In a remarkably short-sighted and catastrophic move for the Australian renewable energy industry, the country’s government has reached a cross-bench agreement with the opposition party to strip $500 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Rumors and promises of cutting funding to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) … [continued]
Amidst calls for the cessation of just such funding, Australia’s Renewable Energy Agency has approved twelve large-scale solar PV projects for funding as part of its multi-million dollar large-scale solar funding round. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced funding this week for twelve new large-scale solar PV power plants … [continued]
Global clean energy leaders have called on the Australian Government to back funding for renewable energy projects, following suggestions on both sides of the political aisle that they will hamstring the Australian Renewable Energy Agency from funding future renewable energy projects. Both the Liberal and Labor parties in Australia have … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. Australia is poised to experience its biggest ever boom in large-scale solar construction over the next year as a range of international market factors and local policy incentives take hold. A number of factors are pointing to a major investment push to large-scale solar, a boom … [continued]
Australia’s Clean Energy Council has argued convincingly against legislation intended to cut future renewable energy grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. “Legislation to be introduced to Parliament this week includes a $1 billion cut to ARENA’s grants funding, and puts everything that it has achieved at risk,” said Clean … [continued]
One of the world’s largest downstream solar companies, Conergy, has started construction on what will likely be a world first ‘islanding’ solar and storage project in Australia’s north. The $42.5 million project is set to be developed in Lakeland, in far north Queensland, and will be the Southern Hemisphere’s first … [continued]
Originally published on RenewEconomy. The Australian Renewable Energy Agency says the final round of bidding for its large scale solar funding program shows the costs of the technology are still falling, and will likely continue to fall. ARENA – in possibly its last grant funding round before its remaining $1.3 … [continued]
Australia’s Carnegie Wave Energy Project has set a new world record after completing 14,000 cumulative operating hours, the highest ever recorded. The news was announced by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) this week, which provided $13.1 million in funding. The $40 million project uses CETO wave energy technology, and … [continued]
Two of Australia’s leading solar experts have warned of the dangers in cutting grant funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency. Australia’s two top solar researchers, Martin Green from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), and Andrew Blakers from the Australian National University (ANU), have called on both the … [continued]
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency announced approval this week for $17 million in funding for nine R&D projects. Announced on Wednesday, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) said “nine cutting edge research and development (R&D) projects” would be supported though its latest industry-researcher collaboration R&D funding round. The projects have … [continued]
