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Developer of the biggest battery yet in South Australia says the company has struggled to make projects with four-hours of storage "commercially viable," let alone eight.

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There was a moment in Peter Dutton's pitch to voters when the full Trumpian catastrophe of his climate, energy and industry policies should have been exposed.

The post Dutton goes full Trump on climate, energy and industry as Albanese sets May 3 election date appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Demands for internal value chain accounting from companies risk delaying decarbonisation investments, North American Carbon World (NACW) participants heard Thursday.

Australia’s Labor government has announced A$24.5 million ($15 mln) to go towards cutting a cement maker's emissions, as the federal election campaign officially begins.

Panellists disagreed on an expert's assertion that the concepts of Scope 3 emissions measurement and net zero targets should be tossed in the bin at North American Carbon World (NACW) Thursday.

The Coalition’s policy won't bring new gas to market quickly enough to make a near-term impact on energy prices. Options to decrease demand are a much better bet.

The post Opposition misses key opportunity to deliver cost-of-living relief appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Blue hydrogen producers may more often use 45Q tax credits rather than the generous 45V clean hydrogen tax credits due to the latter's higher carbon intensity standards, according to a new report.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Thursday that it had voted to withdraw defending its rules in court that required companies to disclose climate-related risks and GHG emissions.

States and municipalities must lead on methane reductions given a lack of federal support for this under the new Trump administration, a California official said during the North American Carbon World (NACW) conference in Los Angeles on Thursday.

A research group out of Washington DC is calling on federal lawmakers and state governments to maintain and bolster carbon removal (CDR) policy as the US government attempts to bow out of global climate efforts.

A Mexican state whose carbon tax is finally up and running after initially being repealed nearly two years ago is once again in hot water for it, according to a senior official speaking Thursday at the North American Carbon World (NACW) conference in Los Angeles.

The sponsor of a California senate bill that was initially introduced to reform and reauthorise the cap-and-trade programme on Wednesday amended its text to instead indefinitely extend the state’s non-partisan agency’s GHG reporting mandates.

Dutton claims Labor wants to cut aluminium and heavy industry - but he hasn't checked his party's own modelling. We have.

The post Election Watch: Dutton’s nuke and gas plan relies on the death of Australian industry, and its smelters appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Verifying the purity of CO2 that flows through carbon capture and storage (CCS) hubs will be vital as the industry develops, in order to avoid any impurities from jeopardising the network — but the industry is still in early stages, with standards in development and monitoring equipment not yet commercial.

Many carbon projects fall short of approval due to issues with additionality, financial transparency, and scientific rigour, according to the CEO of a Bay Area non-profit that has approved just 1% of the over 5,000 projects it has reviewed in the past decade.

How a ‘dark energy’ experiment could upend Einstein's theory of the universe.

Both chambers of Bahrain’s legislature this week voted on and approved a bill that includes the creation of a carbon tax, leaving final ratification and promulgation up to the king.

A new bill introduced in the California Assembly aims to expand the regulatory authority of state regulator ARB to address air pollution from indirect sources, including facilities like ports, warehouses, and rail yards.

Bloc set to accept compromise that would allow companies to trade carbon credits, in blow to climate finance

The long-awaited carbon levy on international shipping that was to supply vital climate finance looks set to be significantly diluted, after the EU appeared to be backing down in global talks, in a blow to vulnerable countries.

The EU is set to accept a compromise that would allow companies to enter into a system of trading carbon credits instead of paying directly for their emissions, the Guardian has learned.

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Carbon infrastructure company Xpansiv will launch in April a new standardised spot contract for Phase 1 of CORSIA, the UN’s international aviation emissions offsetting scheme, it announced Thursday, but there was no corresponding notice of new futures contracts.