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- Tue 04:09A New Zealand-based hydrogen steel startup has raised NZ$20 million ($11.5 mln) of funding to develop a demonstration plant at Glenbrook, according to media reports.
- Tue 02:21Refining strategy – The Western Australia and federal governments have announced a A$4-mln ($2.7-mln) pre-feasibility study on building a new oil refinery as part of the country's energy security response, the ABC reported. The new refinery was proposed and would be built by Perth-headquartered Perdaman. Only two oil refineries remain open in Australia, one in Geelong and the other in Brisbane.
- Tue 01:55No Dili-dallying – Timor-Leste has received a financing package worth $85.7 mln for its first utility-scale solar and battery project from the Asian Development Bank, the Canadian government, the Japan International Cooperation Agency, and the World Bank. The project will see the construction of a 73.7-MW solar PV plant plus an 80.2-MWh battery, as well as transmission lines and ancillary facilities, displacing the use of diesel. In its third NDC, submitted to the UNFCCC in June, Timor-Leste stressed the importance of expanding renewable energy in the country, but also the need for financial support.
- Tue 01:20Canada’s forests are burning faster than its carbon market rules can adapt, leading developers, auditors, insurers, and Indigenous project partners to rethink how to manage fire risk – and what it means to promise decades of carbon storage when past fire patterns are becoming a less reliable guide to future conditions.
- Environmental groups and carbon market researchers filed separate briefs in support of the reversal of a US federal judge’s dismissal of a class action lawsuit claiming consumers were misled by carbon neutral marketing for vaping products.
