Displaying items by tag: Renewable energy

The competition watchdog the ACCC has granted authorisation for a joint renewable energy purchasing group led by Equinix, where applicants will pool their demand and collectively tender and negotiate to purchase power from a solar or wind electricity generation facility in Australia.

Australian energy company and smart energy innovator carbonTRACK has secured a share of $25.1 million in innovation funding to accelerate the commercialisation of its energy management technology.

The ACT Government has chosen financier Brighte as the exclusive administration partner for the first phase of their flagship climate policy, the Sustainable Household Scheme.

Australian energy trading technology company Power Ledger is migrating its own next-generation blockchain platform, the Powerledger Energy Blockchain, from Ethereum to Solana.

DyFlex Green Energy Solution is said to be a fully-integrated ERP platform especially designed for the renewables sector.

Telstra and Naturgy, through its international power generation subsidiary Global Power Generation (GPG), announced they have signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) to build a 58 megawatt (MW) wind farm located near Goulburn in Crookwell, NSW.

New buildings will be more energy efficient, use more renewable energy and support the transition to net-zero emissions, according to City of Sydney which has released a plan to include energy targets in development applications. 

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.

Energy provider AGL AGL has entered into agreements to acquire two of Australia’s largest commercial solar businesses - Epho and Solgen Energy Group - from private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners.

The Federal Government says it will provide $1.98 million to Solahart, a subsidiary of Rheem Australia, to partly fund a trial to test 2400 hot water systems in South Australia with a view to reduce the energy use for heating water at peak times.

Australia exceeded its generation of renewable energy in 2020 by 11% compared to the previous year, according to figures from the Clean Energy Regulator.

Victorian electricity distributor, CitiPower, and the Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) have signed a new agreement in a move they say will unlock the potential of community-scale battery storage in the Melbourne CBD and inner-city suburbs.

The RACV has announced a $1 million investment in solar and battery installations for bushfire-prone areas of Victoria over the next two years, in a move it says will improve safety for isolated communities that could otherwise be cut off from power and communications during emergencies.

CQUniversity campuses across Queensland will source 50% of their energy from renewable solar under a deal signed by the university with Columboola Solar Farm which is being built between the towns of Chinchilla and Miles.

New Zealand energy transmission start up Emrod is claiming a world-first development and launch of high-power, wireless power transmission as an alternative to existing copper line technology.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $495,680 in funding to the Grid Innovation Hub at Monash University to conduct a desktop study exploring how to manage unstable and weak parts of the electricity grid.

Seven companies have been shortlisted and invited to submit a full application for the next stage of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s $70 million hydrogen funding round.

A blockchain solar energy trading trial that lets households set their own electricity prices has found the technology is technically feasible, viewed positively by participants and can lead to localised energy autonomy - and provide a big boost for peer-to-peer systems globally, according to Western Australian headquartered blockchain cryptocurrency and energy trading platform provider Power Ledger.

Britain’s Swansea University has selected Australian-listed energy storage technology company Redflow’s ZBM2 zinc-bromine flow battery technology as the energy storage backbone for its renewable energy Active Building demonstrator classroom.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced that its first renewable power project outside of the European Union (EU) and the United States will be in Australia.