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Mount Isa is looking to green energy and gravity storage in its disused mine shafts to secure a future for the city once its big mines close.

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With the right leadership, Australia can turn green hydrogen’s stumbles into a global triumph for heavy industry. Changlong Wang, Research fellow in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Monash University Stuart Walsh, Senior lecturer in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Germany has been unable to cancel EU carbon allowances against its coal plant closures after the European Commission rejected the government's calculation method, according to an official response from the German government to a parliamentary inquiry.

Climate 200's Simon Holmes a Court on the upcoming election, the role of independents, lessons from Trump, the nuclear boosters, and why we made the energy transition sound too hard.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Why is the green energy transition made to sound so hard? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Coalition’s nuclear plan takes a gamble with our electricity system that old coal will last the distance. It doesn’t account for the risks and extreme costs if that gamble fails.

The post Peter Dutton’s nuclear accounting trick #3: Hide the costs of keeping coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's first Indigenous-owned energy retailer is expanding into two more states just eight months after launching.

The post Indigenous-owned energy retailer branches further across NEM, supplies power to NBN appeared first on RenewEconomy.

NSW announces review into transmission planning in possible move to have more say about what and where things are built.

The post NSW announces review into transmission planning as it plots route to renewables and storage appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Musk's big battery tweets set Australia on a path to a renewables revolution in 2017. His utterings on X in this election could help shape the future of energy in Australia.

The post Elon Musk’s Tesla big battery tweets put Australia on road to green energy, now he might derail it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

First stage of one of South Australia's biggest battery projects has been bought up by a major Australian asset manager and secured a "tolling" deal.

The post South Australia’s biggest battery project secures a buyer and a “quite enormous” offtake deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Texas legislator filed a bill last week that would allow Texas voters to decide if the state should be prohibited from ever enacting a carbon tax or a clean fuel standard.

Integrating permanent removals into the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) would allow projects to generate credits and pave the way for net-negative emissions after 2050, provided strict conditions are met, the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change (EASBCC) said on Friday.

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) published Tuesday suggestions for lowering power costs by adjusting the distribution of credits funded through the state’s ETS to certain residents and businesses.

A pair of bipartisan US senators reintroduced legislation Thursday that would make clean energy projects eligible for a financing option currently only available to traditional energy projects.

One of Brazil’s largest airlines has initiated a pilot platform to help corporate clients source carbon credits, positioning it to grow a carbon trading business and prepare for compliance under the UN’s CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme, its sustainability head told Carbon Pulse.

The UK government has published an updated list of free carbon permit handouts by installation covered by the country's ETS for the period 2021-25, with allocations for the current year now 14% lower than the 2024 total.

Several Republican New Hampshire state lawmakers have proposed to tax trees used to generate voluntary carbon credits, following a law passed last year that mandated a study of lost tax revenues due to forest carbon offset programmes.

The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) will pivot in the second half of the year to a new direction that will target the millions of companies that have not yet made much progress on their mitigation journey, its executive director told Carbon Pulse.

A carbon removal crediting body plans to revise its enhanced rock weathering (ERW) methodology, it said Thursday.

Major European companies in key energy transition sectors are funnelling the bulk of their profits into shareholder payouts, instead of investing in making their businesses fit for the low-carbon transition, according to a report on Thursday.

Turkiye's ruling party has submitted a long-awaited climate change-related bill that foresees the creation of a carbon market board and an emissions trading system to the Parliament on Thursday.