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Zen Energy signs MoU to help power huge magnetite mine with firmed renewables, in move to underpin South Australia green iron production.

The post Zen inks deal to supply firmed renewables for iron ore mine with load “bigger than Olympic Dam” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A sustainable project aims to repurpose encroacher bush to create building blocks to solve Namibia’s housing crisis

“People think the house would smell because the blocks are made of all-natural products, but it doesn’t smell,” says Kristine Haukongo. “Sometimes, there is a small touch of wood, but otherwise it’s completely odourless.”

Haukongo is the senior cultivator at the research group MycoHab and her job is pretty unusual. She grows oyster mushrooms on chopped-down invasive weeds before the waste is turned into large, solid brown slabs – mycoblocks – that will be used, it’s hoped, to build Namibian homes.

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CCC says delays and reverses under Rishi Sunak have left UK drastically off track from Paris commitments

The new Labour government must oversee a massive ramping up of renewable energy generation in this parliament or the UK will breach its international obligations under the Paris agreement, the government’s climate watchdog has said.

The Conservative government left the country drastically off track to meet its international commitments, despite setting the carbon-cutting target before hosting the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, the Committee on Climate Change found in its most recent annual report.

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Targeted government support will be needed to scale the supply of high-integrity carbon credits and to ensure strong demand and price premiums for these issuances, the OECD said in a report published Thursday.

The hatching of 60 eggs is a record for the endangered species in this century.

A Swedish biodiversity developer has partnered with the country’s main digital forest and timber marketplace to sell its biodiversity credits on the platform.

Either the federal government needs to boost its subsidies by tens of billions a year, or plans for renewable hydrogen to replace fossil fuels are just greenwash.

The post Renewable hydrogen: Superpower, or green mask for fossil super villains? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Credits tied to single ecosystem services have the potential to drive corporate action in the emerging biodiversity market, as they could help companies effectively address their dependencies on nature, a consultant has told Carbon Pulse.

Leading e-waste processor will add solar recycling to its repertoire after getting financial backing to reboot a panel processing facility in NSW.

The post Solar recycling: eWaste outfit gets $5m equity boost to reboot panel processing plant appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Farmers will have to take on expensive responsibilities in the event of an emergency if the Coalition's nuclear policy comes to fruition, the government says.

The post Nuclear power plan puts thousands of farms in “radiation alert zone” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

RMIT engineers invent a new device that could offer a cheaper and more efficient method of seabed testing used to design offshore wind farms.

The post Australian researchers zero in on cheaper seabed testing for offshore wind appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Smart energy company GridBeyond launches frequency control ancillary services auto-rebidder designed to meet the needs of Australia's increasingly renewable market.

The post GridBeyond launches new demand flexibility tech to smooth Australia’s “spikey loads” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A total of 10 projects are moving to the next stage of development in Australia's first offshore wind zone after another batch were granted feasibility licences.

The post Offshore wind: Gippsland zone fills out as more licences awarded for massive projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Widespread exemptions in carbon pricing have resulted in lower-than-expected financial burdens on households, though higher-income earners tend to benefit more due to their consumption patterns, according to new research published by the IMF.

Cutting electricity bills would persuade more people to install heat pumps, the government is told.

Cutting electricity bills would persuade more people to install heat pumps, the government is told.

The near complete skeleton of a stegosaurus - named Apex - is 11ft (3.4m) tall and 27ft long, Sotheby's says.

A voluntary carbon market platform has called on the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi) to urgently provide clear guidance on the use of carbon credits for mitigating Scope 3 emissions, amid expectations that direction from the standard-setting organisation may not come until late 2025.

Those pushing the nuclear option are making some questionable claims about the capacity of renewable energy

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Advocacy for the Coalition’s hopes to build nuclear power plants is increasingly coming with large side-orders of misinformation, not just on the speed or costs of nuclear but on renewables.

Dr Adi Paterson, the chair of the Nuclear for Australia advocacy group, has taken to attacking the credentials of CSIRO experts while going hyperbolic with his rhetoric.

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The bidding activities of some of Australia's biggest utilities was so blatant, even the regulator took notice. Can they really be trusted on consumer energy resources? There's a problem here.

The post Energy retailers cash in and send customer bills soaring as coal plants fail again appeared first on RenewEconomy.