Edify’s hybrid projects get double tick from capacity investment scheme
Edify Energy has been awarded two Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) agreements for its co-located hybrid Ganymirra and Majors Creek solar and battery power stations in Townsville, North Queensland.
Global solar supply chain investments key to easing reliance on China: USA report
A report released by the United States Studies Centre, a joint venture of the American Australian Association and University of Sydney, encourages Australia to deeply engage in global solar supply chains, to reduce its reliance on China.
Vulcan in line for $196 million debt finance for sustainable lithium business
The Australian government agency Export Finance Australia has conditionally approved $196 million commitment to Vulcan Energy as part of their debt financing process for an integrated lithium and renewable energy project.
CIS generation tender 1 will deliver 2.75 GW of solar generation to the NEM
Twelve of the 19 successful Capacity Investment Scheme Tender 1 bids have been allocated for 2,750 MW of solar generation, split between New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland.
Female sparky numbers rising but remain untapped resource for energy transition
Though women in electrical trades grew a record 65% in the past few years and 17% of the energy sector workforce in Australia being women, just 4% are soley employed in hands-on trade roles, such as electricians.
EliTe Solar opens solar cell production facility in Indonesia
Just a few months after beginning construction on a cell manufacturing factory in Egypt, Singapore’s EliTe Solar has opened a cell manufacturing facility in Indonesia, which took around eight months to complete from site selection to opening.
Renewables research benefits from $9.87 million ARC Discovery grants
The Queensland University of Technology has been awarded $9.87 million from the federal government’s funding arm, the Australian Research Council’s (ARCs) Discovery grants program, to support 16 projects, including three focussed on research in hydrogen production, perovskite cells, and lithium ion batteries.
Indigenous energy developer tapped for NWIS transmission infrastructure
Australia’s largest Indigenous-led renewable energy initiatives, the Yindjibarndi Energy Corporation, has been awarded project priority status for the Western Australian Chichester Range transmission corridor, in the North West Interconnected System.
Vanadium flow battery Project Lumina progresses, gets visit from the PM
Vanadium producer Australian Vanadium’s subsidiary VSUN Energy’s vanadium flow battery Project Lumina has progressed with the appointment of service providers GenusPlus Group, Sedgman and Austrian company CellCube.
The energy transition needs social value, not social licence
The energy transition will bring more change in the next decade than over the last century combined, raising key questions for the Australian bush or the United Kingdom countryside about the role of social licence versus social value.
