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The first wind turbine in what will be world’s first utility-scale, on-grid wind, solar and battery energy storage project has been installed.

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Ratch Australia begins electrification of its 180MW Mount Emerald wind farm, says full operation expected to commence in November this year.

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Berri Barmera Council issues tender to build and operate 10MW solar farm in South Australia Riverland region.

The post SA council launches tender to build 10MW solar farm in Riverland region appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Climate change denial is at the root of the half-baked policies and outright wrecking that have blighted the past decade

I needed to write this column really quickly, otherwise we might have had a new prime minister before I’d finished, and the climate policy we don’t have might have changed several times.

I gave myself 30 minutes because that reflects the fickle care and short-termism that has been afforded climate change in Australia in recent years.

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Darren Miller, the co-founder of electricity retailer Mojo Power has been named as the new chief executive of ARENA.

The post Mojo co-founder Darren Miller gets top job at ARENA appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Whether cutting oil production or crediting corn ethanol under the LCFS would help achieve carbon cuts in the transport sector emerged as contentious issues as California regulator ARB on Monday sought advice on how to deal with rising emissions from the sector.

Malcolm Turnbull gets to continue as PM – at the cost of his credibility and at the behest of the party’s ring wing. Australia will now be looking for leadership. But they won’t expect it to come from the federal Coalition.

The post Turnbull survives as puppet of right wing, as Australia burns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Saudi Arabian fund that has had its eye on Tesla is now in talks with EV rival Lucid Motors

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So the NEG is dead – where to now? It’s time for politics to adopt the renewables model: a decentralised and distributed framework.

The post The NEG’s dead – let states and territories lead on energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

EU carbon prices could average €35-40 over 2019-2023, accelerating coal-to-gas power switching and potentially questioning the rationale for keeping old coal and lignite power plants running beyond 2021, analysts said on Tuesday.

One woman's mission to turn the tide on India's polluted waterways by recycling leftover flowers.

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We need to move past biased, opaque models for energy policies. Shirin Malekpour, Research Leader in Strategic Planning and Futures Studies, Monash Sustainable Development Institute, Monash University Enayat A. Moallemi, Research Associate, UNSW Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The only sea creature known to attack blue whales is the orca, also known as a 'killer whale'. But humans present a much bigger threat to them. Wally Franklin, Researcher and co-director of the The Oceania Project, Southern Cross University Trish Franklin, Researcher and co-director of The Oceania Project , Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices advanced nearly 2% on Monday to extend further their 10-year high above €18.50 as observers continued to predict additional rises.

A new study on ants and robots has shown that having more workers is not necessarily better when working in confined spaces.

The Trump administration is expected to unveil its replacement draft for the US EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP) on Tuesday, a proposal that would reportedly result in far fewer GHG reductions than the previous Obama-era iteration and limit the scope of eligible emissions reduction activities.

A free-market approach won’t rescue the world from climate change, argue Richard Vernon and Dave Hunter, while Nicholas Falk says the UK can learn from China. Philip Steadman offers ideas for keeping cities cool

Larry Elliott rightly directs our attention to the impending perils of climate change and to some of the impediments to their avoidance (Capitalism can crack climate change. But it must take risks, 16 August). His suggested solution “that the world needs to wage war against climate change” misses the most important component. Climate change is driven by climate changers: you and me and 7.6 billion fellow humans, increasing by 83 million a year and with effects on much more than climate change.

Benign and non-coercive means to reverse that growth, to achieve something like the 2.5 to 3 billion that experts estimate the planet could sustainably support, are well known. They include the much wider and free provision of reproductive health services, including family planning, to all who need them, and of both general and health education especially to the large number of the world’s girls currently denied them.
Richard Vernon
Oxford

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EU carbon allowances are expected to continue to climb for the rest of the year as speculators keep buying in anticipation of further increases and utilities lend support, analysts said, following several weeks of strong price gains that have already pushed prices to their highest for a decade.

Locals say wildlife charity acting like a ‘corporate monstrosity’ over £5-a-day fee

The RSPB has been accused of acting like a “corporate monstrosity” for attempting to impose parking charges at one of north Wales’ most scenic birdwatching locations.

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds plans to charge £5 a day for peak season visits to the South Stack reserve in Anglesey, despite renting the 780 acres of public land for just £7.

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