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A community battery has been commissioned in the Perth suburb of Harrisdale to play an integral role in the state’s massive virtual power plant pilot.

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Updated: Origin buys stake in Australia redox flow battery technology company, and intends to trial its long duration storage at its Eraring coal plant.

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Genex says its first big battery is now energised, and will be up and running in time for the summer peak.

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The cross-stakeholder Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity initiative (VCMI) on Wednesday published its guidelines to help buyers ensure integrity when purchasing carbon credits for voluntary climate pledges, a partial release coming a year on from its initial draft that leaves further details for later in the year.

The UK's statutory climate body criticises the government for backing new oil and gas projects.

Report by RSPB, ELF and Friends of the Earth say even cases with good prospects of success are being abandoned

Prohibitively high costs are pricing individuals and community groups out of bringing legal challenges to protect the environment, major NGOs say.

A joint report by the RSPB, the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) and Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland, says cases raising concerns about loss of green space, wildlife habitat and the climate crisis have been abandoned because of fears about costs, even when they have good prospects of success. It suggests the number of environmental judicial review applications may have halved in a decade.

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Two US senators have introduced a bipartisan clean cookstoves bill aimed at mitigating health, environmental, and economic issues caused by exposure to smoke from traditional stoves and open fires.

The UK government will consult later this year on how it can develop as a global carbon crediting hub, an official said on Tuesday, while ruling out prospects that the country could buy Article 6 credits in the near term.

The Washington Department of Ecology on Tuesday published the schedule for distributing no-cost allowances to natural gas utilities under the state’s cap-and-invest regulation with one company receiving the majority.

Britain's independent climate change advisors have cited "a missed opportunity" after the government published a new climate goal delivery plan, the committee stating it was now even less confident in the country meeting its goals from 2030 onwards than one year ago.

Climate Investment Funds on Tuesday said it earmarked $40 million in grant financing that will allow Indigenous and local communities across the Global South to engage in natural climate solutions.

Microsoft over the past year ratcheted up its contracted volume of engineered carbon removal credits that will store GHGs for thousands of years, though still procured millions of tonnes of nature-based units with shorter permanence horizons, the tech giant said Tuesday.

A Texas-based sustainability technology firm on Tuesday announced a multi-year agreement to purchase carbon removal credits from a phytoplankton dispersal methodology.

Around half of the cuts in on-farm agricultural emissions required to maintain a 1.5C global temperature pathway are either cost-neutral or yield positive returns on investment, but major barriers are still hindering adoption amongst growers, according to a new study by a major consultancy.

Community consultations to open for new offshore wind zone in Southern Ocean, including Portland and stretching from Victoria to South Australia.

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The trial dates for a natural gas-fired power generator’s legal challenge to Washington cap-and-trade regulation were delayed by four months following an agreement between the disputing parties and the judge on Monday, allowing lawyers more time to review the case.

Australia wants to allow export of CO₂ for the purpose of “sequestration”, or storage under the sea. Fossil fuel companies, or research organisations, would need to first apply for an export permit. Samantha Hepburn, Professor, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Early participants in the voluntary biodiversity credit market have welcomed the move by France and the UK to develop a global market framework, but stress the need for the government process to work with existing initiatives.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday announced it will host its second voluntary carbon markets (VCM) convening in July that may inform future guidance or interpretations related to the agency’s authority over the sector.