New figures released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have revealed that the renewable energy industry created more...
Renewable Energy
The latest project news, developments and opinion pieces from industry experts from Australia’s renewable energy industry.
Sanjeev Gupta talks energy storage
Laura Harvey Batteries & Storage, Networks, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Sustainability 0As solar and energy storage technologies become more competitive, they will revolutionise how energy is consumed globally, especially in...
Energy laws in Queensland will be reviewed to accommodate new energy storage systems, remote-controlled home energy and customers who...
Major free showcase of energy storage technologies
Laura Harvey Batteries & Storage, Electricity, Networks, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability 0More than 60 leading companies in the Australian and global energy storage industry will come together at the Australian...
Planned Asian Renewable Energy Hub increases capacity
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar, Spotlight, Wind 0The consortium behind the plan to create the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) in Western Australia’s Pilbara region in...
Hunter Region to get bio-renewable boost
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy 0The New South Wales Government will provide $4.6 million in funding to construct the Hunter Pilot Biorefinery (HPB) in...
Goat hill pumped hydro project approved
Laura Harvey Electricity, Gas, Hydro Power, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0Delta Electricity’s plans for a 230MW pumped storage facility in South Australia have been approved by the state government....
Solar farm powering water reclamation plant
Elisa Iannunzio Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar 0A new one-megawatt solar farm is now online, sending power to the nearby Barwon Water Black Rock water reclamation...
Sapphire Wind Farm operational
Elisa Iannunzio Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Wind 0The Sapphire 1 wind farm in regional NSW is now feeding renewable electricity into the national grid as part...
Landmark renewable energy deal
Elisa Iannunzio Company news, Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar 0SIMEC ZEN Energy and NEOEN have signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together to develop, operate...
Where Australia sits on the energy storage global stage
Utility Journalist Batteries & Storage, News, Renewable Energy 0The need, and potential, for energy storage technologies in Australia is high, and the country is ahead of the...
SA energy storage company lodges IPO
Laura Harvey Batteries & Storage, Company news, Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Sustainability 0Australian energy company 1414 Degrees is going public with its silicon energy storage technology after almost a decade and...
NSW wind farm approved with conditions
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Sustainability, Wind 0The NSW Independent Planning Commission has approved scaled-back plans for a wind farm on the NSW Southern Tablelands. The...
Clean drinking water using solar power
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar 0The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will conduct an Australian-first trial of drinking water systems that produce clean drinking...
WA to become leader in wave energy
Laura Harvey News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, Wave 0The Albany Visitor Centre in Western Australia has been announced as the location for the University of Western Australia’s...
Latrobe Valley farmers to benefit from blockchain technology
Elisa Iannunzio Batteries & Storage, Digital Utilities, IOT, Microgrids, Networks, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Smart Energy, Solar 0ARENA will provide $370,000 in funding for a feasibility study into a ‘virtual microgrid’ for the Latrobe Valley. The...
New bioenergy business deal
Laura Harvey Company news, Electricity, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability 0ReNu Energy has agreed to a Heads of Terms with an international investment fund. The Australian company has agreed...
Funding for portable solar project
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar, Spotlight 0The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will provide $289,725 in funding for Canberra-based ECLIPS Engineering to design, manufacture and...
NEG progresses to final design stage
Laura Harvey Electricity, Networks, News, Policy, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0The COAG Energy Council has agreed to progress to the final design stage for the National Energy Guarantee (NEG),...
Land option secured for Kidston wind farm
Laura Harvey Civil Construction, Company news, Hydro Power, Land Access, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar, Spotlight, Wind 0Genex Power has signed a deal to secure the land option to develop a wind farm project up to...
Energy giant wins bid to build solar farm in QLD
Laura Harvey News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar, Spotlight 0A international energy company has been selected to transform 1250 hectares of underutilised state-owned land at Aldoga in Queensland...
The Department of Planning and Environment has refused to support the development for a waste-to-energy facility, proposed for Eastern...
Joint venture to power renewables projects in WA
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Solar, Spotlight, Sustainability 0The Western Australian Government has approved a joint venture with Synergy, infrastructure investment company DIF and Australian industry super...
World-first hydrogen pilot project
Laura Harvey Electricity, Hydro Power, News, Renewable Energy, Spotlight 0The Federal Government has announced it will invest $50 million into a world-first Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain (HESC) pilot...
Funding to cut carbon emissions in infrastructure assets
Laura Harvey Asset Management, Company news, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Sustainability 0Australia’s largest infrastructure fund, the $12 billion IFM Australian Infrastructure Fund, is working with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation...
Funding for future fuels research
Laura Harvey Electricity, Networks, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Safety and Training, Spotlight 0The Federal Government’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program has received $90 million in funding to secure its research program...
Abattoir to be powered by bioenergy
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Sustainability, Waste-to-Energy 0A Goulburn abattoir has teamed up with a Queensland energy provider to turn its waste into energy. The Australian...
The biggest barrier to microgrids
Elisa Iannunzio Electricity, Microgrids, Networks, News, Renewable Energy 0The establishment of viable business cases for different applications is the main barrier to the continued uptake of microgrids...
New wind farm approved for NSW
Laura Harvey Electricity, News, Projects, Renewable Energy, Spotlight, Sustainability, Wind 0The NSW Government has approved the development of a new wind farm in the Upper Hunter region which is...
Sodium-ion may be key to mass battery production
Elisa Iannunzio Batteries & Storage, Electricity, News, Renewable Energy, Sustainability 0Researchers at NSW’s University of Wollongong (UOW) Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials (ISEM) are developing a new sodium-ion...
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