The City of Sydney has signed a power purchase agreement with retailer Flow Power that will see it become 100% powered by renewable electricity, sourced from wind and solar farms in the state of New South Wales. The Australian city said the contract is valued at...
Spain’s Iberdrola has had an A$828 million bid for Australian wind and solar firm Infigen Energy accepted, as it looks to further grow its market share in Australia’s renewable energy sector. The Bilbao-based utility is already building a 320MW renewable energy project in South Australia, and...
Renewable energy accounted for 21% of Australia’s electricity generation in 2019, according to latest figures released by Australian Energy Statistics on Wednesday. Australian renewable energy use grew from 19% in 2018 to 21% last year, largely thanks to surging growth in the large scale solar power...
The developers of a renewable energy generation and export hub with a potential capacity of up to 15GW have received environmental backing for the project from the Western Australian Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Environmental approval for the Asian Renewable Energy Hub (AREH) was recommended this week,...
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...