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CN Markets: Price, volume slip as China’s carbon market stifled by access restrictions
Redflow eyes US expansion and new battery storage products after record orders
Australian flow battery maker eyes US expansion and new products, after navigating tough 2020.
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Is the UK lagging behind in greening its cities?
Most urban areas were laid out many decades ago, but projects worldwide show change is possible
Around the globe many cities are redesigning themselves for the 21st century, but will the UK be left behind?
Pressures on the UK’s urban environments are likely to increase, according to a report from the Environment Agency. Eight out of 10 people call these areas home and urban populations are expected to be 18% greater by 2036 than they were in 2011. Although the air that we breathe in our towns and cities has improved hugely since the 1950s, progress on particle pollution has stalled in recent years. In 2019, three-quarters of the UK’s reporting zones still failed legal limits for nitrogen dioxide that were set in 1999.
Continue reading...BHP says two solar farms and big battery to power nickel mines supplying Tesla
BHP announces first large-scale onsite solar farms and a big battery to help power its WA Nickel West mines that will supply Tesla.
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ESB’s capacity payments for coal and gas may cost $3.2 billion a year. Guess who pays
The ESB's unnecessary capacity payments for fossil fuel generators could cost $3.2 billion a year, and consumers will pay.
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Rio Tinto powers ahead on solar farm to supply Pilbara iron ore mine
Rio Tinto awards contract to build the mining giant's first fully-owned solar farm at the Gudai Darri mine in WA Pilbara region.
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Curious Kids: do penguins fly underwater?
Russian module mishap destabilises International Space Station
Tesla Megapack container on fire at site of Australia’s biggest battery
Fire erupts in Tesla Megapack battery container at the Victoria Big Battery in Geelong.
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Taylor tries again to redirect renewables funds into hand picked technologies
Angus Taylor re-issues ARENA regulations in new attempt to open up the renewable energy agency to the government's preferred technologies.
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Australia wind farms blow away monthly production record in July
Australia's fleet of more than 80 wind farms blow away monthly production record, even with a day and a half left in month of July.
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CP Daily: Thursday July 29, 2021
*Officer, Energy, Standards Development, Gold Standard – Remote (India/Switzerland/UK)
*Officer, Land Use and Forests, Standards Development, Gold Standard – Remote (India/Switzerland/UK)
Originator, CO2 Trading, Shell – Shanghai
Origin takes massive hit on coal and gas generators and renewable contracts
Origin Energy takes massive hit on value of its coal and gas assets, and on its long term renewable energy contracts.
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Longi sets 25.19% record for P-Type TOPCon cell efficiency
This new record, based on monocrystalline cells developed at LONGi’s Cell R&D Centre, was confirmed in testing carried out at the German Institut für Solarenergieforschung (ISFH), and raises the conversion efficiency of cells based on CZ wafers to a new level.
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Environment group sues over Keith Pitt grants to Beetaloo gas projects
Environment group launches legal challenge to Beetaloo gas grants, arguing resources minister Keith Pitt failed to consider risks of climate change.
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