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Gas industry people have been saying gas is the transition fuel for at least 30 years. It's never been true in all that time, and it's not true now.

The post Australia’s transcontinental gas pipe dream: It simply doesn’t add up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Potential for electric vehicles in clean energy transition is more than just zero emissions transport, and Tesla is now building vehicle-to-grid tech into its EVs.

The post Tesla’s switch on V2G technology is big news for the clean energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Germany boasts the highest energy security level in the world, due in large part to the wide spread use of renewable energy sources in the country.

The post Germany leads globally in energy security levels, thanks to renewables – study appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Jemena will tap InMoment’s technology and intuitive professional services to accelerate its Voice of the Customer program.

The post InMoment partners with Jemena to boost its customer experience improvement program appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Only weeks after reopening, Australia's fire-ravaged Mogo Zoo had to close again because of Covid-19.

Taylor's discussion paper on technology roadmap puts focus on gas and CCS, and appears a desperate attempt to find technology winners that are not wind, solar and storage.

The post Taylor puts gas and CCS at centre of technology roadmap, coal and nuclear not excluded appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Compliance-oriented entities increased their RGGI allowance (RGA) holdings after the Northeast US ETS' first quarterly sale of 2020 and as the coronavirus pandemic caused prices to briefly crash on the secondary market, according to a report published Wednesday.

Nasa's Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken are a week away from their flight to the space station.

How fast can an animal run? How intense was the fire? Picking which species to help after a bushfire tragedy is no easy task. John Woinarski, Professor (conservation biology), Charles Darwin University Dale Nimmo, Associate Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Rachael Gallagher, Senior Lecturer/ARC DECRA Fellow, Macquarie University Sarah Legge, Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) will stay tethered to the WCI floor price through the end of the year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic curtailing economic activity and emission output in the linked ETS, analysts said Wednesday.

UK businessman Sir Richard Branson is looking to Saturday to debut one of his new space systems.

Survey by Shenhua environmental consultant shows decline of 87% in koala numbers since 2012-13, as campaigners plead for impact of bushfires to weigh on mine conditions

Koalas on the site of the planned Shenhua Watermark coalmine in New South Wales are heading towards localised extinction “even before the mine commences”, according to company documents.

Meeting minutes for the mine’s koala technical working group say there has been a steep drop in koala populations at the mine site in the Liverpool Plains.

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Exclusive: The report does not consider alternatives to gas, or mention climate change and the financial risk of investing in fossil fuel as emissions are cut

Australian taxpayers should underwrite a massive expansion of the domestic gas industry – including helping open new fields and build hundreds of kilometres of pipelines – according to a group advising on Covid-19 recovery.

A leaked draft report by a manufacturing taskforce advising the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission (NCCC) recommends the Morrison government make sweeping changes to “create the market” for gas and build fossil fuel infrastructure that would operate for decades.

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Rapidly rising water overwhelmed dams and forced the evacuation of about 10,000 people in central Michigan, where flooding struck communities along rain-swollen waterways and the governor said downtown could be 'under approximately nine feet of water' by Wednesday

• Michigan: thousands evacuated after 'catastrophic' dam failures

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Massachusetts electricity generators reduced emissions under the Global Warming Solution Act (GWSA) programme in 2019 as a result of milder weather and increased imports, but allowance prices still remained high due to illiquid conditions, a new report showed.

The European Commission will propose next year a new initiative to compensate farmers and foresters for CO2 emissions sequestration, opening the door to including market-based measures.

EUAs climbed 5% to top €21 early on Wednesday, further extending their May high as prices leapt once the market had absorbed Poland's large auction, the last sale for several days in a supply-starved holiday period.

China’s National Energy Administration (NEA) has released a draft mechanism for clean energy consumption that would expand its power market reform, an announcement coming days before the annual National People’s Congress meets to address COVID-19 recovery and the next 5-year plan.

In the short term, the answer for North Queensland might be doing more of the same, but swapping the coal out for renewable energy and redeploying the coal work force.

The post Powering North Queensland: How to swap coal for renewables in LNP heartland appeared first on RenewEconomy.