The federal government is opening up consultations on a proposed new offshore wind energy production zone in the Southern Ocean region from Port MacDonnell in South Australia to Warrnambool in Victoria. The 5,100 square kilometre area includes Portland, which is home to one of Australia’s largest aluminium smelters operated by Alcoa and draws up to…
Renewable biomethane is being injected into Sydney’s gas distribution system following the completion of an upgrade to Sydney Water’s Malabar Wastewater Treatment Plant. The eastern suburbs facility has seen gas distributor Jemena’s Malabar Biomethane Injection Plant producing biomethane from waste and added to its gas distribution network. The plant previously processed organic material in wastewater…
Poultry manufacturer Baiada Poultry is to apply circular industry principles to both its Tamworth and Newcastle, New South Wales operations with plans to recover Biogas produced from its wastewater recovery systems. This follows in the footsteps of the company’s Griffith facility which reduced its carbon footprint while simultaneously transforming what was once considered waste into…
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…
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…