ARENA

Governments

Renewables agency forced to spend $100m on consultant and labour hire after staff cuts
Years of Coalition public service staff cuts have led to a $100m consultant and labour hire bill for ARENA, paid for using its renewable energy grant funds.
Michael Mazengarb

Mar 31, 2022

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Governments

Senate again blocks Angus Taylor’s bid to redirect ARENA funds to CCS projects
The senate delivers a pre-election blow to Angus Taylor, cancelling out controversial ARENA regulations for a second time.
Michael Mazengarb

Mar 28, 2022

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Broken Hill to get big battery to provide system strength at edge of grid
ARENA backs AGL’s Broken Hill battery to include advanced inverters and provide system strength at the edge of the grid.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 25, 2022

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Governments

Brisbane firm to trial new tech to manage grid voltages and boost solar penetration
Brisbane based eleXsys to trial new voltage regulating technology, that could solve problems caused by high solar penetration, through ARENA backed trial.
Michael Mazengarb

Feb 3, 2022

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Institutions

Australian researchers beat their own record for next-gen solar cell efficiency
Researchers at the Australian National University have set a new world record conversion efficiency for next generation perovskite solar cells.
Michael Mazengarb

Feb 1, 2022

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Policy & Planning

How solving solar’s aluminium problem is key to keeping its climate credentials
Australian researchers say efforts to cut embodied emissions of aluminium would boost the climate benefits of solar power.
Michael Mazengarb

Jan 21, 2022

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Solar

5B targets solar farm building robots in $33m push to ultra low cost PV
Australian solar innovator launches $33.4m ARENA-backed program to leverage automation – including solar farm building robots – to make it faster and cheaper to develop large-scale projects.
Sophie Vorrath

Jan 18, 2022

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ARENA

New ARENA funding round to help plug one of last gaps to 100 pct renewables grid
A new $100 million funding round will support the rollout of grid forming battery inverters that could fill one of the last technical gaps to 100 pct renewables.
Giles Parkinson

Nov 23, 2021

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Governments

Newcastle may get 40MW green hydrogen electrolyser in Macquarie-backed study
ARENA pitches in funding for a 40MW renewable hydrogen electrolyser project that will help push Newcastle towards a green industry future.
Joshua S Hill

Nov 8, 2021

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Hydrogen

CEFC’s first big hydrogen play to fund zero emissions trucks for zinc refinery
CEFC to fund five purpose-built, fuel cell electric trucks and the hydrogen production and refuelling kits in first major hydrogen play.
Sophie Vorrath

Nov 8, 2021

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