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Texas utility commission chair raises threat of summer power outages and pushes for more gas-powered electricity

Public Utility Commission Chair Peter Lake said renewable energy could be critical to preventing power outages this summer. Renewable energy supporters said the grid’s reliability doesn’t hinge on wind and solar.

The Texas Tribune

Albany's plans to become WA's first 'renewable energy city' stall as investment dries up

A city on Western Australia's south coast offers a wealth of opportunities for future renewable energy projects. But what, if any, are going ahead?

ABC News

Sun Cable: Why Australia's two richest men are battling to control an unbuilt solar farm

Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest used to be lead investment partners on the $30 billion Sun Cable project. Now, they're bidding against each other to control it in a closed-door process close to resolution.

ABC News

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Clean energy often has dirty ethics based on human rights abuses

The switch away from fossil fuels to renewable energy is going hand-in-hand with a massive expansion of mining for essential minerals.

The New Daily

New York takes big step toward renewable energy in ‘historic’ climate win

Measure will also help shift utilities away from private companies to make them publicly owned

The Guardian - US

Australia's biggest hydropower project faces delay to 2028

Australia's biggest hydropower project faces a delay of up to two years, likely pushing its start-up out to 2028, the company said on Wednesday, in the latest setback for the A$5 billion ($3.33 billion) renewable energy project.

Reuters

Analysing the push for sustainable jet fuel

Biodiesel, a mix of diesel and palm oil-derived methyl ester used by cars with internal combustion engines, as well as used cooking oil that previously was deemed useless are now vying to change the aviation industry. The two oils can be processed to make sustainable aviation fuel, or SAF, a…

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Egypt Prequalifies 17 Consortia for its Water Desalination Program

Egypt has prequalified 17 consortia for the tendering process for the development of a number of sea water desalination plants, according to a statement released by Sovereign Fund of Egypt on Monday. The desalination plants will be powered by renewable energy sources in various locations across Egypt under the first…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Nationals call for senate inquiry into VNI West overhead powerlines through Victorian farms

After describing community consultation regarding the Victoria to New South Wales Interconnector West renewable energy project as "tokenistic at best", Nationals leaders are pushing for a senate inquiry into the overhead powerline project, which would run through farms.

ABC News

Competitive market to build NSW renewables drives energy price floors to record lows

AEMO Services estimates the projects will avert as much as 11m tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions over a 20-year period

The Guardian - AU

Cornwall cyder company to receive almost £600,000 to fund new solar farm as it migrates to renewable energy

The family-run business near Newquay, which trades as Healeys Cyder is best know for its 'Rattler' cyder

Birmingham Post

Australia risks losing billions to 'global vacuum' of talent: Twiggy

Andrew 'Twiggy' Forrest has asked for an even playing field to avoid talent being sucked overseas.

The Canberra Times

NLCIL signs MoU with TNC India for repurposing mined-out lands

NLCIL has entered a MoU with Nature Conservancy India Solutions Private Ltd. (TNC India) to repurpose mined-out lands for establishment of renewable energy projects.

The Hindu

Morning Mail: solar soothes power prices, gamblers face credit card ban, Jerry Springer dies

A record supply of renewable energy has helped calm wholesale power prices this year, official figures show

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Drop in wholesale power prices as renewable energy generation from wind and solar grows, AEMO finds

Fossil fuel-fired energy output hits record low levels in Australia's biggest electricity grid, triggering large falls in power prices spurred on by extraordinary growth in green energy.

The Guardian - AU

Record renewables help bring down Australia’s energy prices and emissions

Energy dynamics report finds clean energy is displacing fossil fuels and sending carbon emissions from the sector to new lows

Barchart

New “Hydrogen Turbine” Technology Could Decarbonize Air & Sea Travel

Green hydrogen is produced using electrolysis, a process powered by renewable energy. However, it is energy-intensive and could displace renewables from the grid.

The Conversation

Why green ammonia may not be that green

Ammonia has been in the news because of its suitability as a hydrogen carrier and fuel, in addition to being a vital ingredient in fertiliser. Existing distribution networks and the ease of turning ammonia gas into a liquid make ammonia a cost-effective way to transport renewable energy. For a given…

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Newcastle Herald

Councillor raises 'pack of potential problems' with offshore wind

Councillor Jason Pauling has urged Lake Macquarie City Council not to jump the gun in its support for a renewable energy zone off the Hunter coastline.

Newcastle Herald

We don't need to shut stations to power ahead with renewables

We're at an inflection point on the journey towards a renewable future.

The Guardian - US

Bitcoin is terrible for the environment – can it ever go green?

Cryptocurrency mining uses huge amounts of energy, but activists are urging for a change in its code to reduce its environmental impact

The Guardian - UK

John Kerry: relying solely on CO2-removal technology is ‘dangerous’

Exclusive: US climate envoy says existing measures, such as shift to renewable energy, must be deployed faster to stop global warming

The New Daily

Snowy Hydro 2.0 halted after fatal truck crash

The death of a worker on a major renewable energy project is incredibly distressing, its chief executive says.

France 24

Wind power to provide energy for 300 million homes by 2050

Nine European countries are holding a summit in Belgium aimed at scaling up wind-power generation in the North Sea, spurred by the fallout of the war in Ukraine and the push for renewable energy. Our science reporter Shirli Sitbon looks at why the North Sea is one of the world's…

Daily Mirror

Londoners baffled by unusual cow sculpture in Westminster with lamp emerging from rump

The life-sized statue was placed outside the Houses of Parliament to highlight the potential of using cow poo as a renewable energy source

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