Oil and gas explorer Pilot Energy announced today (9 October) that it received a non-binding offer from renewable energy developer EDP Renewables APAC to take full ownership of the 376MW Three Springs solar PV power plant in Western Australia.
On Friday (4 October), the US and Australia emphasised their support for developing clean solar PV supply chains, which could leverage both countries’ investments and complementary resources from their respective solar industries.
The Australian government has granted Spanish solar PV developer X-Elio the green light to develop its 350MW Sixteen Mile solar-plus-storage project in Queensland.
Australian utility Origin Energy announced its intention to withdraw from hydrogen and focus on renewable energy and energy storage, citing “uncertainty around the pace and timing of development of the hydrogen market".
The 360MW Mortlake solar-plus-storage project in Victoria, Australia, is the latest large-scale renewable energy project to be fast-tracked for development by the state government.
Renewable energy developer Frontier Energy has halted developing its 120MW solar-plus-storage project in Western Australia after it missed out on Reserve Capacity Credits (RCCs) from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO).
This is the first determination reached in the ongoing antidumping and countervailing duty (AD/CVD) investigation into imports of crystalline silicon solar cells.
The Queensland government, Australia, will review the role of the planning framework for renewable energy deployments, including solar PV and battery energy storage system (BESS) developments.
The Australian government revealed yesterday (30 September) additional funding for Queensland’s Local Renewable Energy Zones (LREZ), which will increase each zone's solar PV capacity to 16.2MW.
