Projects

  • SCEE Electrical awarded $160m contract for Synergy's Collie battery

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    Synergy awards $160m contract for Collie battery project

    Synergy has awarded SCEE Electrical a $160 million contract to undertake crucial works for the Collie Battery Energy Storage System (CBESS1) in Western Australia. The Collie battery, with a capacity of 500 m... more

  • ### **WA schools virtual power plant project reaches milestone**

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    WA school virtual power plant project reaches milestone

    The Western Australian government's Schools Virtual Power Plant (VPP) project has reached a significant milestone, with the installation of VPP technology at schools in Geraldton and Kalbarri. VPPs are netwo... more

  • Hiringa Energy launches Australasia's first zero-emission green hydrogen refuelling network

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    Hiringa Energy launches zero-emission green hydrogen refuelling network

    Hiringa Energy (Hiringa), a green hydrogen company, has partnered with investors and partners to launch Australasia's first zero-emission green hydrogen refuelling network. The Hiringa Refuelling New Zealand... more

  • Qld researcher awarded fellowship to enhance rail energy efficiency

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    Researcher awarded grant to enhance QLD’s rail energy efficiency

    Dr Qing Wu, a leading researcher at CQUniversity's Centre for Railway Engineering, has been awarded an Advance Queensland Industry Research Fellowship worth $360,000 over three years by the Queensland governmen... more

  • Synergy awards $160m contract for Collie battery project
    03 May, 2024
  • WA school virtual power plant project reaches milestone
    30 Apr, 2024
  • Hiringa Energy launches zero-emission green hydrogen refuelling network
    30 Apr, 2024
  • Researcher awarded grant to enhance QLD’s rail energy efficiency
    29 Apr, 2024
Wind Turbine

AGL to offtake renewable energy from Rye Park Wind Farm

AGL Energy has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Tilt Renewables to offtake electricity generated from the Rye Park Wind Farm in New South Wales. The agreement is the first PPA to be signed since AGL and its partners QIC and the Future Fund acquired Tilt Renewables’ Australian operations in 2021, and it is the first opportunity secured under AGL’s access to Tilt Renewables’ platform. The 15-year agreement provides AGL with an offtake of 45 per cent of the output of Rye Park, that share being approximately 513 GWh derived from 178 MW of capacity. This is electricity that could otherwise ... more
Barcaldine

Barcaldine Renewable Energy Zone gets green light 

A $7 million Queensland Government investment will support the proposed establishment of the Barcaldine Renewable Energy Zone (BREZ), an industrial precinct in Barcaldine which will be linked to a large-scale, renewable energy project and provide industry with low-carbon electricity. The funding will go towards the costs of the common user infrastructure, including road access, water and sewage infrastructure to support the establishment of the BREZ precinct. A number of businesses have expressed interest in the proposed BREZ precinct, including companies seeking to establish manufacturing facilities such ... more
Wambo

Wambo Wind Farm joins Queensland’s race to renewables

Ground has been broken and construction has officially begun on the Wambo Wind Farm, northwest of Dalby in Queensland. The milestone comes less than a week after the government announced a further half a billion dollars of investment to propel the development of large-scale solar and wind projects, and its commitment to maintain a majority share in energy generation. The Wambo Wind Farm is backed by a $192.5 million investment from the Queensland Government’s Renewable Energy and Hydrogen Jobs Fund for Stanwell’s 50 per centc share in the project. The wind farm, which will soon host some of the larg... more

Vast advances utility-scale concentrated solar thermal plant

Vast Solar Pty Ltd, a renewable energy company specialising in concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) energy systems that generate zero-carbon, utility-scale, dispatchable electricity and industrial process heat, has awarded Worley Ltd. key engineering contracts for its VS1 CSP project. Basic engineering is to be completed by July with ground breaking slated for 2024. VS1 is a 30MW / 288 MWh CSP plant being built in Port Augusta, South Australia. Utilising Vast’s proprietary modular tower CSP v3.0 technology, VS1 will generate clean, low-cost, dispatchable power with over 8 hours of thermal energy storag... more
Australian households could save significantly on bills

