Community consultation for the Moah Creek Renewable Energy Project is underway, which brings a slew of secure jobs in the renewables sector that little bit closer to CQ. The solar-wind project should be up and running by 2025 Central Queensland Power – a joint venture between Renewable Energy Systems (RES) and Energy Estate – is…
The rise of cryptocurrency over the last decade has drawn concerns for the online currency’s incredible carbon footprint. In reality, bitcoin mining has taken leaps and bounds to converge with the renewable energy sector, putting in place innovative technology that will eventually decarbonise crypto and benefit renewable energy grids at unprecedented levels. The logic behind…
Advisory group Infrastructure Australia has given priority to a solar-plus-storage project that’s being developed to supply Singapore with 20% of its electricity demand. The Australia-ASEAN Power Link (AAPL) project joins a pipeline of more than 40 infrastructure projects on the priority list, worth $59 billion in total. This list features “significant” works being developed in…
Renewables developers RES and Energy Estate have revealed the first stage of what will become a huge renewable energy generation and storage hub in Central Queensland. The hub is intended to supply electricity to heavy industry in the area, including the aluminum smelter in Boyne Island. The developers said that the Moah Creek Renewable Energy…
Boston-based start-up Form Energy recently revealed its new long-duration battery which, it claims, will store energy for just 10% of the cost of more traditional lithium-ion batteries. The start-up has been developing the tech for this long-life battery for a while and in May 2020 it announced it’d be working on a battery pilot project…
There is a bewildering number of feed-in tariffs and energy plans on the market, so whether you’re about to go solar or whether you’re planning to switch provider and plan, here are the best five FITs to be had in QLD. Just before we dive in, however, it helps to know how to identify the…
The Clean Energy Council (CEC) released some concerning data last month which could suggest that large-scale renewables projects are becoming less investible. Battery storage has grown by 300% in Q1 2021 compared to Q4 of 2020, but there’s been a steep fall in large-scale renewables projects – investment has fallen to its lowest levels in…
In its latest report, business analyst IHS Markit predicts that Australia’s power storage installations will grow by more than five-fold by 2030. At present, the nation accounts for 3% of the world’s battery installations and is the world’s seventh-largest market. By 2030, according to HIS, it will be the world’s third-largest market and have 7%…