Queensland’s publicly owned energy company Stanwell Corporation will build a Future Energy and Innovation Training Hub (FEITH) valued at up to $100 million as step one of the state’s investment in a Stanwell Clean Energy Hub at major regional city, Rockhampton. The size of a shopping centre, the hub will provide the ‘sandbox’ to test…
A S M Monjurul Hasan asks why we hesitate to embrace the immense potential of energy in industrial progress, and explains why lower power prices are just the beginning. In the realm of industrial energy efficiency, the prevailing narrative has long centred on energy savings, and rightfully so. After all, reducing energy consumption is a…
By Sarah Wilson, University of Technology Sydney and Rachael Wakefield-Rann, University of Technology Sydney There’s growing global concern about potential risks to human health and the environment from a group of industrial chemicals commonly known as PFAS, or “forever chemicals”. While the full extent of harm from PFAS is still emerging, the fact these chemicals…
The federal government’s Mandatory Gas Code of Conduct is now law, with the government aiming for the code to secure more gas at more reasonable prices for Australian gas users. The government said in a statement that the code would ensure Australian gas is available for Australian users at reasonable prices, give producers the certainty…
By Peter Roberts The Clean Energy Finance Corporation – which styles itself as Australia’s green bank – is to receive $20.5 billion in new capital from the federal government to accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by 2050. This acknowledgement of the success of the CEFC model comes as the corporation survived efforts to abolish…
Coal’s future as a source of electricity isn’t what it used to be, writes Jan Kwak, but the material could be a rich source of industrial chemicals. In this article he considers the challenges and opportunities involved. Australia, renowned for its abundant coal reserves, has long been a major player in the global mining industry.…
Rod Sims, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Virtually every country in the world is facing a crisis in energy costs, yet while other countries can’t do much about it, Australia can. Australia could get its east coast gas producers to supply the domestic gas market for less than A$10 a gigajoule. Earlier…
The latest budget has given the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission a boost in funding and powers to counter high gas prices. Gas users have described the current east coast energy crisis as ‘a perfect storm’ and ‘apocalyptic’. The ACCC has been given a funding injection to review the voluntary code of conduct over gas…
Adelaide appears likely to get a second factory for producing lithium ion batteries, following an announcement on Wednesday that Alpha-ESS had signed an agreement to produce over 8,000 of their home battery systems a year.
A Bloomberg New Energy Finance report released on Wednesday has put Australia in the top nine adopters of battery storage, and predicts the capital cost of utility-scale storage to more than halve over the next 12 years.
