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Origin Energy has submitted plans to build a two-stage, 300MW solar and battery storage project near Morgan in the Riverland Region of South Australia. In an application to the State Commission Assessment Panel last week, Origin said it was seeking consent for Stage 1 of the project, which would install up to 150MW (120MWac) of...

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China's signature foreign policy is controversial for lots of reasons. But the environmental damage potentially wrought by the project has received scant attention. Mischa Turschwell, Research Fellow, Griffith University Christopher Brown, Senior Lecturer, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University Ryan M. Pearson, Research Fellow, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Brisbane-based Tritium launches modular electric vehicle charging platform that will enable sites to scale up charging rates as demand grows.

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Despite being an easy, cheap way to drive down power costs and emissions, energy efficiency has been glaringly absent from Australian government policies. Has the switch flipped?

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Analysts put $A20 billion valuation on Tesla's battery and solar business, more than combined worth of AGL and Origin, but say it could be worth three times that much.

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Australia labelled one of G20's worst for climate action in latest Climate Transparency Report, lagging behind its international peers on green transition.

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The Stirling High School students used satellite imagery and computer software to search for the birds.

Young climate activists call for urgent action at Mock COP as Covid delays UN climate talks.

Huge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world’s remaining forests

Infrastructure megaprojects risk pushing the world’s remaining forests past a “dangerous tipping point” and making climate targets unachievable, a report says.

Tens of thousands of miles of roads and railways are planned alongside mines and dams, opening up the forests of South America, south-east Asia and central Africa to destruction, according to the report by a coalition of 25 research and conservation organisations called the New York Declaration on Forests Assessment Partners. Today, almost half of all large mines – more than 1,500 – are in forests.

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Rising temperatures are destabilising lake and river ice, boosting the risk of people drowning.

UK utility SSE saw its ETS-covered thermal power output rise 16% over the six months through September as the company’s gas plants were called on more often to balance the grid, the company said on Wednesday.

Could Australia's conservative federal government replicate the UK's slowly-increasing climate ambitions? One key problem needs to be solved first.

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Most energy produced when fossil fuels burned is wasted. The transition to electricity and renewables will change this.

The post Graph of the day: Most emissions from fossil fuels come from wasted energy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A federal low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS) is unlikely to materialise unless Democrats can win both Georgia Senate seats up for grabs in a January run-off election, a conference heard Wednesday.

Stakeholders drew competing views of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) proposed policy statement last month on CO2 pricing, with wholesale power grid operators supporting the move and fossil-fuel heavy states encouraging a more cautious path forward.

More than 35 million additional carbon allowances left over from Phase 3 of the EU ETS (2013-20) could be auctioned next year, the European Commission confirmed on Wednesday.

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Poland’s utility PGE posted a 3.2% year-on-year fall in CO2 output over the first nine months as its carbon costs weighed on the company’s coal generation.

The European Commission on Wednesday adopted its annual report on the functioning of the EU ETS, which covered the market’s developments in 2019 and into 2020, as well as summarising measures proposed or agreed this year.