Lodestone inks 20-year, 100% offset agreement with poultry giant Inghams
Aotearoa New Zealand grid-scale solar developer Lodestone Energy has partnered with leading poultry provider Inghams in a landmark 20-year agreement where energy from Lodestone’s North Island solar farms will 100% match Inghams electricity consumption.
Coca-Cola bottles 100% renewables target thanks to 1.2 million-panel solar farm
Coca-Cola has signed a virtual power purchase agreement brokered by France-headquartered energy company Engie, to source renewable energy and associated credits from the Wellington North Solar Farm in New South Wales.
Work packages awarded for 48 GWh pumped hydro project
Queensland Hydro has announced more than $190 million in work packages linked to the construction of the 2 GW / 48 GWh Borumba pumped hydro energy storage project being developed near Gympie in the state’s southeast.
Genex secures state-backed PPA for 750 MW solar project
Genex Power has struck an offtake agreement with Queensland government-owned energy giant Stanwell Corporation that will underpin the development of the 775 MW first stage of the Bulli Creek solar and battery project planned for the state’s southeast.
WA battery recycling specialist to scale up UK ambitions
Australian battery recycling startup Renewable Metals intends to expand by a factor of 10 a demonstration-scale lithium battery recycling plant being developed in the United Kingdom after raising $8.1 million in a seed extension round.
COP29 to propose 1.5 TW energy storage target by 2030
This year’s UN Climate Change Conference could adopt a target to increase global energy storage capacity more than sixfold by 2030. To achieve this, the world would need to add more than 158 GW of energy-storage capacity annually.
IPC provides green light for NSW solar and storage project
Spanish-Japanese renewable energy company Univergy Solar and Australian partner New Energy Development have secured New South Wales government approval to build a 100 MW solar farm and 45 MW / 90 MWh battery energy storage system in the Yass Valley.
Factory testing marks milestone for AVL value-adding vision
Australian Vanadium Limited has achieved another milestone in its ‘pit to battery’ strategy with the successful deployment of its vanadium electrolyte in a 78 kW / 220 kWh flow battery.
New report highlights value of long-duration storage
State and federal governments are being urged to ramp up deployment of long-duration energy storage after a new report found significant capacity additions would result in 38% lower system costs than alternatives while playing a critical role in maintaining reliability as coal plants retire over the next decade.
UQ tech captures PFAS chemicals for re-use in batteries
Researchers at the University of Queensland have developed technology to remove harmful synthetic fluorine-based chemicals from water in order to re-purpose them for use in batteries.
