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Western Australia’s largest solar farm on a remote network, the 60 MW Alinta Energy Chichester Hub Solar Farm in the Pilbara region, has begun production for Fortescue Metals Group. 

Western Australian schools are now able to apply for grants for the McGowan government’s $44.6 million Schools Clean Energy Technology package.

Online jobs advertisement portal SEEK says October saw the highest number of ads posted in a month during its 23 years of operation.

Western Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre and Finland's CSC – IT Centre for Science have signed a deal to collaborate on advanced computing solutions to improve global research efficiencies.

Researchers at Western Australia’s Curtin University have helped to determine the age of the youngest rocks ever found on the Moon, as part of a global space mission that is working to refine the chronology of the entire Solar System.

Western Australia will test out two units of a bus built with the Volvo BZL electric chassis, along with two others that will be supplied to the state's public transport authority.

IT service management company Empired has secured a $15 million managed services contract with Western Australia regional electricity supplier Horizon Power.

New Curtin University research has found the Moon may have been subjected to much greater impacts from asteroids and other bodies than previously thought, building on our understanding of the Moon’s earliest geologic evolution.

Job advertisements on the online portal SEEK in August were down by 5.3% month-on-month but up 55.9% year-on-year, the company says.

The number of new jobs on offer to Australian executives increased in July despite the severe and continuing lockdown in New South Wales and occasionally other states, according to a new report from human resources firm EL Consult.

Fixed wireless and wholesale network infrastructure provider Swoop has secured a $5 million deal with Orro Group to provide enterprise ethernet services in Western Australia. The contract will bring fibre connectivity in more than 150 locations in the state.

Western Australian managed IT services consulting company Netlink has rebranded its business with help from digital agency PWD.

It's a busy time for rural, regional and remote telco Field Solutions Group (FSG). The company has secured three financial awards under the Federal Government's mobile black spot program to run the first neutral host radio access trial, to provide another 15 towers, and to trial domestic roaming.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has allocated $11.3 million in funding to aluminium manfacturer Alcoa to demonstrate technology that can electrify the production of steam in its alumina refining process using renewable energy.

Western Australia's first industry-university 5G laboratory has opened, with telco Singtel Optus and Curtin University showcasing some 5G uses.

Reconciliation Australia has dropped Telstra from its elite Elevate leaders group in the wake of the company admitting it had breached consumer law by selling post-paid mobile products to Indigenous customers.

Defence contractor ASC is undertaking a digital transformation of its critical business systems to set the ground for its digital shipyard transition.

The Australian Information Industry Association AIIA) says Western Australia has the capacity to move up the rankings in the country’s digital inclusion index and move ahead of third placed NSW in the next 12 months.

Mining giant Fortescue Metals has undertaken the operational deployment of autonomous light vehicles (ALV’s) at the company’s mining operations in the Chichester Hub in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

National broadband network operator NBN Co has announced the extension of its fibre network rollout, with the second tranche to pass 100,000 premises on the way to the goal of 2 million premises with fibre by the end of 2023.