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To drive down the cost of producing clean hydrogen, one of the world’s largest independent oil and gas companies has partnered with a Milwaukee-based startup and plans to use water vapour from industrial processes.

Behavioural scientist John Pickering on the challenges of getting social licence for wind, solar, battery and transmission projects. Plus: What’s big coal up to?

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Wind, solar and social licence appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewable energy industry fears role of EnergyCo under review as NSW assesses a key report on the health of its energy market.

The post Fears of further delays on renewable zones as EnergyCo under review by NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chelion Australia are excited to announce that the integrated components of the Matrix CAIO All-In- One Battery Cabinet have been granted Clean Energy Council (CEC) approval for sale in Australia.

The post Chelion Australia’s all-in-one battery cabinet for renewable energy deployment appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The lawsuit is the first in US to rely on a state’s constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment to challenge policies that fuel climate change. It won’t be the last.

The post Montana kids win historic climate lawsuit – here’s why it could set a powerful precedent appeared first on RenewEconomy.

On the one-year anniversary of the US IRA, we look at the top five impacts, and how Australia can follow suit.

The post All carrot, no stick: What Australia can learn from US approach to renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A single 2MW wind turbine at the Scroby Sands Wind Farm off the coast of Norfolk caught fire on Tuesday, but has since self-extinguished.

The post Turbine catches fire at one of UK’s oldest offshore wind farms appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BayWa and Atmos Renewables cut a deal on a major solar farm and announce new partnership that will be a "formidable force" for wind farm projects in Australia.

The post BayWa and Atmos cut deal on solar farm, join forces for big wind projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

By the war’s end, it will be too late to prevent the worst consequences of these terrible crimes. Global leaders must act now

• Andriy Yermak is head of the Office of the President of Ukraine; Margot Wallström is a former foreign minister of Sweden

Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who led the team that developed the world’s first nuclear weapons, quoted from ancient Hindu scriptures to illustrate his conflicting feelings about the forces his science unleashed: “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds,” he said. In his later years, Oppenheimer longed for a future “without nation states armed for war, and above all, a world without war”.

Yet there’s another kind of loss that Oppenheimer recognised only too clearly in his readings of the Bhagavad Gita, the ancient text he turned to after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Humans now possess the power to destroy the world they live in.

The people of Ukraine have grown cruelly familiar with war and death, inflicted on them by a nation state with vastly superior resources: they will never forget the human loss they have suffered in fighting to save their homeland. But Ukraine is also facing a destruction of habitat and nature on a scale that will reverberate far beyond its borders. While it is almost impossible to measure, the breadth and depth of this damage must be understood.

Russia has taken deliberate aim at Ukraine’s environment: its rivers, forests and fields. Many of Ukraine’s natural reserves – its animal and sea life, water and impressive biodiversity – have been terribly damaged or polluted. Toxins leak from its damaged industries and infrastructure. Global food security is at risk. The world cannot afford to ignore this growing environmental threat.

The overwhelming threat to Ukraine’s environment was highlighted in June, with the extraordinary collapse of the huge Nova Kakhovka dam, which held back one of the biggest water reservoirs in Europe. This was no coincidental collapse: the dam was under Russian control when an explosion inside an internal passageway blew its concrete heart to pieces. This unleashed a catastrophic flood that wrecked over 40 towns and villages and one of the world’s most valuable agricultural regions. Tonnes of oil were spilled into the Dnipro River. An uncountable number of landmines were strewn into the river and the Black Sea, leading to toxic leakage.

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Australia and the US state of California have signed an MoU to work together to combat climate change, focussing on clean energy and tech, trade, and nature-based solutions.  

NSW energy minister says she is open to possibility of putting part of HumeLink that will connect Snowy 2.0 project to rest of grid under ground.

The post NSW says it may put part of controversial Snowy link underground, despite higher costs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Access to fossil fuels allowed humanity to overshoot Earth’s biophysical limits. The crises we now face are all symptoms of this overshoot, and the only fix is to cut our demands on the biosphere. Mike Joy, Senior Researcher; Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The four hybrid power stations will eventually boast a combined installed capacity of 82MW and reduce diesel consumption by 38 million litres each year.

The post Gold miner completes first of four solar and battery hybrid power stations appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Stephanie Unwin, the CEO of Horizon Power, discusses how 400 residential and business customers had just one year to electrify after the local gas distribution decided to cut off the gas supply.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: How this regional town transitioned off the gas network in just 12 months appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new fund is being established to earn Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) from premium environmental plantings (EP), aiming to generate returns of 12-14% per annum.

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Almost half of the environmental experts on the social media network formerly known as Twitter have abandoned the platform in a trend one study found could damage climate change discourse.

The post Climate experts go cold on social media platform now known as X appeared first on RenewEconomy.

How charity investigators went undercover to outwit a global wildlife trafficking gang.

The California government on Tuesday provided an overview and timeline for developing its regulatory framework for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage, with the state facing strong support from industry and heavy pushback from environmental justice organisations.

Brookfield lines up Chinese renewable giant to potential build wind, battery and hydrogen components for its massive renewables investment plans in Australia.

The post Brookfield lines up Chinese wind, battery and hydrogen giant for Origin renewable plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.