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The 48MW Kincardine Offshore Wind farm has been completed off the coast of Aberdeenshire.

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A combination of high-profile grid failures, power outages, and mounting electricity bills, has put a rocket under the US home solar and battery market.

The post Blackouts and soaring electricity bills drive US homeowners to solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Santos sued by shareholder group alleging claims gas is "clean energy" are misleading, and that the company's zero emissions strategies are not credible.

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Those who catastrophise about the fate of smaller parties within coalitions may be betraying their southern perspective

At the press conference to announce the SNP’s landmark cooperation agreement with the Scottish Greens, Nicola Sturgeon could scarcely contain her glee. And no wonder. What better way to burnish her government’s environmental credentials at the UN climate conference, Cop26, in Glasgow than to trumpet its willingness to engage in “grownup politics” for the betterment of the planet?

In Westminster, Boris Johnson is struggling. Earlier this month, a new climate breakdown report reinforced the severity of the crisis. Yet civil servants fear he has left it too late to push the world’s worst polluters to cut their greenhouse gases in order to meet the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Having initially refused to give Sturgeon a seat at the Cop26 negotiating table, the prime minister must be spitting feathers at the way she has turned the spotlight on her government at his expense.

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Independent advice to ESB warned against capacity mechanism championed by Angus Taylor, and which may pay coal plants to do things they can't do.

The post Independent advice to ESB was strongly against Taylor’s favoured “Coalkeeper” subsidy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Angus Taylor's main goal when he became energy minister was to stop wind and solar in their tracks. He may finally be succeeding.

The post After three years, Taylor is finally succeeding in his promise to stop wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Clean Energy Finance Corp boss Ian Learmonth has an EV, but no garage, and struggles to find a fast EV charger in the city. He shares his views on the EV transition.

The post The Driven Podcast: Inner city blues – Where to find a fast EV charge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

26 August 1970: Government agency questions whether ‘greenhouse’ effect from the burning of fossil fuels will raise the Earth’s temperature

Too much fuss is being made about the fashionable word “pollution,” says the government agency which has been keeping an eye on it since 1863. The Chief Alkali Inspector, Mr FE Ireland, who published his annual report yesterday, says: “We must beware the obvious danger that emotions could be roused to the point of overriding common sense. This is not a problem to be tackled in a spirit of panic and those prophets of doom who predict the more bizarre kind of human catastrophe and paint rather self-righteous pictures of scientists as irresponsible villains exploiting humanity to the point of disaster could well be doing their (and our) cause a great disservice.”

Related: Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

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The ESB's recommended energy market reforms include proposal that could lump some wind and solar projects with the costs of network congestion.

The post The “sleeper” market reform that could punish new wind and solar projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Understanding the moral dimensions of climate decisions could help promote fairer and more effective climate action Jacqueline Lau, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Andrew Song, Lecturer / ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow (DECRA), University of Technology Sydney Jessica Blythe, Assistant Professor, Environmental Sustainability Research Centre, Brock University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Scientists say light pollution is a factor driving "worrying" declines in local insect populations.

It is believed to be the first time this behaviour of giant tortoises has been documented.

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California distributed the largest number of compliance offsets this week since winter 2020, with forestry projects contributing to the bumper issuance, according to data from state regulator ARB published Wednesday.

This fluffy-eared marsupial was listed as ‘vulnerable’ under the national environment law in 2016. Five years later, it meets the criteria to be listed as ‘endangered’. Australia must do better. Darcy Watchorn, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Kita Ashman, Threatened Species & Climate Adaptation Ecologist, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Rising speculative demand helped push the California-Quebec Q3 auction settlement to a new all-time high while regulated entities took home their smallest share ever, as the quarterly sale bucked past trends to settle at a premium to the secondary market price, according to results published Wednesday.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the first transaction of verified emissions reductions (VERs) from a forest project on US state-owned lands on Wednesday, with an energy company agreeing to purchase all of the voluntary carbon offsets generated over the initial decade.

‘Eco-friendly’ lights found to be worse than sodium ones – but both contribute to insect decline, says study

“Eco-friendly” LED streetlights produce even worse light pollution for insects than the traditional sodium bulbs they are replacing, a study has found.

The abundance of moth caterpillars in hedgerows by rural roads in England was 52% lower under LED lights and 41% lower under sodium lights when compared with nearby unlit areas.

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Extinction Rebellion protesters have blocked Oxford Circus in London, the site of one of its most famous occupations, as women took the lead on the third day of its latest campaign of UK protest.

Police charged into the road to seize the group's structure and were then surrounded by female protesters. Women who spoke to the Guardian claimed officers trampled them as they rushed to secure their cordon

• Extinction Rebellion protesters block Oxford Circus in London

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From crowd favourites to more unusual picks, these are the birds Australians are flocking to nominate

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Budding birders are flocking to nominate their favourite feathered friends for Guardian/BirdLife Australia’s 2021 Bird of the Year.

“I find this groundswell and outpouring of love for our birds really heartwarming,” says Sean Dooley from BirdLife Australia.

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