Solar

Total 2 Shares Australian solar thermal technology developer Vast Solar says it has put in an order for 13,500 sodium-ion batteries to form part of its proposed solar and storage facility at the Queensland mining centre of Mt Isa. The…

Total 7 Shares The International Energy Agency has – for the first time – flagged demand peaks for fossil fuels in all its scenarios after acknowledging they are almost entirely responsible for the past year’s energy price hikes, The…

Total 42 Shares The Albanese government has announced $47.5 million in funding to fast-track the development of Australia’s biggest renewable hydrogen project to date – and one of the largest in the world – in Western Australia’s…

Total 0 Shares Scott Farquhar, the billionaire co-founder with Mike Cannon-Brookes of software company Atlassian, is making his own big move into the green energy transition, reportedly leading a takeover bid for solar and storage…

Total 24 Shares The energy ministers’ meeting hosted on Wednesday by new federal minister Chris Bowen appears to have been held in a renewed spirit of co-operation, and a determination to fast-track the switch to green energy. That’s a…

One of Australia’s pioneering combined solar and battery storage projects, and one of the first grid-connected examples in the world to showcase a handful of different market services, has been bought by MPower.MPower Group says it has…

Australian renewables developer Maoneng has unveiled new plans for a massive 400MW, four-hour battery, which the company hopes to build alongside a 550MW solar farm in the New South Wales Upper Hunter region, a centre for coal…

Glenn Platt, a world-recognised former clean energy program leader at the CSIRO, remembers coming across two low-income housing tenants throwing a power cord over the back fence to share some excess solar.“OK, you can switch on now,” Platt…

UK renewables giant RES, which is developing plans for a massive wind, solar and battery storage facility in Victoria, has doubled its renewables asset management portfolio in Australia after the acquisition of Sydney firm,…

Oil and gas giant Woodside has kicked off the new year by firming up plans to develop a massive solar and battery project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, to supply renewable electricity to local industrial customers, including its…