Construction on Australia’s largest electricity grid project, EnergyConnect, is underway, with works underway on setting up conductor cabling for...
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Grid transformation engine: translating concepts into reality
Patricia Mae Tagabe Electricity, Features, Networks 0by Ben Bristow, Head of Grid Transformation, Western Power In Western Australia, our network is different; we have one...
From the Northern Territory to Singapore: the Australia-Asia PowerLink
Patricia Mae Tagabe Electricity, Features, Solar 0The $30 billion Australia-Asia PowerLink will include the world’s largest solar farm and battery storage facility, as well as...
The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has announced a new draft rule designed to gather more nuanced data about...
NT facility to test solar inverters
Mikayla Bridge Electricity, Energy Efficiency, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar, Spotlight 0The Alice Springs Future Grid project has partnered with Charles Darwin University (CDU) to test the capacity of solar...
Cannon-Brookes: Labor win is bad news for AGL demerger
Stephanie Nestor Company news, Electricity, News, Spotlight 0In his latest appeal to shareholders to vote against AGL’s proposed demerger, Mike Cannon-Brookes has pointed to the results...
Student-developed EV charging trial to begin
Stephanie Nestor Electric Vehicles, Electricity, News, Spotlight 0United Energy has announced a trial to identify electric vehicle (EV) charging patterns on its network using new techniques...
REPORT: Why have Australian energy prices continued to climb?
Lauren DeLorenzo Electricity, Gas, LNG, News 0A recently-released report from Energy Quest has analysed a number of factors affecting Australia’s supply and demand of electricity...
Grid stabilisation goal for $3.4 million EV trial
Holly Tancredi Electricity, Renewable Energy, Sustainability 0Three states and territories are trialling a new $3.4 million electric vehicle (EV) home-charger to assess whether they can...
Queensland signs hydrogen agreement with Europe’s largest port
Mikayla Bridge Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0Queensland has signed an agreement with the Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s largest port, to collaborate on the development of...
AGL Energy has released its Demerger Scheme Booklet, which outlines the advantages and disadvantages of the proposed demerger, the...
Project Symphony VPP pilot reaches major milestone
Stephanie Nestor Electricity, Networks, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Smart Energy, Spotlight 0Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has announced that Western Australia’s Virtual Power Plant (VPP) pilot, Project Symphony, has reached...
Trial of powerline technology to boost electricity network reliability
Stephanie Nestor Electricity, News, Powerlines, Spotlight 0Jemena is trialling Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) advanced image capture technology to boost the reliability of its electricity...
Cannon-Brookes raids AGL shares to block demerger
Stephanie Nestor Company news, Electricity, News, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes has bought up AGL Energy shares in his continued pursuit to block AGL’s proposed demerger....
Improving network interconnectivity for a sustainable energy future
Christopher Allan Electricity, Networks, Renewable Energy, Sponsored Editorial, Spotlight 0Bernard Norton, Country Managing Director, Hitachi Energy, Australia As electricity emerges as the backbone for Australia’s sustainable energy future,...
Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) report has revealed that wholesale electricity prices in the National...
Mega renewable energy hub proposed for NSW
Annabelle Powell Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0Maoneng has lodged a development application for construction of an energy hub in regional New South Wales, including a...
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has announced the development of a roadmap to facilitate the approved post-2025 National...
Horizon Power has secured $10.5 million in funding to transition its customers to clean energy ahead of the closure...
Antaisolar supplied ground-mounted system for a 14MW solar plant in Japan
Utility Journalist Electricity, Renewable Energy, Solar, Sponsored Editorial 0The recently completed 14MW solar plant located in Fukushima Japan, utilised Antaisolar’s aluminum ground mounting system. As it’s shown...
$3.8m network upgrade for remote Aboriginal communities
Lauren DeLorenzo Asset Management, Civil Construction, Electricity, Networks, News, Projects, Spotlight 0Horizon Power has undertaken a $3.8 million electrical network infrastructure upgrade to standardise the electricity supply across 13 Aboriginal...
$10.6 million committed to WA underground power projects
Mikayla Bridge Electricity, News, Powerlines, Spotlight 0The Western Australian Government has committed $10.6 million for underground power plants in Hilton and Shelley, including the removal...
ESOO update: maintaining reliability post-Eraring closure
Holly Tancredi Electricity, News, Spotlight 0AEMO’s update to the 2021 Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) report has found that the potential Eraring Power Station...
The Federal Government has reached a $75.8 million underwriting agreement with transmission provider Transgrid to deliver early works for...
SA Power Networks’ new substation under construction
Stephanie Nestor Electricity, News, Projects, Spotlight, Substations 0Works are underway on a large-scale project by SA Power Networks, which includes a new substation at St Kilda...
Additional $75m for TAS Battery of the Nation projects
Stephanie Nestor Electricity, Hydro Power, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0The Federal Government has announced a further $75 million for the Marinus Link electricity interconnector and Tasmania’s Battery of...
Three states to participate in 12-month EV Grid Trial
Mikayla Bridge Electricity, News, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0Electric Vehicle (EV) drivers in Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT are participating in a 12-month EV Grid Trial looking...
Report: Record-breaking renewable generation, but new growth slows
Lauren DeLorenzo Asset Management, Batteries & Storage, Electricity, Energy Efficiency, News, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Sustainability 0A report from the Clean Energy Council has revealed that Australia’s record-breaking uptake of renewable energy continued in 2021,...
WA outage payment increased after independent review
Mikayla Bridge Electricity, News, Projects, Spotlight 0The Western Australian Government has approved all recommendations made in an independent review of the Christmas 2021 Power Outages,...
The Federal Government is supporting offshore electricity infrastructure and renewable energy opportunities through its Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (OEI) framework....
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