The Queensland government is investing in a new gas-to-electricity power project that will reduce mining emissions by more than one million tonnes of carbon dioxide. The project will expand the Kestrel Coal Resources underground mine’s drainage system to capture more fugitive gas, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere. The coal mine waste gas-to-electricity…
The federal government has been deluged with massive offers to build solar projects in the first round of its Capacity Investment Scheme with six new big battery projects getting the green light. Two big batteries will be built in South Australia and two in Victoria with the largest in the former coal power stronghold of…
Rio Tinto’s Boyne Island smelter in Queensland will operate into the 2040s following a partnership with the state government that will see the smelter supplied with renewable energy by the state’s government owned generators. The agreement safeguards 1,000 jobs and ensure the continuing manufacture of carbon anodes, aluminium production, and casting of 295,000 tonnes of…
The federal government has awarded major projects status to Western Australian renewables and critical minerals projects the Murchison Green Hydrogen project, NiWest Nickel Cobalt project and Australian Renewable Energy Hub. Together the projects judged of national significance accelerate net zero goals and support industry’s transition to green energy exports. The Murchison Green Hydrogen project near…
Melbourne-based ElectraLith Pty Ltd has announced that its next-generation DLE-RTM technology has successfully produced battery grade lithium hydroxide from very concentrated brines known as Salar brines, geothermal oilfield brines and spodumene (lithium ore) leach. The technology, Backed by Rio Tinto, IP Group and Monash University, included production of 99.9 percent pure lithium hydroxide from a…
By Peter Roberts Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen has topped off a national tour of green energy projects across the country with the inauguration of a community battery in Bondi, New South Wales. Flanked by CEOs Marc England of Ausgrid, Frank Calabria of Origin and Mark Collett of Energy Australia he revealed that…
There is still a future in the Fortescue group for green energy with the company spruiking its hydrogen and electrolyser interests less than a week after the company appeared to backpeddle on the technologies. A week ago Fortescue reorganised its businesses, retaining a CEO for its energy and metals businesses, but combing management teams across…
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen has put forward what he called the government’s ‘sensible (and) pragmatic’ approach to tne future of gas in Australia’s electricity grid. Answering questions at the National Press Club, Bowen said that on the one extreme there was the Coalition with what he called ‘a gas bin…
SunCable’s flagship AAPowerLink project to take Australian renewable electricity to Singapore via a high voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system has received major environmental approval. The approval allows the company to progress the development, commercial, and engineering activities required to advance the project to Final Investment Decision. SunCable has obtained its principal environmental approval from…
South Australia is set to be 100 percent net renewable power by 2027 – a remarkable world first based only on solar PV and wind. Giles Parkinson explains the milestone’s importance. When the federal and state governments were deciding on a location to announce a funding deal that will underwrite South Australia’s final leap to…