Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
April 2026
CONTENTS: The Russia-Ukraine energy shock: Why geopolitics demands a clean
energy shift – Iran war shatters Trump Administration’s case for fossil fuels – Climate Challenge: A Decade After Paris Agreement – How extreme weather is leaving thousands of homes uninsurable – The Guardian view on EV charging: China took the right lessons from Britain’s past – Scientists use sunlight and gallium to make green hydrogen – How Europe can turn cement into a quick win for climate.
February 2026
CONTENTS – schools, airports, high-rise towers: architects urged to get ‘bamboo-ready’ – first global hybrid renewables project – farmers are producing record crops despite droughts and floods – an data centres slake their insatiable thirst for water? – inside the battle to power AI – US exit of key UN climate treaty criticized as self-sabotage – flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global
economy, experts warn – global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief – Global Monitoring Laboratory data
Video coming soon: Balancing the energy trilemma
EECA Chief Executive Dr Marcos Pelenur will spoke to us on Wednesday 15th October, explaining how energy efficiency and renewables are key to balancing the energy efficiency ‘trilemma’. Dr Pelenur will shared his views on this and the current focus and priorities for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.
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October 2025
CONTENTS – Extracts from IEA Global Energy Review 2025 – Biochar from human waste could solve global fertiliser shortages – Sustainable Jet Fuel Update – Trump team’s contentious climate report ‘makes a mockery of science’ – US intends to cancel $13 billion in funds for green energy – BP Oil Demand Forecast, Peak Oil pushed back to 2030 – China sets renewables goal – Extracts from Energy Source & Distribution Magazine
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Submission in response to proposed changes in NZ ETS Regulations 2025
This submission relates to the Ministry for the Environment (MfE) consultation document, Proposed changes to the New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) regulations 2025. In this document the MfE raises a number of specific issues. But we consider that there are also much more important steps that need to be taken so that we can start reducing our emissions at a significantly more rapid rate with the aim of meeting emissions reduction targets set by the IPCC and others.
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August 2025
CONTENTS – Eight reasons to be hopeful amid global challenges – IRENA Report excerpts – The renewable energy revolution – Grid forming batteries and syncons to bolster NSW grid – ‘Plastic crisis’ hitting health from infancy to old age – Economic assumptions no longer relevant.
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June 2025
CONTENTS – Don’t blame renewables – Climate projects can bring big economic benefits – Tide is turning in Europe and beyond in favour of nuclear power – AI can help us protect the planet – Electric scooters and a salt battery push in China – WA gets first-ever home battery rebate and loan scheme – Shipping industry still at sea as it tries to navigate to net zero – Albanese announces $1.2B plan to purchase critical minerals – Items from Energy Source & Distribution Magazine
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April 2025
CONTENTS: From sewage and scum to swimming in ‘blue gold’: how Switzerland transformed its rivers – UK scientist wins prize for invention that could help avert ‘phosphogeddon’ – Nearly 100% of lithium recycled in latest research – UQ researchers set new solar cell world record – Plants are losing their appetite – WMO report documents spiralling weather and climate impacts – Trump Administration plans to gut NOAA – Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism as we know it, warns top insurer
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Watch video: Insights from a community energy project
In this presentation, Stuart Potter will provide first-hand insights arising from the purchase and operation of Heart of England Community Energy, a series of three 5 MW solar energy sites based north of Stratford Upon Avon in the UK. This is one of the largest community solar farms in the UK, made up of around 60,000 solar panels, and has been generating clean and sustainable electricity since 2016.
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