No looking back: Energy Transition in Australia and New Zealand

In many ways, this year was the tipping point for renewable energy. The world has woken up to the imperative of energy transition, and countries around the world have made progress...

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Daily Shorts: Albemarle scraps Liontown purchase, E.ON risks falling behind RE transition, and more

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US lithium miner Albemarle withdrew its proposal to acquire Australia's Liontown Resources for A$6.6 billion, citing "growing complexities" over the deal. Following the announcemen...

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Riverina BESS, NSW’s largest battery storage system begins operations

The Federation Asset Management Pty Ltd (Federation) and Edify Energy Pty Ltd (Edify) on Monday, Oct. 9 announced that they have begun operations of N...

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Daily Shorts: UAE's first commercial wind farm, Japan will subsidize hydrogen aeroplanes, and more

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The UAE launched its first commercial-scale wind power project, a 104 MW installation at four sites run by the emirates' green power company Masdar. Electricity from the wind farm ...

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Daily Shorts: Repsol buys ConnectGen in RE pivot, IT honcho will ship solar power from Australia to Singapore, and more

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Spanish energy company Repsol acquired US renewable energy developer ConnectGen for $768 million, as part of the oil company's plan to pivot from fossil fuels to renewables. The an...

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Daily Shorts: US okays 704 MW offshore wind farm, APA buys $1.1 bn Australian assets

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The US has greenlighted a 704 MW wind farm consisting of 65 wind turbines and two offshore sub-stations off the coast of Rhode Island, as part of plans to install 30 GW of offshore...

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Weekend Roundup: World Bank to fund 1,000 mini grids in Nigeria, Alberta pauses green approvals

The World Bank will help fund 1,000 solar-based mini grids in Nigeria along with the country's government and private sector, President Ajay Banga said. The bank has funded 150 suc...

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Brookfield and Reliance Industries to manufacture clean energy equipment in Australia

Leading global asset management company, Brookfield Asset Management has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with India's largest private sector company, Reliance Industries...

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Queensland’s grid-scale battery ‘Big Bessie’ goes live

Genex Power's (Genex) Bouldercombe Battery Project has come online outside Rockhampton in Queensland, Australia. With a capacity of 50MW and 100MWh of storage, the Boulde...

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Rio Tinto, Sumitomo building A$111 million hydrogen demonstrator for alumina refining

Rio Tinto's announcement of the demonstrator comes the success of a A$1.2 million feasibility study. Image: Rio TInto

Mining behemoth Rio Tinto and Japan's Sumitomo Corporation have announced a A$111 million demonstration project to lower carbon emissions from alumina refining. The companies will ...

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AGIG to build 10MW green hydrogen production facility in Victoria

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Australian Gas Infrastructure Group (AGIG) has announced the construction of Hydrogen Park Murray Valley (HyP Murray Valley) in the state of Victoria, which is considered as&n...

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Petronas, TotalEnergies sign deals on carbon storage in Malaysia, solar power in Australia

Power from the Australian solar project will be sent to gas company Gladstone LNG. Image courtesy: Petronas

French energy giant TotalEnergies and Malaysian petroleum powerhouse Petronas have signed two independent deals at the Energy Asia event in Kuala Lumpur, strengthening ties between...

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Australian state eyes 100 percent renewables grid in 10 years

Transgrid outlined a $16.5 billion investment proposal: $14 billion in new transmission infrastructure, another $2.2 billion in new system security infrastructure and $300 million in new operational tools and adding specialist, trained employees. Image: Pexels

Australia's most populus state could have a 100 renewable energy-based grid within 10 years, the state's power transmission company said. Transgrid, operator of the electricity tra...

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Fluence to deliver 200 MW / 400 MWh GIG-Shell Energy's Rangebank BESS in Australia

Fluence Energy has been selected by Macquarie Asset Management's Green Investment Group (GIG) and Shell Energy Operations to deliver the 200 MW / 400 MWh Rangebank Battery-bas...

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India-Australia Critical Minerals Partnership eyes 5 Lithium, Cobalt projects

India and Australia have reached a major milestone in working towards investment in critical minerals projects to develop supply chains between the two countries. The countries hav...

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Australia's Recharge Industries acquires battery start-up Britishvolt

Recharge Industries has announced its successful bid for ownership of Britishvolt. The company is a leading provider of battery technology, specializing in productio...

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Queensland to deploy 1.5 MWh 'Neighbourhood batteries' for Solar grid integration

Australian state of Queensland is launching 'Neighbourhood Battery' pragramme for better management and integration of the increasing penetration of solar rooftop PV in the re...

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WAE supplies large battery system for electric mining trucks in Australia

UK-based WAE (Williams Advanced Engineering) Technologies has delivered to Australia the largest battery of its kind, ready to be installed in a prototype zero-emission b...

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Carbon280 raises A$ 7.6M for 'Hydrilyte' hydrogen storage tech pilot project

Australian startup Carbon280, the developer of safe, non-toxic, and highly scalable 'Hydrilyte' hydrogen storage technology, has raised A$7.6M to fund a pi...

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CellCube to build VRF battery gigafactory in Australia for LDES

Leading manufacturer of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries (VRFB) Enerox GmbH, aka 'CellCube', and Australian clean energy storage operator North Harbour Clean Energy PTY...

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CATL targets Australia's energy transition with its energy storage solutions

At the just concluded 'All Energy Australia', the continent's largest and most anticipated clean energy event held at Melbourne last week, Chinese new energy technologies giant CAT...

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AMPYR, Shell Energy to jointly build 500 MW BESS in Australia

AMPYR Australia and Shell Energy Australia have signed a joint development agreement for a proposed battery energy storage system located in Wellington in the New South Wales regio...

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Stellantis inks pact with GME for battery-grade Nickel and Cobalt Sulphate

In pursuit of a strong EV battery value chain in the coming years, Stellantis N.V. and GME Resources Limited have announced the signing of a non-binding MOU for the future sale of ...

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Australian state pushes for biggest energy storage target; to invest $157 million to cut emissions

Australia's Victoria state on Tuesday (Sept. 27)  announced that it would introduce the biggest energy storage target in Australia and support the nation-leading tar...

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Global Progress in 'Green' transition: Australia, New Zealand

Energy storage solutions, whether applied to the power grid or EVs, make systems more flexible and are suitable for meeting low cost, low carbon electricity demands. Following is a...

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Australia's first lithium-ion giga factory completes pilot program

Australia's first lithium-ion battery giga factory has inched closer to commercial operations with the successful completion of advanced manufacturing pilot program ...

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IESA and FBICRC join forces for strengthening the battery supply chain ecosystem in India

India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) has announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Australian Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBI...

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Lake Resources, Ford ink non-binding MoU for Li offtake from the Kachi Project

Australia-based Lithium developer Lake Resources has announced that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ford Motor Company for the offtake of approxi...

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GM, Glencore ink multi-year cobalt supply agreement

General Motors has announced a multi-year sourcing agreement with multinational commodity trading and mining company Glencore. Accordingly, the latter will supply GM with cobalt fr...

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MYTLINEOS deploys Fluence IQ Bidding App across its operating solar farms portfolio in Australia

Fluence has announced that its Fluence IQ Bidding Application has been deployed at a portfolio of three Australian solar farms owned by the Greek industrial and energy company MYTI...

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