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Alinta's $100M+ Big Battery for Western Australia
Alinta Energy is making progress towards a $100 million 100 MW/200 MWh big battery in southwest Western Australia. Co-located with a 380 MW gas and diesel-fired power plant, it is expected to support the SWIS and back-up energy capacity when needed. Shanghai Electric Power Design Institute and Sunterra will be responsible for delivering the battery. BlackRock and Eku Energy are investing up to $1 billion and $400 million respectively in big battery projects in Australia.
Aug 22, 2023 // Storage, Western Australia, Alinta Energy
New South Wales Approves Major Solar-BESS Project
New South Wales greenlights a transformative 100-MW solar park, poised to power 40,000 homes and drive emission reductions with innovative energy solutions.
Sep 16, 2024 // Storage, new south wales
EDPR Unveils 100-MW Solar Park for Amazon in Mississippi
EDP Renewables powers Amazon's green goals with the new 100-MW Ragsdale Solar Park, boosting North America's clean energy transition and corporate sustainability efforts.
Feb 20, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Amazon, EDP Renewables, PV Power Plant
Yindjibarndi Energy Plans 1-GW Renewable Hub in Pilbara
YEC's Baru-Marnda Project: A 1-GW wind-solar hub transforming Pilbara's energy landscape, partnering with Rio Tinto for a greener future.
Jul 3, 2025 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, PV Power Plant, pilbara
Amazon briefly shuts down solar roofs in all US facilities due to fires
A fire burst out at an Amazon warehouse in Maryland in June 2021 because of an 'unspecified occasion including the solar panel system'
Sep 5, 2022 // Rooftop PV, USA, Amazon, North America
South Australia launches tender for 700 MW dispatchable clean capacity
South Australia opened a tender to contract 700 MW of long-duration, dispatchable capacity—likely batteries and other storage—to strengthen grid resilience and reliability
Oct 27, 2025 // Plants, Battery Storage, tender, South Australia, grid resilience, dispatchable capacity
OX2 Sells 119 MW Solar Project in Victoria, Australia
Swedish developer OX2 AB sells a 119-MWac solar project in Australia, set to power 51,000 homes by 2027, while solidifying their local market presence with 1 GW of projects.
Sep 6, 2024 // Markets & Finance News, Australia, Oceania, Solar Project, OX2
Brookfield indications 600MW take care of Amazon
Relocate will certainly bring wind, solar to the retail titan's operations in Europe, North America as well as India
Nov 30, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, India, Amazon, Europe, Asia, Brookfield, Ruth Kent
GE Joins 500 MW Pumped Hydro Storage Project in Australia
GE Renewable Energy and also Walcha Energy will jointly create the 500 MW Dungowan pumped hydro storage space project in the New England REZ in NSW, Australia.
Aug 5, 2020 // Storage, Australia, Oceania, GE Renewable Energy, Simon Currie, Pascal Radue
Amazon to Resource Green Electricity from Japanese Company Itochu
Clean Energy Connect (CEC), which is also a part of the Itochu group, has inked a business power purchase agreement (cPPA) to offer renewable resource to Amazon for twenty years. Amazon will certainly get green power at a set price.
Feb 15, 2023 // Markets & Finance News, Japan, Amazon, Asia, Itochu, CEC, green energy, meta, Clean Energy Connect, corporate power purchase agreement, CPPA, data centers, decarboniing data centers, small solar power projects
Q-Energy acquires financing for Polish solar farm with Amazon PPA
Spanish renewables financial investment platform Q-Energy last week stated it has shut financing for a 113-MWp (87-MW AC) solar farm in Poland that will create electricity for United States technology group Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN).
Oct 11, 2022 // Markets & Finance News, PPA, Poland, Amazon, Europe, Q-Energy, solar farm
Amp Energy closes funding for 120MW solar project in New South Wales
Renewables programmer Amp Energy has safeguarded financing for a 120MW solar setup in the Australian state of New South Wales that is expected to start energisation in early 2022.
Sep 17, 2021 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Markets & Finance News, Natixis, Australia, Oceania, AMP Energy, Dean Cooper
1414 Degrees to develop the suspended Aurora CSP site in South Australia
The Australian energy storage company is planning the acquisition of SolarReserve Australia II, owing three solar sites in Australia. 1414 Degrees is about to create a huge solar park with 400 megawatts of photovoltaic capacity and a few thousand MWh of thermal storage.
Dec 2, 2019 // Storage, Thermal, Solar to Fuel, Australia, Oceania, Aurora CSP, 1414 Degrees, thermal, Solar to Fuel, Solar to Hydrogen, Producing Hydrogen, Hydrogen from renewable, Renewable fuels
ACEN Australia cuts ribbon on 400-MW solar park in NSW
ACEN Australia, a unit of Philippine energy group ACEN Corporation (PSE: ACEN), has inaugurated the first phase of its 720-MW New England solar park in New South Wales, the firm claimed today.
Mar 16, 2023 // Plants, Large-Scale, Commercial, Australia, Oceania, nsw, Solar Park, ACEN
Amazon pledges zero emissions by 2040
Amazon unveiled a number of new climate initiatives this week, including 80% renewables by 2024, zero emissions by 2040, a fleet of 100,000 electric vans and a $100 million investment in reforestation measures.
Sep 20, 2019 // Solar, USA, Amazon, North America, Jeff Bezos, Sally Jewell, The Nature Conservancy