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Household batteries and solar will be critical for managing highs and lows of the grid
Latest AEMO study into virtual power plants shows how household batteries and solar will be critical for managing highs and lows of the grid.
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'E-highways' could slash UK road freight emissions, says study
System of overhead cables and adapted lorries could pay for itself within 15 years
The UK could eliminate the majority of the carbon dioxide emissions from road freight by installing overhead charging cables for electric lorries on “e-highways” across the country, a report by government-funded academics suggests.
The plan for a so-called electric road system would cost £19.3bn and put all but the most remote parts of the UK within reach of the trucks by the late 2030s, with the potential for the investment to pay for itself within 15 years, according to the report by the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight. The centre is backed by government research grants and industry partners including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and John Lewis.
Continue reading...Federal funding for coal power station feasibility study referred to watchdog
Labor refers federal funding for Queensland coal plant feasibility study to watch dog, and asks why fund was granted before a company with no energy experience even applied for it.
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Major Australian emitters team up to hammer out path to carbon neutral future
Know Your NEM: Home heating demand rises, but low prices locked in
Demand is up in past month, and wind was down, but renewables share has grown over last 12 months and is helping lock in low prices for next year or two.
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Solar + flow batteries take Brisbane home off grid, no back-up required
Redflow zinc-bromine flow batteries paired with solar take Tambourine Mountain home – and electric vehicle – off-grid and 100% renewable-powered.
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Europe vies with China for clean hydrogen superpower status
The rivalry between Europe and China in emission-free hydrogen technologies could become one of the defining business stories in the global effort to stop climate change.
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Australia’s big emitters sign up to co-operate on cutting supply chain emissions
A group of Australia's largest industrial emissions set to co-operate on reducing supply chain emissions through newly formed Energy Transitions Initiative.
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W.A. to spend $66m on solar and batteries for schools, communities and social housing
W.A. unveils plan to spend $66.3m on solar and battery storage for schools, isolated communities and social housing as part of a $5.5bn Covid recovery plan.
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Coronavirus doctor's diary: Will vaccine sceptics make trials a headache?
Coronavirus: How bad will winter really be?
How a scientific spat over how to name species turned into a big plus for nature
Labor asks for inquiry into how Shine Energy secured $4m grant for Collinsville coal plant study
Mark Butler asks auditor-general for investigation into how company invited to apply for grant two days after securing it
Labor has requested an auditor-general investigation into how Shine Energy secured $4m for a feasibility study into a coal-fired power station at Collinsville in north Queensland with an application two days after the grant was publicly announced.
Labor’s climate spokesman, Mark Butler, has written to the auditor-general requesting an inquiry into the supporting reliable energy infrastructure program, which Guardian Australia revealed resulted in “specific guidelines” drawn up for a one-off grant to the company.
Continue reading...Offer of weak, voluntary CO2 standards means Australia will remain dumping ground for dirty cars
Car industry's proposed voluntary scheme on emissions so weak it will barely cause a change from business as usual, which is Australia being dumping ground for dirty cars.
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Nasa Mars rover: Meteorite to head home to Red Planet
In the staggering dislocation of 2020, I think of the many gifts my parents gave me | Christos Tsiolkas
For most Australians, two events of biblical solemnity will define this year: fire and plague. How should we respond?
- This is part of a series of essays by Australian writers responding to the challenges of 2020
As soon as my partner and I completed two weeks’ quarantine after returning from Europe in late March, I went around to visit my mother. We had talked on the phone every day throughout the lockdown, and twice during our quarantine she had defied the warnings against elderly citizens leaving their homes to drive to our place and deliver food parcels.
There are images of the pandemic that will forever be part of our cultural memory: the long lines at Centrelink after thousands of Australians lost their jobs; the furious scrambling for goods in the supermarkets; and the desperate faces at the windows of those poor souls in Melbourne’s public estate towers who were sent into cruel and immediate detention when the city lurched haphazardly into a second lockdown.
Continue reading...Australia's recycling crisis: is the government's $190m on new infrastructure worth it?
Environment groups have welcomed the Coalition’s waste measures but say the use of recycled content must be made compulsory
It slipped by reasonably quietly amid the Covid-19 chaos, but earlier this month the Coalition government received something it has found hard to come by in its nearly seven years in power – praise on an environmental issue.
The praise was qualified, and could yet be retracted. It followed the environment minister, Sussan Ley, announcing the government would spend $190m on new recycling infrastructure, saying it would help divert 10,000 tonnes of plastic, paper and glass waste from landfill.
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion protesters lock themselves to rig on River Thames
Activists want London mayor Sadiq Khan to cancel Silvertown road tunnel project
Three Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to a rig in the middle of the Thames to protest against a planned road tunnel underneath the river in south-east London.
The keys to the locks around the protesters’ necks have been delivered to the capital’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, with a note asking him to come and talk to them. However, the mayor’s office issued a statement ignoring the request and confirming plans to build the Silvertown tunnel are continuing.
Continue reading...Extinction Rebellion protesters lock themselves to rig on River Thames
Activists want London mayor Sadiq Kahn to cancel Silvertown road tunnel project
Three Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to a rig in the middle of the Thames to protest against a planned road tunnel underneath the river in south-east London.
The keys to the locks around the protesters’ necks have been delivered to the city’s mayor, Sadiq Khan, with a note asking him to come and talk to them. However, the mayor’s office issued a statement ignoring the request and confirming plans to build the Silvertown tunnel are continuing.
Continue reading...Rosalind Franklin centenary: 'She would have been totally amazed'
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