14 October REneweconomy news

How to fix Australia’s embarrassing failure in electric vehicles

TAI report shows 64% of all party supporters in favour of policies to increase EV uptake – so what aren’t governments doing?

Visit Sophie Vorrath, 15h ago
UK sets out clean growth strategy and major renewable energy auction

The UK Government has announced an ambitious new Clean Growth Strategy to drastically cut carbon emissions and combat climate change.

Visit Joshua Hill, 17h ago
UK solar fund buys stakes in three Queensland projects

UK-based Foresight Solar Fund Limited continues Australian buying spree, taking shares in three Queensland projects under development.

Visit Sophie Vorrath, 17h ago
Don’t waste time on CET – there are other options for renewables, efficiency

We will never have an effective broad-based emission reduction policy – no matter who is in government. Best to look at alternatives, like reverse auctions.

Visit Rob Passey, 17h ago
NSW network to trial 1MWh grid support battery, as new suburbs boom

MPower tapped by Endeavour Energy to install 1MWh battery on network in NSW, in a trial hoped to save $1m a year on grid costs.

Visit Sophie Vorrath, 17h ago
Storage on hold as Victoria still reviewing battery tender

Clock ticks down on Victoria government’s plans to have two large scale battery storage projects in place by January 1, with the winners still not known.

Visit Giles Parkinson, 18h ago
China halts more than 150 coal-fired power plants

China is to stop or delay work on 151 planned and under-construction coal plants as Beijing struggles to respond to a flat-lining of demand for coal power.

Visit Lauri Myllyvirta & Li Danqing, 19h ago
Shark Tank’s Steve Baxter joins climate science deniers and islamophobes for Australian LibertyFest

What do you get when you bring together some of Australia’s most fervent climate science deniers with anti-Islam activists, fledgling right-wing political groups, and an American “free market” Libertarian?

Visit Graham Readfearn, 19h ago

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This page has a very useful “SEARCH” function. If you scroll way, way, down to the bottom of the right side panel you can use the “Search” slot. Type in a name or a place or topic on this slot, and it’s easy to find a related post. The categories can be useful, too.

Changing climate change“2040” paints an optimistic picture of the future of the environment

The film focuses on technological and agricultural solutions that are already being implemented to help combat climate change, The Economist Feb 19th 2019

by C.G. | BERLIN ……….In “2040”, a documentary which premiered at the Berlinale, Mr Gameau seeks to wrest hope from the bleak reports of climate change. He was inspired by Project Drawdown, the first comprehensive plan to reverse global warming, and the film is intended as a “virtual letter to his four-year-old daughter to show her an alternative future”. “Many films,” Mr Gameau thinks, are too dystopian, and “paint a future that is really hard to engage and to connect with”. “2040” acknowledges that the Earth has set off down a hazardous path, but focuses on the work that is being done now to steer the right course. What, the film asks, could make 2040 a time worth living in?…. (subscribers only) https://www.economist.com/prospero/2019/02/19/2040-paints-an-optimistic-picture-of-the-future-of-the-environment