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Investment cycle means race is on to incentivise green hydrogen
A report published by IRENA hints the world’s politicians will have to get to work immediately to avoid another generation of fossil fuel-fired hydrogen, ammonia, and methanol plants being set up to run into the second half of the century.…
Weekend read: The changing geopolitics of green hydrogen
Francesco La Camera, the director general of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), believes that renewable energy is the only way we can effectively transform today’s energy system to reach climate goals. Renewables build…
Philippine irrigation body offers up sites for floating solar
With senators having called for plantation-wide solar powered pumping projects, funded by public money, the country’s National Irrigation Administration has agreed and said it wants to embrace floating solar facilities too. March 7, 2022…
ARENA opens $128m funding round for fleets to switch to electric & hydrogen vehicles
ARENA has opened round two of its Future Fuels Program, allocating $127.9 million in funding to support fleets to shift to new zero emissions vehicles over the next four years, be that electric, hydrogen, or biofuels. February 21,…
Nine policies to transform Australia
Ahead of the federal election, industry peak body the Clean Energy Council has released its Roadmap for a Renewable Energy Future: Federal Election Policy Recommendations which outlines policy paths for the next federal government to…
Weekend read: Australia to make world’s-first liquefied hydrogen shipment to Japan
The Suiso Frontier cargo vessel docked at Victoria’s Port of Hastings on Friday to take on the world’s first shipment of liquid hydrogen. The ship’s arrival is a landmark for the Japanese-Australian Hydrogen Energy Supply Chain pilot…
‘Ultra low-cost solar’ gets a $40 million R&D boost from ARENA
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency has announced $40 million in research and develop funding is up for grabs across two streams. Stream 1 consists of cells and modules, and Stream 2 is focused on balance of system along with operations…
NT’s first publicly owned house finally granted access to rooftop solar
Indigenous communities have some of the most unreliable, expensive power in Australia, with a recent study finding almost three quarters of households in remote Northern Territory communities lost power more than 10 times, often for…
$26 billion in ‘new energy economy’ projects proposed in Queensland, as feds pay bizarre homage to…
The Queensland government has highlighted its state attracted as much as $26 billion worth of “new energy economy projects”, according to new national resources reports. The federal government, on the other hand, used the reports to pay…
Hydrogen powered freight trains? Police cars? Queensland goes all out
The Queensland government will explore whether hydrogen fuel cells can be used for heavy freight trains, preceding that news with the launch of what is believed to be the first hydrogen powered police car in the southern hemisphere.…