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Germany’s RWE on Thursday announced it would close its 1.56GW Aberthaw B coal-fired power station next year due to “challenging” market conditions – a move that will leave just four such plants operating in the UK.

European carbon prices on Thursday resoundingly bounced back from yesterday's two-week low, with buyers racing to pick up allowances as a month of slashed sale volumes began.

New Zealand’s announcement this week that it will cancel all privately held Kyoto units in its registry without compensation will invalidate more than 16 million credits, according to a Cabinet paper.

Dishwater and bathwater can be used to give vital support that councils often cannot afford to young trees

Instead of letting your dirty dishwater go down the drain, consider using it to water the trees on your street. That is the message from tree experts, who say survival rates for urban trees could be boosted significantly by volunteers.

Russell Miller, a London-based arboricultural consultant, said: “If you plant trees from good stock, at the right time, and provide enough water, you’d lose almost none prematurely. But get that wrong, and more than half can die.”

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Last week’s Emissions Reduction Fund auction contracted just 59,000 carbon credits from three projects, Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator said Thursday, by far the lowest volume of any of the nine auctions held so far.

Redirecting small portion of subsidies would unleash clean energy revolution, says report

Switching just some of the huge subsidies supporting fossil fuels to renewables would unleash a runaway clean energy revolution, according to a new report, significantly cutting the carbon emissions that are driving the climate crisis.

Coal, oil and gas get more than $370bn (£305bn) a year in support, compared with just $100bn for renewables, the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) report found. Just 10-30% of the fossil fuel subsidies would pay for a global transition to clean energy, the IISD said.

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All-Energy Australia, the nation’s most comprehensive clean and renewable energy event, has today announced the launch of visitor registration for the free-to-attend event.

The post Australia’s leading clean energy event launches registration appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Thinktank says country must focus on building abundance to avoid 2008-style financial crisis

Britain needs an overarching new sustainability law to bolster natural life-support systems and prevent economic and social collapse, according to proposals from one of the country’s most influential leftwing thinktanks.

The paper says policymakers have made a “catastrophic mistake” by underestimating the risks posed by environmental breakdown and the potential benefits of switching to a different economic approach that focuses on building abundance rather than running down resources.

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Downer to suffer big loss on construction of Murra Warra wind farm, showing it's not just solar projects causing problems for contractors.

The post Downer takes $45m hit on troubled Murra Warra Wind Farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Gupta's big battery at Port Augusta wins planning approval, key part of his plan to power the state's manufacturing industry with dispatchable renewables.

The post Gupta wins approval for Playford big battery, key part of ambitious solar plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

SA firm 1414 Degrees seals new to deal test its thermal energy storage solution in a range of agribusiness applications, including with sustainable agri pioneer, Nectar Farms.

The post 1414 Degrees to test its thermal energy storage with Nectar Farms appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Media and political event at partially completed Cooper's Gap wind farm in Queensland, which will be biggest in Australia once complete at end of financial year.

The post AGL shows off what will be Australia’s largest wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Highlights from the second day of the clean energy summit and why some are trying to see the future by looking into the past.

The post Old school views and rules, why Cogati stinks, and why syncons are a stop-gap appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Renewable energy developers to get new visibility on rival projects in effort to avoid wind and solar traffic jams in parts of the grid.

The post Privacy rules dumped as regulators seek to avoid wind and solar traffic jams appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carnegie Clean Energy seeks $5.5 million from investors as it tries to recapitalise and re-boot its wave energy technologies.

The post Carnegie puts out call to investors as it seeks to reboot wave energy plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Latest monthly allocation of Victoria solar rebates exhausted within hours, reinforcing concerns the state government scheme is effectively strangling the market.

The post Victoria solar rebate “disaster” continues, as August quota fills within two hours appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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