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WA government terminates $16m Albany wave project contract with Carnegie Clean Energy, citing reasons outside the company's control.

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Genex Power completes acquisition of 50MW Jemalong project in NSW, in bid to diversify, boost earnings, as flagship Kidston solar and pumped hydro storage project progresses.

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Another major solar farm in Queensland has joined the grid, with the 100MW Lilyvale plant – 50km north east of Emerald – beginning production late last week. The Lilyvale solar farm is being developed by Spanish renewables developer FRV  and has a long term power purchase agreement with state-owned retailer Ergon Energy for all of its...

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Renewables accounted for 65% of Germany's electricity production last week.

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Ikea Australia unveils first electric delivery vehicles and says all 350 of its fleet will be electric by 2025.

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Tesla teases with online glimpse of its first electric SUV ahead of Thursday’s Model Y launch.

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Washington state representatives are currently deciding if a proposal to implement a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) will be put to a floor vote or extended ahead of a deadline this week, a legislative spokesperson told Carbon Pulse.

Air pressure over Europe and North Atlantic may provide vital data to UK energy suppliers

This time last year the UK was recovering from the “beast from the east”. Across the country heating was dialled to max and gas suppliers struggled to keep up with demand. Now a study shows how autumn wind patterns could help utility companies anticipate winter weather.

Normally energy providers use historical data to predict the temperature in the colder months. But British weather is fickle and winters vary, so this technique is unreliable. Instead Prof Adam Scaife, the head of long range prediction at the Met Office, and his colleagues compared atmospheric circulation patterns in November with gas demand the following winter.

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Ontario has cancelled its contract with the California-based Climate Action Reserve (CAR) to develop offset protocols for the province's now-repealed ETS, a company official said.

The “Floating City” is sinking under rising seas and the weight of mass tourism. Now Venice’s residents are fighting to reclaim it.

Climate Focus is seeking a climate finance and land use consultant to join our team in Bogotá Office. This is a full-time position with an expected start date in May 2019.

Experts worry that injecting sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere could put some regions at risk

A new study contradicts fears that using solar geoengineering to fight climate change could dangerously alter rainfall and storm patterns in some parts of the world.

Related: Geoengineering may be used to combat global warming, experts say

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Tasmania wasn't the only part of Australia that burned in January. The remote interior near Alice Springs saw a huge blaze, worsened by invasive buffel grass. Christine Schlesinger, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science and Ecology, Charles Darwin University Barry Judd, Professor, Indigenous Social Research, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU carbon prices sank below €23 on Monday as weaker energy prices and a lacklustre auction encouraged selling into a week that will see decisive Brexit votes to determine the country's future in the EU carbon market.

Competition in Germany’s EU carbon allowance auctions grew more fierce last year, while overall EUA trading volumes jumped by 50%, a report shows.

It is no surprise that the government’s strategy on fracking has been deemed unlawful, write Robin Russell-Jones and Geraint Davies. Carbon emissions will be even lower if the gas boiler is run on hydrogen gas, writes Carl Arntzen. And Stephen Martin and Stephen Sterling say wealth redistribution is needed to reduce global warming

It is no surprise that the government’s strategy on fracking has been deemed unlawful (Fracking guidance illegally ignores climate change, 7 March). Gas may be more fuel efficient than coal when burnt, but shale gas is 95% methane, and methane is a powerful greenhouse gas. According to the IPCC it has a global warming potential (GWP) 85 times greater than carbon dioxide over a 20-year timeframe. Misleadingly, HMG have relied on an obsolete figure of 36 for the GWP of methane, dating back to 2013.

Methane levels plateaued in the late 1990s, but have started to increase again over the past decade and have now reached 1,900 parts per billion, against a pre-industrial level of 700. Fracking is the obvious culprit. Satellite data over the US has shown that methane leakage exceeds 5% of shale gas production, an observation that fits with more recent studies by Nasa showing that fossil fuels are the major contributor to the continuing rise in atmospheric methane.

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A Maine legislative committee last week halted a representative’s plan to implement a $5/tonne carbon tax, but officials may take other measures to introduce or expand CO2 pricing in the US state.