Other Renewables

Victorian town plans "smart energy precinct" to halve industry power costs

Local business and community in coastal town of Port Fairy begin work on developing multi-million dollar, renewables-based smart energy precinct.

August 1, 2018

UK coal freight giant signs deal to source 100% renewable electricity

While DB Cargo UK freights coal and petroleum, a new deal will see all its rail sites and offices powered…

July 19, 2018

Apple launches new $300m clean energy fund in China

Apple creates “first-of-its-kind” investment fund, tapping greater purchasing power to expand the clean energy options available to its smaller Chinese…

July 18, 2018

Monash University signs off-take deal with Victorian wind farm

Monash commits to wind offtake deal that brings the university into powerful consortium of corporate buyers, and closer to target…

July 5, 2018

The sneaky war against renewables in the bush

If you live in a remote area of Victoria the government will subsidise your off-grid fuel needs ... and not…

June 29, 2018

Packaging giant taps "baseload green power" in Victoria wind PPA

ASX-listed packaging giant Orora will soon source 80% of its power from renewables, after signing second renewable PPA in a…

June 19, 2018

"IceGrid" proposes stored wind power for remote Canada provinces

Proposal to replace diesel plants with grid-connected, wind powered, battery energy storage microgrids throughout the northwestern Canadian provinces wins CanInfra…

June 13, 2018

Birdsville bids farewell to geothermal, opts for solar and battery storage instead

Plans to replace Australia’s only utility-owned geothermal power station in remote Queensland town of Birdsville dumped in favour of distributed…

June 7, 2018

Unilever to run all Australian factories on 100% renewables by 2020

Global consumer goods manufacturer Unilever says it has "started its journey" in Australia to sourcing all grid purchased electricity from…

June 7, 2018

Making the case for 10-year renewable electricity tariffs

For a fair, efficient, low-cost pathway to 100% renewables, we need to put front-of-meter renewables on a level footing with…

June 6, 2018