Australia

Australia

Recharge Power partners with Energy Decarb for 292MWh battery storage pipeline in Australia

Recharge Power, a Taiwanese battery energy storage system (BESS) developer and integrator, has partnered with Australian renewable energy developer Energy Decar…

LNG

BP sells 5% stake in Australian Browse LNG project to South Korea's GS Energy

BP on June 1 said it agreed to sell 5% of its stake in the Browse liquefied natural ​gas project in Western Australia to South Korea's GS Energy.The sale l…

Australia

Fortescue accelerates Real Zero with construction of 690MW solar farm and 650MWh battery energy storage system

Construction has commenced on Fortescue’s 690MW Turner River solar farm in the Pilbara – the final solar installation required to deliver the Compan…

Australia

Blackwater mine extension proposal advances

Whitehaven Coal is progressing the paperwork for an extension project at its Blackwater operation that would give it access to another 200Mt of coal and take mi…

Australia

Amazon signs first solar-plus-storage PPAs in Australia to power AI expansion

Tech giant Amazon has announced nine new renewable energy power purchase agreements (PPAs) in Australia totalling 430MW, with eight projects featuring solar gen…

Australia

Yancoal Strikes US$2.4 Billion Deal for Australia's Largest Underground Coal Mine

Yancoal Australia has agreed to buy an 80 percent stake in Queensland’s Kestrel coal mine for up to US$2.4 billion, securing one of the country's most…

China

BYD notches up 100,000th delivery of electric and hybrid cars in Australia

Chinese car maker BYD has announced it will bring an extra 30,000 new energy vehicles – both full battery electric and plug in hybrids – to Australi…

Australia

Huge 1.6 gigawatt-hour battery gets federal green light for Queensland hub

A strategically vital and very large battery proposed for construction in Queensland’s Gladstone region has been waved through the federal environmental a…

Australia

Chevron's Wheatstone LNG Facility Faces Weeks-Long Production Halt After Cyclone Damage

Chevron said on March 29 that its Wheatstone liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Western Australia is unlikely to resume full production for several weeks a…

United States

US deep-sea mineral processing plant planned by Glomar, Australia's Cobalt Blue

Deep-sea mining firm Glomar Minerals and Australia's Cobalt Blue Holdings said on March 30 they plan to build a U.S. ‌refinery to process critical minerals…

Geothermal Drilling

I-Pulse announces strategic partnership to advance geothermal pulsed power applications in Australia

I-Pulse Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Robert Friedland, I-Pulse Co-Founder and Head of Technology, Laurent Frescaline, and Sunrise Energy Metals Managing Direc…

Australia

Kondinin Wind Farm secures long-term PPA with Synergy

The proposed Kondinin Wind Farm has signed a seven-year agreement with Synergy for 100 per cent of its energy, marking a key step in securing its future develop…

Energy Storage System

Quinbrook bags EPBC Act approval for 780MW Supernode North BESS in Australia

Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has received environmental clearance for its Supernode North battery energy storage system (BESS) project in Queensland, Austr…

Australia

AGL begins commissioning first 250 MW of grid-forming Liddell battery in Australia

Major Australian utility AGL has begun commissioning of the first 250 MW of the 500 MW / 1,000 MWh grid-forming Liddell Battery at AGL’s Hunter Energy Hub…

Australia

Australia’s New South Wales state to prohibit new coal mines

Australia’s second-largest coal-producing state, New South Wales (NSW), will prohibit new applications for fossil fuel mines as part of efforts to reduce emiss…