020
Renewable energy sources in UK generated more electricity in 2020 than fossil fuels, a first for the country.
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Complicated, costly and downright frustrating: Aussies keen to cut emissions with clean energy at home get little support
Blow hards: Australia’s best performing wind farms in record month
More than a dozen wind farms posted capacity factors above 50 per cent in a record month for wind output in July.
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BHP expands solar contract, in wind turbine push as it boosts green nickel plan
BHP, boosted by its recent Tesla supply deal, says it is looking to install wind turbines to help power its nickel operations in Western Australia.
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Vestas secures turbine contract for next stage of Crookwell wind farm
Vestas to supply and install 16 turbines for the Crookwell 3 wind farm, putting the NSW project on track to start generating power in 2022.
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UK investment firm unveils $95m entry into Australian solar and battery market
London-listed investment fund buys two Australian solar farms and plans one and two hour battery storage facilities at multiple sites.
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Oxfam urges tougher line on ‘implausible rates’ of nature offsetting
Headwinds stand in way of €100 EUAs by 2025, analysts warn
Regional Operations Manager, AgriGrove Pty Ltd – Rockhampton & Capricorn Coast, Australia
VCM Report: VER bull run storms ahead, CME logs inaugural trades of nature-based offset futures
Carbon Credits Trader, Targray – Houston
Israel to tax carbon from 2023
Australia’s biggest renewables owner plans huge wind and storage projects
PowAR takes control of Tilt and immediately sets sights on the two biggest wind projects in NSW, and various forms of storage.
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California generation shifts to carbon-emitting sources during heat wave, as Q2 emissions soar
Dodgy tree loppers are scamming elderly homeowners and hacking up healthy trees. Here's what you need to know
Diesel car suits me better than electric, says PM’s climate spokesperson
Allegra Stratton cites time taken to recharge on long journeys, despite average electric vehicle now having range of over 200 miles
Boris Johnson’s climate spokesperson has criticised the infrastructure that she says is putting people like her off switching to an electric car.
Allegra Stratton, the prime minister’s former press secretary, revealed she drove a “third-hand” diesel Volkswagen Golf.
Continue reading...Climate crisis: Siberian heatwave led to new methane emissions, study says
Leak of potent greenhouse gas is currently small but further research is urgently needed, say scientists
The Siberian heatwave of 2020 led to new methane emissions from the permafrost, according to research. Emissions of the potent greenhouse gas are currently small, the scientists said, but further research is urgently needed.
Analysis of satellite data indicated that fossil methane gas leaked from rock formations known to be large hydrocarbon reservoirs after the heatwave, which peaked at 6C above normal temperatures. Previous observations of leaks have been from permafrost soil or under shallow seas.
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