Governments

Total 0 Shares Energy Queensland will get to work installing another 12 network connected batteries across the state – including two flow batteries made by local manufacturers – after another $179 million of state funding was tipped…

Total 0 Shares One of the very big questions for the Australian electricity market in 2024 will be the actual closure date for the country’s biggest coal generator, the 2.88 GW Eraring facility on NSW’s central coast. Will it close as…

Total 0 Shares The federal Labor government has effectively abandoned the long standing renewable energy target and will take a hands-on policy approach through a series of auctions to secure 32GW of new wind, solar and storage capacity…

Total 0 Shares The first stage of what will amount to Australia’s biggest storage tender has been formally kicked off, with registrations opening for 600MW and 2400 MWh of dispatchable capacity to be deployed in South Australia and…

Total 0 Shares The global electric car and storage monolith Tesla is getting ready to take on Australia’s legacy utilities in what would be a landmark move for the local grid and for consumers, and potentially disruptive for the…

Total 0 Shares Spanish energy group Naturgy has begun operations at a new 109MW wind farm in Victoria and confirmed plans to quadruple its renewable and storage capacity in Australia to more than 2.2GW over the next two years.…

Total 0 Shares Owning a four-hour duration battery over the past 12 months would have been very profitable. More batteries would be built if Australia had an investment tax credit similar to the US. Such a credit would encourage more…

Total 0 Shares The cost of wind, solar and battery storage projects has jumped by between 20 and 60 per cent over the last two years, and show little prospect of any immediate reduction. That is the assessment of Neoen, the French…

Total 0 Shares The bid to kick fossil gas out of Australian homes, electrify everything and power it with solar is off and running in New South Wales, with the launch of an $8 million pilot to decarbonise three local communities across…

Total 0 Shares Monopoly electricity network companies have won limited rights to own and operate community batteries after the Australian Energy Regulator granted a waiver to ring fencing rules. The AER says the class waiver will allow…