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Origin trebles profits from electricity markets and joins other big utilities in promising more investment in green energy. But the focus is less on renewables, and more on storage and market control.

The post Origin makes clean sweep of big utilities cashing in on high prices. Will they now go green? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) revisions will include an insurance mechanism for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects, validation mandates, and changes to third party verification provisions, in addition to carbon intensity (CI) model updates, the regulator confirmed Wednesday.

Rewilding is helping to save species from the brink of extinction. But reintroducing species to islands or fenced havens have limitations. What if we could use flat topped mesas as well? Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral research fellow in conservation, University of Sydney Thomas Newsome, Senior lecturer in ecology, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A 285MW wind farm once blocked by the federal environment minister is now heading into construction as a 100% publicly owned asset – bought with the help of Queensland coal royalties.

The post Queensland coal giant buys construction-ready wind farm once rejected by federal Coalition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Origin Energy says the Eraring coal generator, which will stay open to address "reliability concerns", is prone to trips when needed most.

The post Is Eraring reliable? Origin says biggest coal plant prone to trips when needed most appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Mexican state of Queretaro and a Mexico City-based environmental markets platform launched Wednesday a national carbon credit registry tailored to local conditions, seeking to help facilitate the development of the nation's carbon market.

California regulator ARB has doubled offset issuance over the latest three-week period compared to its prior biweekly distribution, yet is 30% behind year-to-date (YtD) levels at the same time in 2023.

In regulating sulphur emissions from ships, the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) 2020 regulations may have inadvertently contributed to global warming, according to research released this week.

Big business in the UK plans to buy much higher volumes of carbon credits than current levels to meet sustainability targets, finds a new survey.

District councils in low-lying areas say they have cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to fund pumping stations

The costs of preventing major floods caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall have fuelled a growing financial crisis among district councils in low-lying areas of England, ministers have been warned.

Districts in the east of the country say they are having to cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to meet dramatic and unsustainable rises in payments levied to fund pumping stations used to protect communities from flooding.

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Current climate standards don't go far enough to incentivise the innovations needed to deliver on net zero, and should be expanded to include a company's broader influence on the planet, according to a new paper.

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora.

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the moon setting into streams of aurora.

The scale of the challenge of hitting Australia’s renewable energy target points to the need for a more standardised and inclusive approach to sharing the benefits than we have seen so far. Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Several NGOs are plotting legal action against a new drilling permit for gas extraction off the coast of Germany, they announced Wednesday.

A voluntary carbon standard focused on durable carbon removals is consulting on two new modules concerning CO2 storage via mineralisation.

Ukraine will need an estimated $20 billion of investments to advance its renewable energy sector under a plan to increase its share in the country's energy mix to 27% by 2030, according to a government announcement this week.

WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames ‘climate cult’ after prime minister misses fossil fuel company’s party

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If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.

That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.

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Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.