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Transgrid give approval to $1.83 billion investment in new transmission link after CEFC makes its largest ever financing commitment.

25 May 2021 The Australian Energy Market Operator has underlined the need for a rapid upgrade to the country’s grid and market systems, saying that Australia is hurtling towards 100 per cent renewables at a rate even faster than it contemplated. AEMO chief systems design office Alex Wonhas says the country’s main grid is rapidly approaching 100 per cent instantaneous renewable penetration, and it needs to build a system and market that can handle such situations now, not in a few decades. “Australia is experiencing the fastest and technically most challenging energy transition globally,...

Published: 18 May 2021, 06:22 By: Andy Colthorpe Artist rendering of the Victorian Big Battery (VBB), a 300MW / 450MWh project which will enable greater interconnection capacity with New South Wales. Image: Neoen. Over a gigawatt of battery storage has been proposed in a plan to enable the wider rollout of renewables by Powercor, owner and operator of an electricity distribution network serving more than 800,000 customers in the Australian state of Victoria. The group’s network includes over half a million electricity poles and nearly 90,000km of power lines. In the Integrated...

12 May 2021 Australia officially met its 2020 renewable energy target in late January, passing the revised target of 33,000GWh – despite long delays in several major projects. Clean Energy Regulator’s Mark Williamson said the country fell a “fraction short” of the target in 2020, when some 32,300GWh of “new renewables” was produced, and the 33,000GWh target was passed on a “rolling 12 months basis” by the end of January. “The first thing I can do, and it’s great to do this in face to face, is to officially declare that the large scale renewable energy target or 33,000 giga...

11 May 2021 It really is getting beyond a joke. It was bad enough when Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey were railing against wind farms because they – and many of the Coalition donors – didn’t like the look of them. It was pretty depressing when then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull chose to run with the conservative pack after the South Australian blackout and amplified the “when the wind don’t blow and the sun don’t shine” mantra that has convinced a generation of Coalition politicians that coal is a must-have to keep the lights on. And it might have been funny when Scott Morrison co...