Metis Energy Ltd, based in Singapore, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with SmartestEnergy Australia for its 111 MWp Gunsynd Solar Farm project in Queensland. The power purchase agreement (PPA) between Metis’ Progressive Developments Goondiwindi Pty Ltd
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ACEN Australia (of the Ayala Group) and Marubeni Asian Power Singapore signed a cooperation agreement for the joint development of a 200 MW/400 MWh (2-hour) battery energy storage system (BESS) in New South Wales, Australia. The signing ceremony for the agreement took place at the Philippine Business Forum held in Melbourne, Australia
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Origin Energy has acquired Australian renewable energy provider Walcha Energy in New South Wales, for an unknown sum. Walcha Energy has been working on the Ruby Hills wind and Salisbury solar projects, which have a combined capacity of 1.3 GW. The two projects are located close to Origin’s recently acquired Warrane land.
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Equinix, a digital infrastructure company, has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with TagEnergy for 151 MW of clean energy from the 1.33 GW Golden Plains wind farm in Australia. The PPA will help Equinix achieve its goal of running its business entirely on renewable energy. The wind farm’s 17 International Business Exchange (IBX) data centres in Australia.
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Enel Green Power Australia, a subsidiary of Italian energy company Enel, has agreed to acquire QEM’s 1 GW Julia Creek renewables project in Australia. In north-west Queensland, the project is situated next to QEM’s flagship Julia Creek oil shale and vanadium project. It will use a combination of solar and wind energy to produce 1 GW of power
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BlueFloat Energy and Origin Energy have announced a partnership and applied for a Feasibility Licence to develop the Eastern Rise Offshore Wind Project in the declared Hunter offshore wind zone, Australia. The proposed project is located off the Hunter-Port Stephens coast and has the capacity to generate 1.725 GW of renewable electricity.
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) on behalf of Murchison Hydrogen Renewables Pty Ltd has selected thyssenkrupp Uhde, in partnership with DL E&C and its affiliate CARBONCO to provide a pre-FEED to assist the development of the giga-watt-scale Murchison green ammonia project in Kalbarri, Western Australia. The initiative will produce green hydrogen and green ammonia using onshore wind and solar energy.
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DP Energy has obtained permission for development of its 430 MW Callide wind farm from the Australian state of Queensland’s Assessment Referral Agency. The wind farm is situated in the Calliope range, approximately 75 km from Gladstone and 22 km from Biloela and it has 70 turbines, each having a capacity of 5 to 6 MW. Every turbine has a 250 metre tip height.
Read MoreThe South Australian government has picked the potential winners in a tender that will allow the development of a 250 MW electrolyser and hydrogen storage plant in a $374 million hub near Whyalla. Reportedly, the Australian state government declared a consortium of international gas and engineering massive corporations – Atco Australia and BOC.
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Edify Energy, an Australian solar and battery storage developer, has received federal approval for its over 600 MW Smoky Creek solar project in central Queensland, Australia. Reportedly, the Commonwealth government has given the project the go-ahead following a review under Australian environmental legislation.
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Macquarie Asset Management has revealed its partnership with Perth-based Green Wind Renewables Pty Ltd (GRW) to collaboratively build up to 2.4 GW portfolio of onshore wind projects in Western Australia. The companies will collaborate on the projects as a joint venture, which might eventually grow to include more projects. Moreover, the partners have already negotiated land contracts for the projects and will now begin resource monitoring work.
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Worley Ltd, an Australian engineering company, has been awarded to provide front-end engineering design (FEED) services for Queensland’s largest renewable hydrogen project that is being realised by a consortium led by Stanwell Corp. Worley was previously involved in the project as a technical advisor during the preliminary feasibility study.
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RWE and Stanwell have teamed up to construct two onshore wind farms with a total capacity of 1.8 GW in Queensland Australia. Stanwell will look into energy offtakes and probable equity investment in RWE’s 1.1 GW Theodore wind farm which is under construction near the town of Biloela. A second wind project with 720 MW of capacity is at an initial stage of construction in the southern part of the state.
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BP has completed the concept development phase study of a green hydrogen project in Kwinana, Western Australia, and it has identified two viable base-case scenarios for production. The H2Kwinana energy centre will be able to deliver green hydrogen for both the domestic market and exports. The completion of the feasibility study was announced by the Western Australian government.
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Snowy Hydro Limited, an Australia-based power producer and retailer, has signed a power purchase agreement with TagEnergy, an energy storage developer, for a 756 MW wind farm project located in Victoria. The agreement is the first PPA for the project of Golden Plains’ 1.3 GW wind farm. The project is intended to establish the Commonwealth’s largest wind turbine complex.
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The Northern Territory (NT) government has inked a two-year MoU with Larrakia Energy (a joint venture initiative between Larrakia Development Corporation and Perth-based resource and renewables company Progressive Green Solutions), and Korea Midland Power (Komipo) to set up a large-scale 300 MW solar power project on Darwin harbour near the Middle Arm precinct in Australia.
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During the 14th clean energy ministerial and 8th mission innovation meeting in Goa, India, the UK and Australian governments have announced a joint initiative for green hydrogen projects. The two countries will provide funding to Australian and British companies to collaborate on research, development, or demonstration initiatives involving green hydrogen.
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Brookfield Asset Management (BAM) has signed a MoU with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to explore opportunities for renewable energy and decarbonisation equipment production in Australia. The MoU seeks to reduce the risk and accelerate the country’s energy transformation by enabling the country to locally manufacture clean energy technology, such as PV modules, long-term battery storage, and wind energy components.
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Inpex, a Japanese oil and gas exploration and production company, has agreed to acquire a 50 per cent stake in the Australian operations of Italian utility Enel. Inpex will purchase a stake in Enel Green Power Australia and Enel Green Power Australia Trust (collectively EGPA) as part of the acquisition. These two businesses are wholly owned by Enel Green Power, a division of Enel. With debt of about €140 million, the acquisition values EGPA at about €400 million.
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Ocean Winds, a 50-50 joint venture (JV) between Spanish renewables firm EDP and French energy giant Engie, has submitted an application to build offshore wind projects off the coast of Victoria, Australia. Ocean Winds, through its bidding company High Sea Wind, submitted three applications in Victoria’s Gippsland region for wind projects totaling about 4 GW of renewable energy capacity.
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