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NRMA backs energy upstart as solar offerings extend to “batteries on wheels”
NRMA joins funding round to small energy retailer looking to expand its offerings of solar and batteries to EV automation software.
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No, signing the global methane pledge won't end the backyard barbecue – it'll strengthen Aussie industries
Northern NSW floods: aerial footage shows extent of flooding in Moree – video
Residents of New South Wales are staring down more floods as two weather systems bring increased rainfall to the saturated state. Flooding has hit the town of Moree, with large parts of the farming region under water. Lismore residents in the state’s northern rivers region have been told to prepare to evacuate amid the prospect of a third major flood there this year. Moderate rain is expected along the coast and ranges further south into the state’s mid-north coast but heavy rainfall is no longer expected in the area. Other towns at risk of flooding include Hay, Wentworth, Ballina, Yamba and Maclean
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- NSW weather: almost entire state at flood risk as Lismore braces for third major event this year
- Flood warnings in place in Australia’s eastern states, with predictions the wet weather could persist until the middle of next week
Cannon-Brookes says AGL board not fit to deliver decarbonisation strategy
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes calls on AGL shareholders to vote through all four of Grok Ventures' nominations for the gentailer's board.
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Australia scrambles to keep up with battery inverters, hydrogen and green targets
Australia and its states have hugely ambitious renewables targets. Now it must update its connection rules to ensure it can plug in the new wind, solar and batteries.
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Cop 27: Uganda-Tanzania oil pipeline sparks climate row
A green trifecta: how a concrete alternative can cut emissions, resource use and waste
Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany
Two protesters pelt painting with potatoes and glue their hands to wall at Museum Barberini in Potsdam
Claude Monet has become the latest artist to be the focus of food-related climate protests, after members of a German environmental group threw mashed potatoes over one of his paintings in a Potsdam museum on Sunday.
Nine days after Just Stop Oil emptied tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, two activists from Letzte Generation (Last Generation) entered the Museum Barberini and doused Monet’s Les Meules (Haystacks) with potato before glueing their hands to the wall.
Continue reading...Climate crisis poses ‘growing threat’ to health in UK, says expert
Exclusive: Prof Dame Jenny Harries warns of dangers to food security, flooding and insect-borne diseases
The climate crisis poses a “significant and growing threat” to health in the UK, the country’s most senior public health expert has warned.
Speaking to the Guardian, Prof Dame Jenny Harries, the chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said there was a common misconception that a warmer climate would bring net health benefits due to milder winters. But the climate emergency would bring far wider-reaching health impacts, she said, with food security, flooding and mosquito-borne diseases posing threats.
Continue reading...“We don’t need solar technology breakthroughs, we just need connections”
One of world's best solar analysts releases her annual observations, dispelling some myths and including some home truths for the solar and battery storage industries.
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Confusing messaging hampers our ability to prepare for rising flood waters
Flood-affected communities are getting conflicting information, right when we need consistency to make crucial decisions which will save lives and properties
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Echuca is on edge. Our near neighbours, at Rochester, are bracing for a second peak.
We were awake as the rain pelted our roof at 4am on Saturday morning. We are tired, emotional and fragile. Processing information and making decisions is getting harder as the anticipation and preparation takes a mental and physical toll.
Continue reading...Just Stop Oil protest stops traffic in north London
Police arrest 17 protesters after activists glued themselves to the road in Upper Street, Islington
Just Stop Oil activists have glued themselves to a road in north London on the 22nd day of the group’s campaign of civil unrest.
About 20 protesters stopped traffic in Upper Street in Islington, north London, on Saturday.
Continue reading...Landowners call for scrapping of plans to ban solar energy from England’s farmland
Farmers say having solar sites allows them to subsidise food production during less successful years
Farmers have urged whoever succeeds Liz Truss as UK prime minister to abandon plans to ban solar energy from most of England’s farmland, arguing that it would hurt food security by cutting off a vital income stream.
Truss, who resigned on Thursday, and her environment secretary, Ranil Jayawardena, hoped to ban solar from about 41% of the land area of England, or about 58% of agricultural land, the Guardian revealed last week.
Continue reading...Has Queensland overpumped its pumped hydro plans?
Queensland's energy plans begs the question: what is the true value of longer duration storage? And how much, really, is needed?
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CP Daily: Friday October 21, 2022
Producers prefer 2022 vintages, financials scoop 2022-23 CCAs but step away from RGGI
US social cost of carbon metric upheld by court, again
Industrial heat pumps could cut 77 mln tonnes of GHGs in US in 2030 -study
US state laws may constrain CCS rollout across power sector, say experts
Where once there was coal smog, a cloud of uncertainty now hangs over Lithgow
The NSW town is in a hurry to transition from mining and power generation – but attracting new industries has its own pitfalls
Lithgow, with its coalmines, power stations and cauldron-like geography, used to be a lure for young public health officials, keen to study the effects of the heavy pollution. Nestled on the western edge of the Blue Mountains about two hours from Sydney, the gritty industrial town hosted Australia’s first steelworks. Residents were given coal for next to nothing to burn during the cold winters.
“The place was just full of smog,” says Chris Jonkers, now an activist with the Lithgow Environment Group, whose father worked in the nearby state coalmine for about nine years before its closure in 1964. “He’d come home black every day.”
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