European Energy has inked PPA with Amazon Australia to supply renewable electricity from solar parks in Australia. The agreement covers the Mokoan Solar Park and Winton North Solar Park in Victoria, as well as the Bullyard Solar Park in Queensland. The Mokoan Solar Park is already operational, while the Winton North Solar Park and Bullyard Solar Park are in the pre-construction procurement phase.
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ACEN Australia has concluded AUD 750 million portfolio debt financing for its operating renewable assets, along with financing for its new projects in Australia. This transaction will aid the financing of the company’s near-complete 400 MW Stubbo solar project in NSW. Furthermore, this transaction was supported by a group of 11 Australian and international lenders. Morgan Stanley and Macquarie Capital acted as joint financial advisors for the transaction.
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) through its CI Energy Transition Fund I (ETF I) has secured AUD 814 million for the Murchison green hydrogen project in Western Australia. This financing has been secured through the Australian Government’s Hydrogen Headstart program. This green hydrogen project will produce approximately 1.8 million tonnes of green ammonia annually. It is located 20 km north of Kalbarri in the mid-west region .
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Akaysha Energy has inked a long-term offtake agreement with Gunvor Group for its large-scale battery energy storage system (BESS) project. The agreement includes a risk-hedging offtake product known as a battery revenue swap agreement which will ensure revenue certainty for the project. The project is currently under construction and is expected to begin operations by 2026. It will be able to charge from excess solar generation and store enough energy to power approximately 200,000 homes for up to two hours.
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Pacific Green has inked binding documents to sell 100 per cent of its shares in the Limestone Coast North Energy Park to Intera Renewables. This transaction is valued at $ 293 million. The Limestone Coast North Energy Park is a 250 MW/ 500 MWh battery energy storage system (BESS) project located at the Limestone Coast region of South Australia. Furthermore, as part of this transaction, Pacific Green will be retained to manage the project’s construction until it reaches commercial operations.
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WestWind Energy has inked a lease agreement with the New South Wales government for the construction of Lake Victoria wind farm. The project will be built over a period of 2-3 years from 2029-2032. The project will have an installed capacity of approximately 1 GW and an annual energy production of approximately 3400 GWh. It also has an estimated capital expenditure of $3.8 billion. The project will also incorporate up to three battery energy storage systems with a total storage capacity of 1500 MWh.
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), through its Copenhagen Infrastructure V (CI V) fund, has commenced construction of the 240 MW/960 MWh Summerfield battery in Australia. This decision follows the financial investment decision made in September 2024. The project is situated in South Australia near existing transmission infrastructure. Furthermore, Summerfield has entered into a 10-year offtake agreement with Origin Energy.
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Neoen has secured AUD 1.4 billion in debt financing for 1.3 GW of wind, solar, and storage assets. This has effectively doubled its Australian renewable energy portfolio financing. A group of 11 major Australian and international lenders participated in the transaction. The operating assets being added to the portfolio include three solar farms in New South Wales: Griffith Solar Farm, Parkes Solar Farm, and Dubbo Solar Hub.
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Australia’s transition to a net zero economy is necessary, inevitable and urgent. Among developed countries, Australia is one of the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. The impacts of nearly 1.5 degrees of warming can already be seen in trends of declining rainfall in the south-east and south-west, an increase in extreme fire weather and longer fire seasons, higher sea surface temperatures, rising sea levels and increasing ocean acidification.
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The Pilbara region in Western Australia underpins Australia’s economic strength. It is the powerhouse of Australia’s resources export industry, the global leader in the production and export of iron ore – Australia’s #1 export commodity – and has worldscale reserves of critical minerals including lithium, strategic metals and energy transition materials. Currently, to power their mobile equipment operations in the Pilbara, the mining majors burn a massive 2.4bn litres pa of heavily subsidised, imported diesel – a high emissions fossil fuel – and rely on fossil gas for stationary energy.
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BrightNight has secured approval from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to connect its 360 MW Mortlake Energy Hub to the National Electricity Market. The Energy Hub is BrightNight’s first hybrid renewable energy project and the largest in Victoria, Australia, includes a 360 MW solar generation capacity and a 300 MW battery energy storage system (BESS).
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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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