The largest wind project in the Southern Hemisphere – Golden Plains – has reached a pair of milestones including securing TagEnergy as equity investor and Vestas, a Danish manufacturer of wind turbines to deliver engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) for the project.
Farming communities say high voltage power lines linking wind farms to urban centres will upend their livelihoods.
Australia’s liquefied natural gas industry has called for more land to be opened up for exploration after the EU issued a proposal that declared some forms of the fossil fuel a green energy source.
A flood of renewable energy has helped drive down household power prices to their lowest levels in almost a decade, according to a report which suggests Australia has some of the cheapest electricity in the world.
Incitec Pivot (IPL) is Australia’s largest supplier of fertilisers, producing around two million tonnes of ammonia each year for use in Australian agriculture. Its Gibson Island plant in Brisbane (Queensland) was under threat of closure due to the high cost of gas. Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL) have completed initial studies to convert IPL’s Gibson Island ammonia-production facility to run on zero-carbon green hydrogen.
Australia’s fast-emerging offshore wind sector ramped up another notch as global developer BlueFloat Energy revealed details of 4.3GW of planned projects – and said more will follow soon.
When people think about climate action, they picture solar panels and wind farms, but there’s another less well-known but just as crucial ingredient in Australia’s clean energy shift.
The CEO of Australia’s mining company, Woodside, Meg O’Neill told investors that the company would invest US $5 billion in emerging new energy markets by 2030.
Hydrogen produced by fossil fuels is more expensive, will release more greenhouse gas emissions and comes with a greater risk of creating stranded assets, according to new research from the Australian National University.
The 56MW Agnew power system is Australia’s biggest mine site micro-grid, first to have wind turbines. There is about 2GW of off-grid power demand in Australia across mining and resource projects. Industry estimates billions of dollars will be needed to meet half the demand from clean sources.