Oceania

Sicona Safeguards AU$ 3.7 M to Expand Battery Materials Tech
This newest capital injection follows the company's $1 million seed round in July 2020, the honor of a $704k 'Accelerating Commercialisation' Grant by the Australian Federal Government in November 2020, as well as Sicona's involvement in the prestigious Startmate accelerator in its Summer 2021 climate technology mate. The financing round was led by worldwide endeavor company Artesian as well as US-based Riverstone Ventures, an associate of Riverstone Holdings.
Aug 12, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Storage, Australia, Oceania, Christiaan Jordaan, Kevin Wang, Riverstone Holdings, Sicona Battery Technologies Pty Ltd
Octopus to release Fluence's automated prospective buyer software for Australian solar farm
Octopus Investments Australia has deployed Fluence's AI-powered trading platform to optimize the result of its 333MW Darlington Point Solar Farm in New South Wales (NSW).
Aug 10, 2021 // Software, Australia, NEM, Oceania, Fluence, machine learning, octopus investments
AGL & Wärtsilä to Build 250MW Grid-scale BESS in South Australia
AGL has actually revealed to spend $180 million for its BESS project in South Australia. The battery is billed as the second largest grid scale battery ahead up.
Aug 9, 2021 // Storage, Australia, AGL Energy, Oceania, Markus Brokhof, sushil purohit, Torrens Islands, Wärtsilä Energy Solutions
Roof PV is Australia's Second Largest Generator Now, says AEC
At more than 14.7 GW roof solar is now the 2nd biggest generator by capacity in Australia, according to the Australian Energy Council's latest Quarterly Solar Report. While coal-fired generation has more capacity, roof solar is continuing to broaden with 109,000 systems installed in the 2nd quarter this year.
Aug 6, 2021 // Rooftop PV, Australia, Oceania, Sarah McNamara, Australian Energy Council, AEC
AEMO releases report outlining five scenarios for Australia's energy future
The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has actually published a collection of preparation and forecasting publications under the 2021 Inputs, Assumptions and Scenarios (IASR) report that existing 5 various visions of Australia's future.
Aug 5, 2021 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, AEMO, hydrogen, Oceania, scenarios
Victoria intends grid upgrades to sustain renewable resource zones
The Australian state of Victoria has introduced six grid upgrade projects as part of efforts to open new renewables investment.
Aug 3, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Grids, Victoria, Australia, Oceania, rez
Fire at Tesla Big Battery in Victoria Places The Spotlight On Threats
With large storage in focus globally for its role, the battery fire in Australia will put the emphasis back on security. Though overall, the dangers continue to be little of significant damages, the fact that these batteries are readied to play such an important duty in total grid balancing, implies unique efforts to understand even more fool evidence protection as well as safety and security.
Aug 2, 2021 // Storage, TESLA, Victoria, Australia, neoen, Oceania
The sunlight that powers solar panels additionally damages them ... yet 'gallium doping' is providing a service
The procedure of making gallium-doped photovoltaic panels was under a patent till last year. It's just since this approach has started to pick up vapor.
Aug 2, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, Solar Panels, solar cells, Oceania, PV panel, University of New South Wales’s School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, gallium
BHP, TransAlta to Build $54 M Solar+ Storage Space Project in Western Australia
Mining titan BHP has actually appointed a 48.2 MW solar-plus-storage hybrid power center to assist power its Nickel West procedures. This will aid BHP minimize exhausts from electricity use at Mt Keith and Leinster by 12 percent, based on FY2020 levels, said the firm.
Aug 2, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Australia, Oceania, John Kousinioris, bhp, transalta, Eddy Haegel
Scientist Make Instance for Gallium-doped p-type Heterojunction Solar Cells
Australian-Russian Research team has actually created Gallium-doped p-type SHJ solar cell wafers. They are 22.6% efficient with better stability and also cheaper costs.
Jul 26, 2021 // Technology, Manufacturing News, Australia, solar cells, heterojunction, Oceania, Hevel Solar, n-type solar wafers, p-type gallium-doped wafers, Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells, University of New South Wales
New South Wales federal government authorizes plan for 400MW solar farm with 200MWh battery storage space
Stubbo Solar Farm and Battery, a project under growth in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, which would certainly pair 400MW of solar with 200MW/ 200MWh of battery energy storage space, has actually taken a step better to going on.
Jul 16, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Australia, Oceania, solar farm
NSW Govt Gives Go-ahead to 400 MW Solar-Battery Plant in Australia
The Stubbo Solar Farm and Battery project will be integrated in the Central West-Orana Renewable Energy Zone, Australia. It will include 800,000 single-axis tracking solar modules and a battery energy storage system.
Jul 16, 2021 // Plants, Storage, Australia, Oceania, new south wales, Renewable Energy, Killian Wentrup, Orana region, Stubbo Solar Farm and Battery project, UPC\AC Renewables
AEMO principal wants Australia's grids prepared for 100% renewables by 2025
The new principal of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has said he desires the country's grids to be with the ability of dealing with 100% renewables by 2025.
Jul 16, 2021 // Grids, Australia, AEMO, Oceania, rooftop solar, Daniel Westerman
Asia Pacific PV ability to triple by 2030 as China leads development, claims Wood Mackenzie
Solar PV capacity in Asia Pacific might triple to 1,500 GW by 2030, with China driving deployment and Indonesia readied to be the area's fastest-growing market, according to Wood Mackenzie.
Jul 14, 2021 // Plants, Markets & Finance News, Japan, India, Wood Mackenzie, China, Australia, Asia, Oceania, Indonesia, Vietnam, Asia Pacific
World's Biggest Green Energy Center Recommended for Western Australia
The world's largest renewable energy project has been proposed in Western Australia, covering a location half the size of Belgium.
Jul 13, 2021 // Plants, Australia, Europe, Oceania, Belgium, Martin Tengler, Alanna McTiernan