Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released new statistics that show an increase in full-time renewable energy sector jobs of approximately 33 percent in 2016-17 from the previous year. At almost 15,000 jobs, large-scale solar energy installations, rooftop solar and wind farms were the biggest contributors to this jump in
The planning approval has been obtained for a 20MW solar farm that will power a data center and crypto-currency mining in the coal-mining center of Collie in Western Australia. A company owned by local energy entrepreneur Ben Tan, Hadouken Pty Ltd., was the one who made the application. Tan has
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced an Aussie-first trial of a solar-powered water producing device that extracts drinking water from the air. Coming from US-based company Zero Mass Water, the portable SOURCE hydropanel system sucks in moisture from the atmosphere using solar power, along with purifying and adding minerals to
Clean energy entrepreneur claimed that Australia could be the first continent running on 100 percent clean energy. Yosef Abramowitz, known as ‘Captain Sunshine’, also said that Australia’s entrenched fossil fuel industry is blocking the nation’s renewable potential. As the CEO of Israeli-American clean energy company Energiya Global, Abramowitz is ranked
Australian mining companies are harnessing the power of solar energy for use at mining sites across the country. The use of solar power in the mining industry is a growing trend, with the benefits of reliability and efficiency hard to overlook. Earlier this year, China turned on the world’s biggest floating
A review by Energy and Mines claims that using solar power can offset the energy costs of mining. “Some mines in Australia operate in incredibly remote locations, and the cost of electricity is upwards of $300/MWh,” Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) CEO Ivor Frischknecht said. Most noteworthy is that energy
Diesel generators as a temporary power supply for military operations, disaster relief efforts and music festivals could soon be replaced by mobile solar PVs. An Australian-made innovation, CROSS is a factory assembled, relocatable solar array that has been developed to reduce the logistics challenges associated with deploying solar PV generators.
A Melbourne hotel complex has become the Clean Energy Finance Corporation’s first solar investment in the hotel sector. The Southbank Holiday Inn Express is due for completion at the end of 2019 and CEFC is investing $39 million to install a solar power system plus energy-efficiency and clean energy technologies.
Global energy giant Acciona Energy has been chosen to convert 1,250 hectares of underutilized state-owned land at Aldoga into a solar energy project. The project is expected to produce hundreds of jobs and deliver long-term benefits to the community. Cameron Dick, Minister for State Development, Manufacturing, Infrastructure, and Planning, said
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) reportedly committed $2.1 million in support of the commercialisation of a 1-megawatt relocatable solar farm that is being developed by SunSHIFT. But the government funding isn’t a donation – the Australian Financial Review says the funding will be repaid with royalties from future profits, assuming SunSHIFT becomes
