It’s been a week of “world’s biggest projects”. First, the Tesla big battery in South Australia gets an upgrade that will enforce its position as the world’s biggest battery and gives another reason not to burn fossil fuels. And then billionaires Mike Cannon Brookes and Twiggy Forrest
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Genex Power has struck a new agreement with Japanese utility J-Power that renews its interest in buying ab equity stake in the Kidston Pumped Storage Hydro project, subject to a new off take agreement being sealed. In June, J-Power had agreed to make a $25 million equity
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New South Wales has announced plans to create its first “renewable energy zone”, seeking to attract 3,000MW of investment in the state’s central west as it accelerates its efforts to attract cheap wind and solar to replace its ageing coal-fired power stations. The initiative was one of
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The Energy and Emissions Reduction Minister in Australia’s conservative Liberal-National government, Angus Taylor, has scheduled a discussion with state and territory energy ministers about the planned overhaul of the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), a move following the government’s decision to quietly appoint an expert panel to come up
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Leading Chinese ‘Solar Module Super League’ (SMSL) member Jinko Solar reported strong third-quarter earnings this week beating most market expectations. But the biggest takeaway from the company’s Q3 2019 financial results was its expectation that it would ship between 18-20GW of solar modules in 2020. Jinko Solar
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There has been a ridiculously long list of stupid energy policy ideas over the past decade. The renewable energy industry, in particular, has faced a conga line of policies that have either deliberately or inadvertently curtailed the industry. But the Australian Energy Market Commission (the AEMC) may
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PRESS RELEASE Australia’s first national, not for profit legal watchdog for the environment launches today with a mandate to ensure environmental laws are observed and properly enforced. “The environmental problems that Australia faces aren’t bound by state or territory lines,” said
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Federal, State and Territory energy ministers are set to convene for a meeting of the COAG Energy Council for the first time in almost a year on Friday, as the Federal government continues to be called out for its lack of meaningful climate policy. Federal minister Angus
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South Australian company Glaciem Cooling Technology has received $2 million from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to demonstrate the technical and economic value of integrating thermal energy storage with renewable energy into Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration (HVAC&R) applications. The trial systems will be installed
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The entity set up to deliver Australia’s first offshore wind farm – and the largest yet in the Southern Hemisphere – has appointed a new CEO, as site tests begin off the south coast of Gippsland, Victoria. The Star of the South said on Thursday that former
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A widespread loss of power is no small matter. Electricity underpins just about every element of our lives. Politicians are therefore quite right to worry about whether we have enough power station capacity to keep the lights on. But sometimes worry can transform into panic. And when
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Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes says the planned $20 billion project to build the world’s largest solar farm, a huge storage facility and a cable to Singapore will push the limits of human engineering, but is far from impossible. Cannon-Brookes on Wednesday confirmed that he and another
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