New Zealand’s ‘1st’ Utility Scale Solar Farm Online
Lodestone Energy Switches on Kiwi Nation’s Largest Solar Installation To Date With Agrivoltaic Design
Thursday, 30 Nov 2023
Lodestone Energy of New Zealand has brought online what it says is the 1st utility-scale solar farm of the country to bid into the electricity market, and the largest to date.
Australia Announces Plans To Auction 32 GW RE Capacity
Expands CIS Scope To Auction Dispatchable & Variable Energy & Provide Certainty To Investors
Friday, 24 Nov 2023
The Australian government is taking the auctions route to speed up renewable energy generation in the country that it believes can generate long-term, reliable and affordable electricity.
Solar & Storage Farm Powering BHP’s Nickel Mine
Hybrid Renewable Energy Project To Replace Diesel & Gas For Mining Operations In Australia
Friday, 24 Nov 2023
Mining company BHP Group Limited and Canadian electricity generator TransAlta Corporation have announced the completion of what they call is one among the world’s largest off-grid mining solar and battery storage facilities.
Macquarie Trains Lens On RE In Oceania Nations
Independent Power Producer Aula Energy To Build, Own, Operate 4 GW Utility-Scale Renewables
Tuesday, 21 Nov 2023
Global asset manager from Australia, Macquarie Asset Management has set up a new company with an initial portfolio of 4 GW planned renewable energy projects in Australia and New Zealand markets. Aula Energy, the new onshore renewable energy busines.
NSW Seeks Responses To Draft Energy Guidelines
Desirable Locations For Solar Development Score Heavily Over Wind Energy In Australian State’s Plans
Tuesday, 14 Nov 2023
The share of desirable and suitable sites for large-scale solar PV power plants heavily overshadows wind energy in the draft energy guidelines issued by New South Wales (NSW), Australia that are aimed at accelerating their development. Released by .
NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap’s 4th Tender Round
AEMO Services Invites Bids For Renewable Generation Projects For 3,000 GWh/Year
Monday, 13 Nov 2023
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) Services is officially inviting bids for the 4th tender of the New South Wales (NSW) Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap, seeking renewable energy generation projects. Sought to secure 3,000 GWh/year elec.
Large Scale Renewable Energy Hub Scrapped In Australia
Fortescue Group Pulls The Plug On 5.4 GW Solar, Wind & Storage Project In Western Australia
Monday, 06 Nov 2023
Fortescue Metals Group Limited (FMGL) has apparently decided not to go ahead with its proposed multi-GW Uaroo Renewable Energy Hub in Western Australia.
Australian Solar Tech Company Bags AUD 11 Million
ARENA Announces Funding For SunDrive’s Copper Metallization Technique As Company Opens Commercialization Facility
Wednesday, 01 Nov 2023
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has tipped AUD 11 million ($7 million) in SunDrive to enable the company bring its copper-based solar cell metallization technology to commercialization.
Polysilicon Manufacturing Planned In Australia
Quinbrook Infrastructure Secures Land In Queensland For Solar & Storage Powered Polysilicon Plant
Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023
Upstream solar manufacturing is on its way to Australia after private equity firm Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners secured a major parcel of land in Queensland, Australia to build a large state-of-the-art polysilicon manufacturing factory. The T.
Australian State To Fast-Track 4.5 GW RE Projects
Victoria Relaunches SEC In New Avatar To Spearhead Government’s Energy Transition Efforts
Friday, 27 Oct 2023
The State of Victoria in Australia aims to accelerate the deployment of 4.5 GW renewable energy storage projects with an investment worth AUD 1 billion ($635 million) initially through its State Electricity Commission (SEC).
Natives Sign Renewable Energy Deal With Mining Group
Rio Tinto & YEC To Explore Solar Power Development To Replace Gas Use For Iron-Ore Mines
Monday, 23 Oct 2023
Anglo-Australian metals miner Rio Tinto has secured the support of traditional landowners in Western Australia’s Pilbara to explore wind, solar and battery energy storage projects in Yindjibarndi country.
Australian Pension Fund Invests In Solar Company
Aware Super Joins Hands With Birdwood Energy To Launch New Distributed Energy Platform
Friday, 20 Oct 2023
One of the largest pension funds in Australia, Aware Super has announced plans to invest up to AUD 2 billion ($1.3 billion) in renewable energy company Birdwood Energy’s distributed generation portfolio. The investment will be geared towards Bird.
Queensland Seeking Bidders For 3 GW Renewables
CleanCo Gauging Investor Interest For Wind & Solar Power For Australian State’s Energy Transformation
Tuesday, 17 Oct 2023
The low-carbon energy generator owned by the State of Queensland in Australia, CleanCo has invited expression of interest (EOI) for 3 GW wind and solar power generation capacity. According to the call, this includes project development acquisitions.
Queensland Commissions 204 MW DC Solar Park
Japanese Companies Switch On Their Maiden Large Scale PV Plant In Australia Through Joint Venture
Monday, 02 Oct 2023
The Japanese partnership of ENEOS Corporation and Sojitz Corporation have commissioned their 1st large scale solar power plant in Australia with 204 MW DC installed capacity in Queensland.
Mike Cannon-Brookes Takes Over AAPowerLink Project
SunCable’s Massive Solar Project Moves Forward; To Seek Requisite Licenses In Singapore & Indonesia
Thursday, 07 Sep 2023
The world’s largest planned solar and storage project Australia-Asia PowerLink (AAPowerLink) is now moving forward under Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Ventures, that has now officially become the owner of SunCable’s assets, under a new structure an.
Australia Opens Regional Microgrids Program
ARENA To Allocate AUD 125 Million For Microgrid Technologies In Regional & Remote Communities
Monday, 28 Aug 2023
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has opened the Regional Microgrids Program (RMP) with a funding budget of AUD 125 million ($80 million) to deploy microgrid technologies across regional and remote communities. Under stream A, which .
NZD 2 Billion Fund For New Zealand’s RE Plans
Kiwis Rope In BlackRock To Support Climate Ambitions & Achieve 100% Renewable Electricity
Friday, 11 Aug 2023
A 1st of its kind NZD 2 billion ($1.2 billion) climate infrastructure fund has been launched in New Zealand with the government joining hands with the US based global investment group BlackRock to help the country become one of the earliest nations t.
Expanding Renewable Energy Zone In NSW
Central-West Orana REZ Proposed To Be ‘Right-Sized’ To Be Expanded Up To 6 GW By 2038
Monday, 07 Aug 2023
Citing the need to support the state’s future energy requirements, the State Government of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia wants to ‘right-size’ the declaration of one of its 5 renewable energy zones (REZ), the Central-West Orana REZ, expand.
Australian RE & Storage Tender Oversubscribed
AEMO Services Gets 3.1 GW Aggregate Bids For 950 MW Tender; Results Expected By 2023-End
Monday, 07 Aug 2023
Increasing interest in Australia’s renewable energy market has led to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) Services securing major oversubscription for its 3rd tender round under the New South Wales (NSW) Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap .
MoU To Explore RE Manufacturing In Australia
Reliance & Brookfield Partner For Clean Energy Equipment Production To Support Up To 14 GW Capacity
Tuesday, 01 Aug 2023
India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani is now looking at Australia to explore the possibility of starting renewable energy manufacturing within the country, including for solar PV modules.
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