australia

The Australian government of New South Wales (NSW) has launched an A$275 million (US$178.7 million) initiative aimed at renewables manufacturing.

French independent power producer (IPP) Neoen has completed debt financing for a 1.5GW portfolio of solar, wind and battery energy storage assets in Australia.

Australian utility Origin Energy has acquired renewables developer Walcha Energy and its 1.3GW project pipeline of solar and wind assets.

Renewable energy IPP Vena Energy began operations at a 125MW PV site in the Australian state of Queensland last week.

The Mannum project sits at the confluence of decarbonisation, Trina Solar's Australian expansion and the government's energy transition plans.

ARENA’s Silicon To Solar study seeks to outline a “credible pathway” for Australia to establish 10GW of polysilicon (poly-si) purification capacity and 5GW of ingot, wafer, cell and module production capacity from 2030.

Portuguese utility EDP, through its subsidiary EDP Renewables (EDPR), has acquired Australian solar developer ITP Development.

Rio Tinto has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with European Energy to buy all of the power at the latter’s Upper Calliope solar farm.

Enel Green Power Australia, the Australia-based renewables arm of Italian energy company Enel, has signed a binding agreement with minerals company QEM to purchase a 1GW solar and wind project.

Despite having the ideal attributes to become a clean energy superpower, Australia has never quite lived up to its potential. Will Norman assesses the barriers and asks whether recent investment announcements could turn the tide.