Australian households could save significantly on water and energy bills

An in-depth review of over 20,000 Melbourne households revealed significant greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, energy consumption, and associated costs that may be lowered through greater water efficiency. Water use in Melbourne houses accounts for 3.8 per cent of GHG emissions, which is comparable to total domestic and international travel in Australia. Researchers from Monash University and The University of Queensland have indicated that a Melbourne-wide program entailing a simple shower head retrofit could reduce customer bills by $160 and lower GHG emissions by between 98 and 226 kilo-tonnes per year, wh... more

Transforming wastewater treatment for a greener Victoria

Wastewater treatment in Melbourne’s west is about to be transformed thanks to a $711 million investment to modernise the plant to ensure the health and sanitation needs of Victoria’s growing population are met for generations to come. VIC Minister for Water Harriet Shing recently announced the start of works on a new Resource Recovery and Re-Use Complex — the first major milestone in the modernisation of the Western Treatment Plant. “Innovation and efficiency in wastewater treatment has enabled Victoria to lead in adaptation to climate change, our circular economy and delivering large-scale improve... more

Hybrid design revealed as lowest carbon footprint for new Kyklos building in Luxembourg

UNStudio, with local partner HYP Architects, were recently announced by the Atenor, Arhs group and Agora Luxembourg as the winners in the competition for the design of the Kyklos building in Belval, Luxembourg, and have found a hybrid steel-concrete design would provide the lowest carbon footprint. Belval is a redevelopment project that has successfully transformed an old industrial site in Luxembourg into an urban centre that now houses a university and technological centre, residential and office spaces, in addition to hotels and retail. The Kyklos building will be the last building to shape the Central Squ... more
Adaptive reuse saves up to 400 rail cars full of coal - Morris Moor

Building’s adaptive reuse saves on embodied carbon

The 1960s industrial precinct formerly owned by Philip Morris has been sustainably transformed into a $200 million commercial community, the adaptive reuse process included the retainment of the existing structure throughout the build. This has resulted in savings to date of 19 million kilograms of embodied carbon — which is the equivalent of 400 rail cars full of coal. After the completion of Building 4, the project’s builder — Kapitol Group — delivered a construction program in which these embodied carbon savings contributed to the developer’s overall goal for the site to increase energy effici... more
Pure Hydrogen

Pure Hydrogen advances hydrogen hub strategy with land acquisition

Pure Hydrogen Corporation Limited has secured the option to acquire 21 hectares of land to establish emerald hydrogen manufacturing facilities with Joint Venture partner CAC-H₂. The site is a 21-hectare lot, adjacent to the Beerburram State Forest. The site was selected due to its strategic proximity to high-population SEQ regions, facilitating the supply of clean and affordable hydrogen to customers from the Sunshine Coast down to the Gold Coast. Under the terms of the Joint Venture, CAC-H₂ will produce the hydrogen through the deployment of a technology process which converts hydrogen from woody bio-... more
Mauritania

bp and Mauritania to explore green hydrogen at scale

bp has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Government of Mauritania under which it will deliver an innovative programme exploring the potential for large-scale production of green hydrogen in the country. The agreement, signed in a meeting alongside COP27, could be an important step towards the development of significant green hydrogen production in Mauritania. Under the agreement, bp will carry out a number of studies to evaluate the technical and commercial feasibility of producing green hydrogen in Mauritania. Green hydrogen is produced by the electrolysis of water, powered by renewable ... more
green methanol

MoU progresses commercialisation of green methanol production

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company (MGC) and Cement Australia (CA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to further the commercialisation of methanol production, using green hydrogen in Gladstone. MGC's newly-developed Circular Carbon Methanol production technology will be applied to capture carbon dioxide from CA's Gladstone Plant. Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment Cameron Dick said the MoU is an important step on the journey towards the commercial production of green methanol. “This joint feasibility study into the $150 million first-stage green methanol plant underlines the str... more

Federal Government’s budget commits to new Electrolysis Plant at Hobart site

Nyrstar Australia’s vice president Dale Webb has welcomed the $50 million in Commonwealth funding towards construction of a new $400 million Electrolysis Plant in this week’s Federal budget. “Today’s announcement by the Federal Government demonstrates again the value of what we do in Australia and the importance of this new Electrolysis Plant to our sector and Tasmania,” said Mr Webb. “This ensures that the next generation of employees and businesses in Tasmania will continue to play an important role in the manufacturing of zinc, a mineral critical for the transition to a low carbon world. ... more