If you’ve got a dark roof, you’re spending almost $700 extra a year to keep your house cool - One Step Off The Grid (onestepoffthegrid.com.au)
If we’re going to electrify everything, we’ll need finance that works for everyone (reneweconomy.com.au)
Continued logging of NSW koala habitat is ‘a profound tragedy’, conservationist says (www.theguardian.com)
First Nations communities solving long standing energy security problems with clean energy projects (switchedon.reneweconomy.com.au)
Councils from Paris to the Yarra want to use parking fees to clamp down on big SUVs. What are they doing and will they succeed? (www.theguardian.com)
We went to a council meeting about blocking housing. It was...weird (www.youtube.com)
Great video on building new housing supply, and also covers how the Greens are duplicitous about building new housing while opposing housing in their councils. Labor is right on this one.
‘I don’t like to lose’: Businessman Geoff Cousins is using his wallet and contact book to end native logging in NSW (www.smh.com.au)
archive.org linky link.
Nuclear slow and expensive, renewables fast and cheap: Bowen slaps down Coalition “fantasy” (reneweconomy.com.au)
Federal climate and energy minister Chris Bowen has again slammed the federal Coalition’s “nuclear fantasy”, describing it as a deliberate distraction and the latest “desperate effort” to keep the culture war over energy and climate alive....
This island risks being transformed into a consumer experience for the wealthy. Should it be a wake-up call? (www.abc.net.au)
Truck blocks West Gate Bridge during peak-hour climate protest (www.theage.com.au)
De-paywalled archive link: web.archive.org/…/west-gate-bridge-blocked-with-t…
'Thrown to the wind' -- are wind farms really killing whales? (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: aussie.zone/post/7289659...
Four reasons rooftop solar will grow to dominate Australia’s electricity market (reneweconomy.com.au)
Wind and solar are delivering an energy transition at record speed (reneweconomy.com.au)
AGL and AEMO search for answers on Loy Yang outage, but “woke” energy not to blame (reneweconomy.com.au)
Rebates of up to $4,000 on offer for solar batteries in new Queensland scheme (www.abc.net.au)
In short: The Queensland government will give out rebates of between $3,000 and $4,000 for households to install solar battery storage systems....
Nineteen Tasmanians banned from public native forestry estate after logging protests | ABC News (www.youtube.com)
19 Tasmanians have received indefinite bans from entering any of the state's public native forestry estate — an area covering 812,000 hectares....
Gas producer 'committed' to controversial drilling project despite NSW government opposition (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Asset Energy Pty Ltd says it’s committed to a drilling project to extract gas off the NSW coast, despite government opposition....
Used solar panels could supply Australia’s next resource boom: study (reneweconomy.com.au)
New Vehicle Efficiency Standard—Cleaner, Cheaper to run Cars for Australia (www.infrastructure.gov.au)
Engie to shut two South Australian generators as losses mount (www.afr.com)
Not really news....
Australians keep buying huge cars in huge numbers. If we want to cut emissions, this can’t go on | Richard Denniss (www.theguardian.com)
Hopeful of job opportunities, residents rally in support of offshore wind (www.abc.net.au)
In short: Pro-renewable rallies have been held in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland...
“Count me out:” Barnaby Joyce backed anti-renewables rally tries to co-opt Bob Brown (reneweconomy.com.au)
Australian Greens founder and award winning environmentalist Bob Brown has slammed the organisers of an anti-renewables rally planned for outside federal parliament next week, and demanded they stop using his name and image to promote a protest he says has been “hijacked by the coal lobby.”...
Households could boost solar output with two-sided panels, a tilt, and a light colour roof (reneweconomy.com.au)
Australian households are already the biggest adopters of rooftop solar panels in the world, and the technology already provides all of local demand in some states at certain times, and more than 11 per cent of total grid demand over the past year....