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Cuts in oil production by the OPEC cartel and other big producers, combined with a pick-up in global fuel demand, led to higher petrol prices in Australia’s five largest capital cities in the March 2021 quarter, according to the latest petrol monitoring report from the ACCC.

Data centre owner and operator DCI Data Centers has announced plans to spend $70 million on a new data centre in South Australia, along with upgrades to its existing facilities on the site.

DCI Data Centers has appointed Chris Clarkson as head of business development for South Australia and the Northern Territory.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has allocated $8.2 million in funding to Tesla Motors Australia to trial the deployment of residential battery and rooftop solar systems at 3000 properties owned by Housing SA across Adelaide.

Five startups will take part in the University of South Australia’s second Venture Catalyst Space program supported by the South Australian Government’s Space Innovation Fund through its Innovation & Collaboration Centre (ICC).

Australian fintech innovation hub Stone & Chalk is partnering with the South Australian Government to establish a start-up hub at the Lot Fourteen innovation precinct on the seven-hectare former Royal Adelaide Hospital site.

A new traineeship program by Microsoft Australia, which launched in NSW in late 2018, will expand to South Australia in September this year. It is designed to help build workforce capability in information technology and cloud computing, and increase IT traineeships in the state.

The South Australian Government is set to launch a new online accessibility policy, and online toolkit, to assist all organisations in the state to create more accessible, digital platforms.

Global IT services company, HCL Technologies has opened a new delivery centre in Adelaide following the signing last year of a six-year contract with agribusiness Elders.

A driverless electric shuttle, linking Australia’s first innovation district with nearby public transport stops, has launched in Adelaide.

The South Australian Government is dishing out more than $8 million in new funding for energy storage projects in the state, ranging from batteries and hydrogen fuel cells to thermal storage using sewage.

UK-headquartered energy company Tempus Energy is partnering with power provider Origin Energy to pilot a “flexible energy” demand solution in South Australia.

The South Australian Government and the state’s space and defence leaders are set to meet the heads of the South Korean and Japan space agencies following the federal government’s announcement it will establish a national space agency.

An Australian Smart Cities Consortium has been launched by the University of Adelaide with the aim of helping to transform Adelaide into a smart city.

South Australia is participating in a Singapore conference aimed at exploring new opportunities from emerging technologies, and their impact on skills and international trade.

The chief of Australian battery and energy storage company Redflow, Simon Hackett, has welcomed the announcement that the South Australian Government has awarded a contract to deploy a 129 megawatt hour (MWh) battery farm to help solve the state’s power problems.

A South Australian software developer has won the contract to build the state’s new Dogs and Cats Online system – a one-stop online service for all registration payments, microchipping and breeder information.

The South Australian Government has appointed local company EscapeNet to deliver a gigabit-speed Internet service across Adelaide.

The first Australian designed, engineered and manufactured electric bus to be used on a public transport system in Australia has been launched in South Australia.

The South Australian Government has allocated $555,015 to Optus to build and operate four new mobile phone base stations in the State after $2 million it committed towards the federal government’s mobile black spots programme was not fully utilised.