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In Australia, AI-driven data centres are starting to approach the current industry leader for electricity demand, aluminium smelting. So what does this mean for energy use, investment and build out?

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New York’s new Cap-and-Invest (NYCI) programme could deliver significant financial benefits for households across the state, especially under a high allowance price scenario, while also advancing ambitious climate goals, according to a report released Monday.

US clean fuel programme credit values across West Coast schemes held steady heading into 2025 following a year marked by record surpluses and historically low prices.

A California-based company specialising in industrial materials has received nearly $8.7 mln from a federal cost share award towards set up of a commercial demonstration plant to reduce the carbon footprint of the aluminium production process.

ASX-listed Vulcan Energy Resources is marking a milestone in developing a sustainable EV battery supply chain by harnessing geothermal energy.

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The outgoing Biden Administration commits to help fund the deployment of a novel long-duration energy storage technology in the state of California.

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New analysis finds modern nuclear power plants are, on balance, about as "always on" as wind and solar farms – if those wind and solar farms were in the midst of a very bad renewable energy drought.

The post Peter Dutton’s “always on” nuclear power is about as reliable as wind and solar – during a renewables drought appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Indonesia’s National Carbon Exchange (IDX Carbon) has seen a boost in trading volume in January, with three more projects being added to generate carbon credits.

Wyoming lawmakers introduced a bill in the state legislature on Friday, detailing plans to repeal low-carbon energy standard requirements.

The US EPA provided the financial status Monday of more than 70 programmes funded by about $78 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).

The US Supreme Court declined two oil and gas companies’ requests for the country's highest court to review a Hawaii Supreme Court decision that allowed lawsuits seeking alleged climate-related damages to proceed.

Nuclear energy could power the UK’s turbocharged drive to unleash a wave of artificial intelligence technologies across the country by 2030, according to the government.

Four South Pole co-founders, including former CEO Renat Heuberger, are set to launch an advisory firm later this month that will focus on scaling sustainability startups, they announced in a statement on the company's new website.

The Brazilian subsidiary of international carbon exchange ACX, created through a partnership struck last year with Brazil’s B3 stock exchange, handled around R$100 million ($16 mln) in transactions involving nearly 4 mln tonnes of CO2 in its first six months of operation, according to local media.

The voluntary carbon market saw marginally higher retirements in 2024, when taking into account newer registries, amid an underlying shift towards higher quality credits from buyers, according to new analysis of credit retirements published on Monday.

The EU's plan to phase out palm oil and crop-based biofuels is compatible with international market rules, but implementation has to improve, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has established, ruling on a five-year-old Indonesian dispute.

Shell continued its voluntary carbon credit retirement spree last week to keep the market ticking over, amid a quiet start to the year that is relying on pockets of North American demand to prop up prices.

A Cambridge-headquartered microcomputer producer has partnered with an enhanced rock weathering (ERW) company to offer carbon removal credits for buyers of its single-board computers.

With the US presidential inauguration just one week away, heralding the return of former President Donald Trump, Latin American strides forward on carbon markets and energy transition contrast with the predicted pall over US climate policy.

The news from California is clear, but we don’t want to see it. It’s too confounding, big, complex. But we can sense the danger

When I send anxious texts to friends in Los Angeles – friends who have been evacuated or who are waiting to leave , friends escaping a fire zone, wondering if their life’s work has been destroyed, worrying about the smoke’s effect on an asthmatic child – I always begin with the same three words:are you OK?

But a continent away, watching photos and videos of a city I love being incinerated, overcome by waves of terror, grief and mourning, I have other questions.

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