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ABC offers an unchecked platform for gas-fired fantasies
Australia’s climate debate has transitioned from obsessing over coal to obsessing over gas. It is the talk of the big end of town.
Australia’s energy minister Angus Taylor has always been a big fan of gas (and not a big fan of big fans).…
Enel Green Power awarded 106.3 MW of hydro, wind capacity in GSE’s second auction
Enel Green Power was awarded 68 MW of new renewable capacity for two wind projects and 38.3 MW of nominal capacity from the repowering of operational hydroelectric plants in the second renewable auction launched by Italian state-owned…
Suntech’s solar farm joins the grid powered by Australia’s first digitized PPA
The 9.4MW Robinvale Solar Farm is Suntech’s first 100% owned project in the Australian pipeline to come to fruition and the first solar project in Australia to deploy WePower’s blockchain-based PPA architecture, which opens up…
Entrepreneurial disruptions in energy
The death of the energy industry as we know it is imminent. The demise of electricity and the transport fuels part of oil and gas, roughly 50%, will be driven by entrepreneurs. I do not believe the energy industry will transform itself…
Renewable Energy Boost Projected To Create 19,000 More Jobs In Australia By 2025
Clean Power
Published on June 4th, 2020 | by Cynthia Shahan June 4th, 2020 by Cynthia Shahan
This is the kind of boom we want to read about. A boom in jobs, but not only jobs, careers, and not only careers, but careers that mean…
Philippines UAC announces takeover bid for Infigen Energy
UAC Energy Holdings, a joint venture of Ayala’s AC Energy and Hong Kong-based UPC Renewables Group, said it would offer $777 million to buy Infigen Energy, one of Australia’s most prominent renewables companies. June 4, 2020Marija…
Women leaders in the energy sector increased in 2019 but more work must be done
Advocacy group POWERful Women, in partnership with PwC, this week published the latest ‘state of the nation’ report on gender balance in the UK energy industry.
The 2020 annual board statistics show progress in the number of women…
Excelsior and Unico Solar for long-term partnership to build 250-MW of C&I solar projects
This week, renewable energy investor, Excelsior Energy Capital, and solar energy systems developer and investor, Unico Solar Investors, announced the closing of a joint-venture partnership to build, own and operate a 250-MW pipeline of…
Wodonga wastewater plant goes solar as Photon Energy tapped for $7 million contract
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A wastewater treatment plant that services the Victorian regional town of Wodonga is set to be powered by a 3MW ground-mounted solar system after Photon Energy Australia was awarded the $A7.2 million contract for the…
Q Cells invests $5m in SwitchDin to tap solar and battery management technology
One Step Off The Grid
Global solar giant Q Cells has tapped the distributed energy management software platform of Australian start-up SwitchDin, to pair with its recently launched Q.Home solar and storage package, combining PV panels, a…