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space, claimed in a statement that the contracts originate from North America, Australia and also Asia. It plans to give further information "in due time". NHOA kept

Solar Challenge race title. After this race-- which is set to take place in Australia in October-- Vattenfall will step down as the team's major sponsor. Over the

At 15% share of its complete power generation, Vietnam is second just to Australia," said Wood Mackenzie expert Xin Zhang. Indonesia's solar ability is expected

renewables developer Windlab has announced that its landmark energy hub in the Australian state of Queensland has been connected to the grid. The Kennedy Energy Hub is

200MW solar project planned for Victoria, southern Australia, has been denied planning permission by the state's planning arbitrator. In its decision, the

REZ, sets the state approximately come to be the number one location across Australia for renewable energy financial investment." REZs involve making calculated

State Government of New South Wales, Australia, has officially kicked off the nation's biggest renewable energy and also storage policy, the NSW Electricity

has a solar development pipe of 2.7 GW across Ireland, the USA, UK and also Australia, along with 23MW of running assets in the USA. AIB's EUR8.5 m investment will

energy major Engie has taken a digital stake in Australia’s storage boom, signing a virtual power-purchase agreement (VPPA) for the entire first stage of

utility-scale arrays, underscoring how local sentiment can make or break Australia’s renewables pipeline. Unwelcome in the neighbourhood Proposed for

pipeline, which includes wind and standalone storage assets across Europe and Australia. Sweden's goal of 100% fossil-free electricity by 2040 has facilitated

Australia’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has invited comments on Fortescue Ltd’s proposed 644-MW Turner River Solar Hub, a vast PV array

Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has fired up the country’s first “beam-down” solar reactor at its Newcastle Energy Centre—an innovation that captures concentrated sunlight, points it downwards and turns water into green hydrogen in one seamless step.  Conventional tower systems focus heliostat mirrors on a receiver at the top of the tower. CSIRO’s redesign places a secondary mirror there, redirecting the intense beam to ground-level where a fluidised bed of doped ceria particles hits temperatures beyond 1,300 °C. In a two-step redox cycle, the hot material releases oxygen; when steam is injected, it re-oxidises and yields high-purity hydrogen—no fossil fuel heat, no direct carbon emissions. Backed by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and developed with Niigata University, the 250-kW pilot has achieved solar-to-hydrogen efficiencies topping 20 %—roughly triple typical solar-driven electrolysis benchmarks. Researchers say the modular reactor can ramp quickly with cloud cover, making it a fit for iron, steel and alumina producers that struggle to electrify high-temperature processes.  CSIRO chemical engineer Dr Michael Rae calls the demonstration “a critical proof of concept” for exporting sunshine in molecular form: “Beam-down simplifies optics, keeps the chemistry on the ground and paves a path to hundred-megawatt solar-fuel plants.” The team is now logging performance data for a year-long campaign while scouting industry partners to scale a multi-megawatt follow-up.  While green-hydrogen headlines often focus on electrolyser gigafactories, solar-thermochemical routes like beam-down promise deeper cuts in embedded emissions by ditching grid electricity altogether. Analysts at RenewEconomy note that if the pilot meets durability targets, Australia could combine its vast sunbelt, mineral exports and shipping links to Japan and Korea into a new energy trade built on carbon-free molecules rather than LNG. The Newcastle breakthrough comes amid a global race to decarbonise “hard-to-abate” sectors. Europe’s HySys program and U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory are field-testing similar redox cycles, yet CSIRO’s beam-down marks the first fully integrated solar-hydrogen trial at meaningful scale. Commercial-scale units, researchers estimate, could be online before 2030—just in time for steelmakers facing the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and other tightening climate policies.

expert Ingeteam has won the technology package for Maryvale, eastern Australia’s first DC-coupled solar-plus-storage project, marking a breakthrough in

world’s most ambitious clean-energy ventures—the USD 36 billion Australian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH)—signaling a decisive shift back toward the