An area covering 1,854 square kilometres off NSW’s Hunter region was declared suitable for offshore wind development by the federal government on Wednesday. According to a statement from the department of energy, the zone is 20 km from the coast in the north and over 35 km from the coast in the south and has…
The latest round of electricity generation Capacity Investment Scheme (CIS) auctions are underway which are aimed at unlocking around $10 billion of investment and adding 6GW to support grid reliability and security. The federal and New South Wales governments today announced auctions that will deliver almost one gigawatt of additional dispatchable capacity, eliminating the forecast…
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will invest $30 million to support development of a domestic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry based on conversion of agricultural feedstocks. Announcing the programme the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen said that a homegrown SAF industry could help decarbonise the hard-to-abate aviation sector and create thousands…