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Sponsorship and exhibition opportunities at EcoGen 2012

Wed, 25 January 2012 Sponsoring and exhibiting at EcoGen 2012 will provide clean energy businesses with unparalleled access to decision makers in the Australian international clean energy industry at a time when this is more vital than ever.

Cogeneration King of the Castle

Castle Hill RSL Club’s C2K Aquatic Centre in Sydney is one of the city’s largest leisure, fitness and aquatic centres. The Castle Hill RSL Club identified the need to improve the energy efficiency of the aquatic centre in order to reduce current and projected energy costs and reduce their carbon footprint.

Cogeneration takes off at airport redevelopment

Cogeneration is a key component of an energy efficiency overhaul at Perth Airport in Western Australia, where a new terminal will soon be complete.

Federal draft Energy White Paper released

Mon, 19 December 2011 The Federal Government recently released a draft Energy White Paper for public consultation, which sets out a series of proposed Government priorities to address challenges confronting Australia’s energy sector.

Information and inspiration with EcoGeneration

Tue, 11 October 2011 For up-to-date clean energy news as well as in-depth analysis, subscribe to EcoGeneration magazine.

7 EcoGeneration must-reads!

Available on the EcoGeneration website, a wealth of solar energy insight is waiting! Read on for a selection of the most-read articles from our recent editions.

5 minutes with…Simon Helps, National Sales Manager, MWM Energy Australia

Joining MWM in early 2007, Simon Helps has brought a focus on the development of cogeneration and trigeneration applications in the built environment, establishing new paths to market for MWM’s range of gas and diesel engines.

Gas snap shot

EcoGeneration brings you details of some gas power stations that have recently come online.

Reminder: Melbourne networking event, 7 April

Wed, 6 April 2011 Be sure to make an appearance at the Melbourne EcoGen 2011 networking session on 7 April.

EcoGen 2011 welcomes City of Sydney’s Allan Jones

Wed, 6 April 2011 EcoGen 2011 is pleased to announce that Allan Jones, Development Officer Energy and Climate Change at the City of Sydney, will be speaking on achieving emissions reductions in the metropolis at the EcoGen 2011 clean energy conference, to be held from 4–7 September 2011 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Qenos and AGL to install cogeneration plant in Melbourne

Tue, 15 March 2011 Manufacturing company Qenos and AGL Energy have announced plans to construct a cogeneration facility at Qenos’ Altona plant in Victoria.

First Aussie PureCycle sale for PHP

Fri, 21 January 2011 Greenearth Energy has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Pacific Heat and Power has successfully sold its first waste heat recovery PureCycle® power system in Australia to Gympie Timber Company.

Trigeneration for new Global Switch centre

Mon, 10 January 2011 Global Switch, a data centre provider in Europe and Asia Pacific, is to build a $300 million data centre in Sydney with an onsite trigeneration system.

Trigeneration at The Ark

A 770 kilowatt trigeneration plant has helped North Sydney’s The Ark office building achieve a Greenstar energy rating of 6 stars.

Celebrating clean energy

Tue, 21 September 2010 AGL’s Bogong Hydro Power Project was named Most Outstanding Clean Energy Project at the EcoGen 2010 Clean Energy Awards, announced in Sydney at the EcoGen 2010 Conference and Exhibition.

Enerflex flexes its cogeneration capabilities

Tue, 27 July 2010 Enerflex has been a specialist in the area of cogeneration (combined heat and power) for over 40 years. The company’s cogeneration plants are used in greenhouse, industrial and utility applications.

Sydney revamps renewable energy strategy

Thu, 10 June 2010 A proposal by the City of Sydney to fund their own renewable energy projects instead of purchasing GreenPower carbon offsets has been approved in a recent Council meeting.

Sydney seeks trigeneration power

Tue, 11 May 2010 The City Of Sydney plans to meet 70 per cent of the city's energy needs using power from multiple trigeneration plants by 2030.

RET discussion paper released

Mon, 29 March 2010 A discussion paper on the proposed changes to the Renewable Energy Target has been released by the Federal Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water Senator Penny Wong.

Gympie fluidised bed boiler

Renewable biomass and cold-start butane, QLD

EcoGen 2010 – six months to go and counting!

With just six months to go until the clean energy industry comes together for the Australian clean energy industry event of the year, the excitement continues to build. EcoGeneration brings you the latest EcoGen 2010 developments.

Old brewery site gears up for trigen

Fri, 12 February 2010 Frasers Property Australia has received approval from the New South Wales Department of Planning to continue with the first phase of its old Carlton United Brewery site project.

Sweet news for Mackay Sugar Cogeneration Project

Wed, 10 February 2010 Mackay Sugar has issued contracts for the construction of a $120 million cogeneration power plant at its Racecourse Mill in Queensland.

Abu Dhabi’s global energy summit kicks off

Mon, 18 January 2010 The World Future Energy Summit, which kicked off at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre this week, has gained the support of some of the world’s leading businesses.

Brisbane’s 2026 target on track with cogeneration engineering

Australia’s first operational, large scale, gas-powered, cogeneration plant in a commercial office building has earned Floth Sustainable Building Consultants a Gold Award at the 2009 Association of Consulting Engineers Australia Awards for Excellence – and is bringing Brisbane closer to its target of halving emissions by 2026.