By Peter Roberts Queensland, a state only a few years seemingly totally committed to coal fired electricity generation as well as fossil fuel export, is putting on a greener front as investments in green energy reap quick results. According to the government the state is halfway to achieving its 2030 renewable energy target with a…
HMAS Ballarat gets its new mast HMAS Ballarat recently received a brand new mast that will provide its sailors with a new Australian manufactured L-Band high power active phase array radar, and an integrated ‘friend and foe’ capability. The new radar, with CEA Technologies’ CEAFAR and CEAMOUNT phased array radars, are becoming standard on Australian…
A truly innovative decarbonisation project has got underway in the cotton growing region of Moree in New South Wales where growers plan to make their own fertilisers locally using locally produced green hydrogen. Green hydrogen company Hiringa Energy and agricultural and pastoral enterprise Sundown Pastoral Co have been awarded $35.8 million in funding from NSW…
By Peter Roberts The news has been full of worrying stories of late that the climate might be at that dreaded tipping point where runaway climate dislocation is really going to start affecting us in our everyday life – including the ability to carry on business as normal. From Australia’s terrible bushfires only a few…
Green hydrogen developer Pure Hydrogen is to take over HDrive which is the distributor for zero emission vehicles and its Taurus hydrogen fuel cell truck (pictured). Pure Hydrogen will acquire 60 percent of HDrive International for the equivalent of $2.2 million, with existing shareholders retaining the rest of the company which oversaw the build and…
The industrial area of Kwinana south of Perth could become a centre for cutting-edge clean energy research and training with the award of a major grant to the Kwinana Energy Transformation Hub (KETH). The KETH, the flagship project of the Future Energy Exports Cooperative Research Centre (FEnEx CRC), is envisaged as a unique industrial-scale facility…
By Peter Roberts The Minister for Climate Change and Energy has celebrated a year of achievement on tacking climate change, lambasted the climate ‘fantasy’ of the former Morrison government and outlined his next task – the creation of sector specific decarbonisation plans. In a major speech to the Clean Energy Council Bowen said he would…
The Western Australian government’s Investment Attraction Fund has committed $148.4 million for 40 new projects, including $5 million for one of the state’s first end-to-end green hydrogen production systems. Infinite Green Energy’s (IGE’s) green hydrogen production system in Northam in the state’s wheatbelt will host the small scale green hydrogen production system to supply the…
The Hallett Group has doubled down on its commitment to decarbonise its cement production with the signing of an agreement which will see two Korean companies build an electrolyser at its cement facility at Port Augusta in the mid-north of South Australia. Hallett signed a Statement of Cooperation with the South Australian Government, Elecseed and…
Explosives and fertiliser manufacturer Orica has said it will follow on from significant reductions in carbon emissions from its New South Wales ammonia nitrate facility under the federal government’s Safeguard mechanism with further cuts planned at its Queensland sites. Speaking at a Thursday press conference, Orica CEO Sanjeev Gandhi said emissions had been cut this…