The 226 megawatt Murra Warra Wind Farm Stage One has announced financial close this week after securing investments from developer Renewable Energy Systems and banking giant Macquarie Group, which will allow construction to commence immediately.
The Green Party in Australia is proposing a ban on all internal combustion cars and light trucks by 2030 as part of a series of measures designed to boost sales of electric cars Down Under.
A new analysis from the Australian Automobile Association (AAA) has (again) confirmed as much — with Volkswagen diesel cars being found to use up to 14% more fuel after being recalled and “fixed” than previously. Even after the software fix in the vehicles in question was implemented, NOx emissions were still over 400% higher than the levels seen in lab testing.
WePower is building a blockchain platform to allow renewable projects to get funding. As part of an ongoing series on blockchain for clean technology, five questions were put to them.
In the last couple of years, there has been a growing a number of news articles and blog posts published about energy storage, particularly in the form of battery systems. This interest is very reasonable and the news is exciting because these systems can fill in wind power and solar power electricity production gaps. In many places, they could replace gas-powered peaker plants.
UK-based billionaire Sanjeev Gupta is looking to buy equipment from and use part of the old Holden factory in South Australia to create an electric vehicle production line. That would be a significant part of remarkable transformation of Australia’s car industry and economy.
The response to the Tesla big battery has been so immense that the owners and operators of what is known officially to the market as the Hornsdale Power Reserve have published a widget to enable the operations of the facility to be monitored.
Households and businesses played a key role in reducing peak demand and capping wholesale electricity costs in South Australia last month, with data showing that rooftop solar played a major role in reducing and deferring demand peaks in the midst of the heatwave.
Australia’s first large-scale solar farm co-located with a wind farm was formally opened this month, the first of more than a dozen projects likely to follow suit within the next few years.
The Australian Capital Territory is to trial its first “gas-free” suburb as part of the next step in its push for 100% renewable energy in the nation’s capital.
