Australia

The Australian government has today committed to getting to web zero exhausts by 2050 but has not passed any kind of regulation to support such a shift in a move referred to as "frustrating" as well as "unambitious" by the country's Clean Energy Council.

Strategies to pilot an innovative all-Australian made hydrogen hybrid battery storage option across 10s of sub-5MW solar farms throughout local Victoria as well as NSW have been underwritten by the Commonwealth Bank.

Mining business Rio Tinto is wanting to release an additional 6GW of solar as well as wind in Australia as part of a new strategy to reduce its carbon exhausts by 50% by 2030.

Australian renewable power manufacturer Frazium Energy has actually tattooed a deal with the government of Eswatini, also known as Swaziland, to develop a 100-MW solar park in the South African Kingdom.

Australian oil as well as gas titan Woodside is partnering with U.S.-based focused solar expert Heliogen to construct a 5 MW solar thermal demo plant in California. The project will certainly provide tidy energy with almost 24/7 availability.

Canadian pension plan financier OMERS Infrastructure has acquired a 49% interest in the Australian renewable energy platform of utility-scale solar programmer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV).

Australia's Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) has taken a 60% risk in Dutch firm High yield Energy Technologies (HyET) Group to help in its aspiration to supply 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen worldwide by 2030.

A new generation of low-cost, lasting and effective solar cells is a step better, thanks to scientists at The University of Queensland.

With generation capability coming to a head at 9,104 MW at midday on October 6, 2021, roof solar has established yet an additional record in Australia. Even more, in September 2021, renewables provided a record 35.4 per cent share of generation on Australia's main grid.

Energy storage and also e-mobility remedies firm New HOrizons Ahead (NHOA), which was previously known as Engie EPS, has actually won a 200MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Australia.

A leading Australian barrister and also previous head of the Law Council of Australia has said the federal government's strategies to invest public money into nonrenewable fuel source production could be prohibited, is open to severe lawful difficulty as well as is "at odds" with the purpose of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).

Independent power producer (IPP) Total Eren has actually gotten property administration software supplier Inaccess to keep track of the procedure of numerous of its solar PV plants in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, and also Kazakhstan.

A three-day blaze that entirely incinerated two large Tesla batteries at a vast energy storage space website in Australia was probably triggered by a coolant leakage, safety regulators said Tuesday.

UK eco-friendly business RES has actually sold its Avonlie solar advancement project to Spanish electric utility Iberdrola. The project lies in New South Wales, Australia, and also is RES' biggest ever solar advancement with generating capacity standing at 245 MW dc/ 190 MW ac.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has released an AU$ 50 million (US$ 36 million) programme to support microgrid pilot projects and also enhance the reliability of electrical energy supply across regional Australia.