Tag: energy

Forrest buys $3b renewables farm, FFI hydrogen hub gets underway

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
As the ground broke on the world’s largest electrolyser production facility, Fortescue Future Industries chairman Andrew Forrest announced Tattarang’s $3 billion acquisition of the largest renewables farm in the...

NT’s $50 billion Indigenous renewable energy partnership

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
The Australian subsidiary of UK-based Octopus Group has sealed a partnership with the Northern Territory Indigenous Business Network (NTIBN) to deliver an estimated $50 billion of investment into renewable...

CDR to hit energy sector in October next year

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australia’s data portability scheme will be applied to the energy sector within a year under the latest government rule changes, announced Friday. From October 2022, energy providers will be...

Former ASIO boss warns on energy sector cyber

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Energy experts and a former ASIO chief have warned that Australia’s critical energy infrastructure was growing in complexity and vulnerability to cyber-attacks, but a commensurate uplift in resilience has...

Local lessons from USA’s ARPA-E

Posted on   |  by Don Scott-Kemmis
Australia has developed a reasonably strong research system but a weak innovation system – and as there has not been a good diagnosis of the problem, much innovation policy does...

Labor unveils EV policy

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Labor has unveiled “Australia’s first” national electric vehicles policy package, just days after the federal government confirmed its own strategy won’t be released for another year. The policies include...

No govt EV strategy before mid-2020

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The federal government not releasing its electric vehicles strategy until mid-2020 is “woefully inadequate and downright irresponsible”, independent senator Tim Storer said. Prime Minister Scott Morrison committed to developing...