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KUTh adds Saipan to portfolio

Wed, 1 February 2012 KUTh Energy Ltd, an Australian geothermal energy company, has announced that Saipan, a United States territory of the Northern Marianas, has issued the company a Notice of Intent to Award a contract for the development of geothermal electricity for the Saipan grid.

QLD community solar making milestones

Tue, 31 January 2012 The installation of nearly 1,600 solar panels at the $2.7 million Fraser Coast Community Solar Farm in Hervey Bay, Queensland, has commenced.

Mt Gellibrand Wind Farm receives final approval

Fri, 27 January 2012 Wind farm developer, ACCIONA Energy, has recently announced the Mt Gellibrand Wind Farm in south west Victoria has received final approval from the Victorian government.

Meridian rethinks Project Hayes wind farm

Wed, 25 January 2012 New Zealand energy retailer, Meridian, has withdrawn its applications for resource consents for Project Hayes, a 633 MW wind farm the retailer had proposed for the Lammermoor Range in Central Otago, New Zealand.

Storage and demand technology study underway

Tue, 24 January 2012 A Queensland University of Technology research project aimed at developing renewable energy storage and demand management technology is underway.

Solar reaches for the sky

Atop the Ullrich Aluminium manufacturing facility in Hume, located 15 km south of Canberra, Energy Matters has installed Australia’s first solar system under a roof-leasing scheme.

Financing the clean energy future

Julian Turecek, Honorary Fellow in Carbon Finance at Macquarie University’s Applied Finance Centre, explains how fresh policy settings designed to encourage investment in clean energy could lead to a new era in funding for projects and technologies.

Greenearth to plant new power projec

Greenearth Energy has signed a funding agreement with the Victorian Government for the company's proposed 140 megawatt Geelong Geothermal Power Project.

New World Energy takes on new ventures

John Libby, Managing Director of New World Energy Limited, discusses the company’s geothermal interests in Western Australia and the Philippines, and expounds on the company’s plans for the future.

Boeing and CSIRO to design aviation biofuel feedstock

Tue, 17 January 2012 Aircraft manufacturer, Boeing, in conjunction with CSIRO, will undertake a study to evaluate the potential for growing feedstocks in northern Australia and converting them into aviation biofuels.

Construction starts on Mildura solar power station

Fri, 13 January 2012 Solar Systems, a subsidiary of Silex Systems, has announced the commencement of Stage 1 construction work on what will be Australia’s largest solar power station, located in Mildura, north west Victoria.

Carnegie Wave Energy completes project design

Thu, 12 January 2012 Wave energy developer Carnegie Wave Energy Limited has announced completion of a design for its Perth Wave Energy Project, located at Garden Island in Western Australia.

Gemasolar power plant sparkles in Spain

Torresol Energy, a joint venture between Masdar – an Abu Dhabi-based future energy and clean technology company, and SENER Engineering and Systems – a Spanish engineering and construction company – have recently commissioned the Gemasolar concentrated solar power plant, located in Fuentes de Andalucía in Spain.

Work starts on Kogan Creek Solar Boost Project

Wed, 11 January 2012 Civil works have commenced at CS Energy’s $104.7 million Kogan Creek Solar Boost Project, with FK Gardner and Sons Group selected as the civil contractor for the project.

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.

(Re)manufacturing efficiency

A study recently conducted by the Curtin University of Technology through its Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production, in collaboration with compressor manufacturing company Recom Engineering, found that remanufacturing refrigeration and air conditioning compressors produced fewer emissions than manufacturing new ones.

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.

Biofuels plant opens in Somersby

Thu, 22 December 2011 Licella, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ignite Energy, has recently opened a commercial biofuels demonstration facility at Somersby, New South Wales.

Solar cools Echuca

Victoria’s first solar thermal-assisted cooling project has recently been launched at the Echuca Regional Health Facility.

Chilling with solar in the desert

As desert temperatures soar in the Middle East, Masdar City stays cool with one of the world’s largest solar thermal-driven cooling systems.

Benefiting from small-scale renewables

In a presentation that took place at the Renewable Energy World Asia Conference 2011 earlier this year, Maaike Gobel, Manager of the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership, discussed the organisation’s small-scale clean energy initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.