Siemens AG has announced a partnership with Hydrogen Renewables Australia (HRA) that will deliver a 5GW combined solar, wind and hydrogen production facility in Western Australia. The Murchison Renewable Hydrogen Project will produce green hydrogen from the energy generated by the solar and wind elements of...
Canberra is set to become the first city outside Europe to run entirely from renewable energy when it switches to 100% renewables on January 1st 2020. The Australian capital will join seven other districts around the world that produces or purchase the equivalent of their total...
Australia has achieved its 2020 target for generating electricity from large-scale renewable sources a year ahead of plan, according to the country’s Clean Energy Regulator. The 33,000GWh target, launched in 2001 and reduced in 2015, was achieved on August 30 after the approval of the 148.5MW...
A new report by Green Energy Markets has found that renewable sources provided significantly more electricity than brown coal and gas in Australia during the recent summer months. Renewable energy produced 128% more MWh of electricity than gas and 23% more than brown coal over the...
Hydrogen gas produced by solar and wind energy as well as brown coal is set to become the next big focus for Australia’s energy industry and export market, according to a recent report. The report, conducted for the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) by consultants ACIL...
The state of New South Wales has outlined plans to fast track the development of AUS$2.6 billion worth of transmission capacity in preparation of a host of solar and wind assets connecting to the grid. The plans were drafted after several renewable energy developers in NSW...
A renewable energy construction boom in Victoria is set to create more than 6,000 annual jobs, according to a new report by Green Energy Markets (GEM), commissioned by GetUp. Victoria is officially creating more large-scale renewable energy construction jobs that any other Australian state, with 5,169...
Queensland is on the verge of a $24 billion renewable energy boom according to a new report by Green Energy Markets (GEM), commissioned by Solar Citizens. The study found that Queensland could generate more than 90% of its electricity needs from renewable energy sources by 2030...
Australian clean energy developer CWP Renewables has joined with Swiss investment manager Partners Group to deliver over 1.3GW of solar, wind and battery projects across New South Wales. Partners Group has pledged to invest AUS$700 million in the development of the large-scale renewable energy platform. The group’s...