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UN Secretary-General António Guterres says rules around corporate emissions reporting are “wide enough to drive a diesel truck through”. Keegan Robertson, PhD Candidate and Research Assistant, Curtin University Hugh Finn, Lecturer, Curtin University Ifan Odwyn Jones, Emeritus Professor, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s only solar maker names Richard Petterson as its new CEO, to take the helm at the Adelaide-based company as it expands its PV offerings.

The post Australia’s only solar manufacturer names new CEO as it branches into agrivoltaics appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Brookfield’s head of renewables Luke Edwards discusses the surprise bid for Origin Energy. Plus: Tesla margins deliver wake up call to Toyota.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: Brookfield’s $20 billion green energy plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

On current emissions rates, the world has a 50:50 chance of breaching 1.5°C warming in the next nine years.

The post “Nine years left:” Emissions record in 2022 puts world on course to breach 1.5° appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Just a couple of months after his unceremonious departure from Snowy Hydro, Paul Broad has been tapped by the NSW premier as a "special advisor" on energy.

The post “Best and brightest:” Perrottet hires ex-Snowy chief as energy advisor, bats for gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

There is a 50% chance dangerous warming limit will be breached in nine years, experts say.

Daniel Andrews promises to install 100 neighbourhood batteries across the state if re-elected later this month, to make the most of the state’s rooftop solar resource.

The post Victoria Labor promises another 100 neighbourhood batteries to soak up rooftop solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

ESB puts forward two new hybrid models to try and solve grid access issues, to the relief of renewable energy developers.

The post Renewable hopes buoyed as hybrid models considered for grid access and congestion appeared first on RenewEconomy.

‘Loss and damage’ finance for developing nations and domestic support for clean energy industries may be politically difficult – but they are necessary investments

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The money conversation is always fraught at the Cop climate negotiations, and this year it is particularly difficult given economic trouble in rich countries. But the global energy crisis works in favour of clean energy transition and achieving more meaningful emissions cuts down the track.

The world is still short of the Paris goal to provide $100bn in climate finance to developing countries. And only a fraction of the money provided is for dealing with climate change impacts, which is what developing countries need most. Financial needs for climate change adaptation in developing countries are estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars per year.

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You have to hand it to Neoen Australia. Each time it has installed a big battery in Australia it has effectively changed the rules of the game, and pushed the technology into new frontiers. The latest innovation is the newly announced Blyth battery, which will be used to ensure delivery of “24/7 power” to the […]

The post Neoen finds another game changing use and a new frontier for a very big battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

At current levels of emissions, there is a 50% chance the planet will reach the 1.5℃ global average temperature rise in just nine years. Pep Canadell, Chief Research Scientist, Climate Science Centre, CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere; Executive Director, Global Carbon Project, CSIRO Corinne Le Quéré, Royal Society Research Professor of Climate Change Science, University of East Anglia Glen Peters, Research Director, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Judith Hauck, Helmholtz Young Investigator group leader and deputy head of the Marine Biogeosciences section at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Universität Bremen Julia Pongratz, Professor of Physical Geography and Land Use Systems, Department of Geography, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Philippe Ciais, Directeur de recherche au Laboratoire des science du climat et de l’environnement, Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) Pierre Friedlingstein, Chair, Mathematical Modelling of Climate, University of Exeter Robbie Andrew, Senior Researcher, Center for International Climate and Environment Research - Oslo Rob Jackson, Professor, Department of Earth System Science, and Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Stanford University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowances (RGA) prices traded lower through the US midterm election week and shrugged off a cooler US Consumer Price Index (CPI) reading, as market participants geared up for the Q4 WCI auction and look to guidance from Pennsylvania's governor-elect on the state's RGGI future.

Report says sensible – and smart – policies will support the huge new load on the power system as Australia transitions to battery-electric cars. 

The post Will the mass uptake of EVs blow up the power grid? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The French Senate has approved a bill that will require parking lots with a minimum of 80 spaces to be covered with a canopy of solar panels.

The post New French law mandates solar panels on new parking lots appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California regulator ARB on Thursday announced an investigation into a Wisconsin-based livestock project, coming just two years after the agency invalidated offsets from the same dairy digester for non-compliance with state permit requirements.

New ARENA-backed research identifies 1,500 new "water and gravity battery" pumped hydro storage sites where one reservoir is already in place.

The post Batteries of gravity and water: We found 1,500 new pumped hydro sites next to existing reservoirs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The asset management arm of a Swiss bank has launched a new fund to capitalise on “inefficiencies” in the carbon markets.

US President Joe Biden on Thursday at COP27 proposed a GHG emissions disclosure rule for federal contractors that would also require major suppliers to set science-based targets to cut their carbon output.

‘Bleak’ findings come from report at Cop27 that notes ‘no sign’ of urgent cuts needed to stop climate breakdown

Carbon emissions from fossil fuels will hit record levels this year, according to a comprehensive analysis. The finding represents a brutal contrast with the need to cut emissions by half by 2030 to restrict global heating to 1.5C and avoid the most devastating impacts of the climate crisis.

There is no sign of the decline needed, the researchers said, heaping further pressure on the countries whose representatives are meeting at the UN Cop27 climate summit in Egypt to deliver real and rapid action. Other scientists described the news as “bleak” and “deeply depressing”.

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Verra is overhauling internal processes in a bid to clear an “unprecedented” surge of often poorly documented project requests that threatens to stifle the rapid expansion of the voluntary carbon market (VCM).