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  • HyTerra raises $6.1m for Kansas hydrogen exploration

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    HyTerra raises $6.1m for Kansas hydrogen exploration

    HyTerra (ASX:HYT) has announced a significant development in its quest to unlock the potential of natural hydrogen — the company revealed plans to raise $6.1 million to fund a multi-well exploration drilling ... more

  • TotalEnergies and SINOPEC partner on sustainable aviation fuel in China

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    TotalEnergies and SINOPEC partner on sustainable aviation fuel in China

    TotalEnergies and China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) have signed an agreement to jointly develop a Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) production unit at a SINOPEC refinery in China. The planned ... more

  • APA launches Australia's largest remote solar farm at Dugald River

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    APA launches Australia’s largest remote solar farm at Dugald River

    APA Group has officially launched the Dugald River Solar Farm (DRSF) — Australia's largest remote grid solar farm — supporting MMG, Mount Isa Mines, and New Century with solar energy backed by gas from APAâ... more

  • Jemena delivers industry first Green Finance Framework

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    GreenPower certifies Australia’s first biomethane-to-gas plant

    Australia’s first biomethane-to-gas-network injection plant has been certified by GreenPower — a government-managed renewable energy certification program — marking a significant milestone for Australiaâ€... more

  • HyTerra raises $6.1m for Kansas hydrogen exploration
  • TotalEnergies and SINOPEC partner on sustainable aviation fuel in China
  • APA launches Australia’s largest remote solar farm at Dugald River
  • GreenPower certifies Australia’s first biomethane-to-gas plant

Townsville icon The Ville goes all in on renewable energy

Major Townsville icon The Ville Resort-Casino has inked a major renewable energy deal with publicly owned CleanCo that will see the precinct powered by 100 per cent renewable energy by 2025. Announced by Minister de Brenni at the Queensland Energy and Jobs Fair in Townsville, the initiative will be enabled by the Palaszczuk Government’s Queensland Energy and Jobs Plan. The 10,000 megawatt/hour deal includes clean energy from Kaban Green Power Hub and delivery is now underway, scaling up to 100 per cent renewable by 2025. Queensland Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen Mick de Brenni said the Q... more

Dynamically managing hot water systems in South Australia

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $2.72 million in funding to PLUS ES to develop Hot Water Control Load demand management capability (the Portal) that will allow its project partner AGL Energy to access and manage up to 20,000 hot water systems in South Australia via their smart meter - a potential controllable load of up to 48 MW. AGL Energy will control the hot water load to maximise benefits from the optimisation of hot water demand and take advantage of SA Power Network’s ‘solar sponge’ Time-of-Use tariff that incentivises daytime usage of electricity to enable higher rene... more

EDF Renewables in Australia completes acquisition of Newcastle offshore wind project

EDF Renewables in Australia, a subsidiary of the French global energy player EDF, has acquired the Newcastle Offshore Wind (NOW) Farm, a floating offshore project under development. Well situated near the Port of Newcastle and energy distribution networks, the project is proposed for the Hunter-Central Coast Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) as part of the NSW Government Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap. It will be developed in stages to support the Australian government’s renewable targets and align with the progressive retirement of the ageing coal-fired power stations in the region. Initial project ... more

Vast Solar CSP plant to receive $65 million from ARENA

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) and the Minister for Climate Change and Energy have approved funding of $65 million for VS1, Vast Solar’s 30MW/ 288MWh reference plant in Port Augusta, South Australia. The funding is another step forward for the project, which will create hundreds of jobs and be the catalyst for an Australian concentrated solar thermal power (CSP) industry. VS1 is the first utility-scale CSP plant that will deploy Vast Solar’s world-leading technology. The technology generates clean, low-cost, dispatchable power by capturing and storing the sun’s energy duri... more

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

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

Works start on $16 million carbon-neutral gas demonstration project

Construction has started on a $16 million project that will turn waste flowing to Australia’s largest wastewater treatment plant into carbon-neutral gas for use in Sydney. The Malabar Biomethane project, co-funded by Jemena and Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), will be the first in Australia to blend biomethane directly into the gas network, with the aim to start production by the end of 2022. The project will have an initial capacity of 95 Terajoules (TJ) of gas per year, which is enough gas to meet the needs of approximately 6,300 homes. Jemena estimates this number could scale up to 200TJ pe... more

FBICRC launches flagship facility to supercharge Australia’s local battery manufacturing capabilities

The Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) has launched its flagship project — the Cathode Precursor Production Pilot Plant — in Western Australia. Backed by 19 industry, research and Government participants, the launch represents a major step in Australia’s journey to expand its presence throughout the global battery value chain. The first of its kind in Australia, the Cathode Precursor Production Pilot Plant will establish the technology and capabilities for Australia to design and build cathode precursor manufacturing facilities on a commercial and industrial scale. ... more

Queensland takes early lead in race to build hydrogen superhighway

Queensland has scored first State of Origin points over New South Wales and the rest of the nation, with works starting today on Australia’s first hydrogen refuelling facility at a public service station. Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen Mick de Brenni said the hydrogen refuelling stop at one of Brisbane’s busiest service stations – the bp truck stop at Port of Brisbane – would be a critical link on the east coast hydrogen superhighway. De Brenni said: “Queensland has taken an early lead in the race to transform the heavy-haulage transport sector to renewable hydrogen, just as I expe... more

Shell to start building Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant

Shell Nederland B.V. and Shell Overseas Investments B.V., subsidiaries of Shell plc, have taken the final investment decision to build Holland Hydrogen I, which will be Europe’s largest renewable hydrogen plant once operational in 2025. The 200MW electrolyser will be constructed on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam and will produce up to 60,000 kilograms of renewable hydrogen per day. The renewable power for the electrolyser will come from the offshore wind farm Hollandse Kust (noord), which is partly owned by Shell. The renewable hydrogen produced will supply the Shell Energy and Chemica... more