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Renewables

Investment giant snaps up 1 GW solar and battery portfolio of retreating oil supermajor
Renewables dedicated offshoot of finance giant Macquarie emerges as buyer of oil giant’s gigawatt-scale portfolio of solar and storage projects around Australia.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 23, 2026

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Renewables

Giant Pilbara wind, solar and hydrogen hub dumped by bp wins $21 million government grant
Plans for an up to 26 GW wind, solar and green hydrogen hub have new life breathed into them, just six months after they were abandoned by global oil and gas major bp.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 4, 2026

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Renewables

Offshore wind plans given major project status as sector hits “critical inflection point”
Major offshore wind project wins Major Project Status, in a show of commitment from the federal government just one week after another project was snuffed out.
Sophie Vorrath

Dec 12, 2025

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Renewables

“We went too quickly:” BP defends dramatic renewable exit as Fortescue accelerates to net zero
While Fortescue charges towards real zero, the slowdown by other big iron ore miners is being blamed by BP for its decision to quit giant renewables project.
Giles Parkinson

Jul 30, 2025

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BP dumps 18 early stage hydrogen projects as it retreats to oil and gas
BP is dumping 18 hydrogen projects and pausing two biofuels refineries, as it focuses on more profitable fossil fuels.
Rachel Williamson

Nov 6, 2024

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Solar

Solar giants produce more useful energy than Big Oil, and fossil fuel spending is going to waste
The world’s biggest solar panel makers now produce vastly more useful energy than Big Oil.
Rachel Williamson

Jun 27, 2024

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Renewables

Pioneering and repriced offshore wind farm gets final approval in New York
Five years, a pandemic and a war later, the troubled 810MW Empire Wind project will begin construction after gaining final approvals from New York.
Joshua S Hill

May 24, 2024

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Hydrogen

Kwinana green hydrogen hub edges closer at site of former oil refinery
WA government says bp is a step closer to making a final investment decision on plans to turn its former oil refinery into a green hydrogen hub.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 25, 2023

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Renewables

Iron ore, oil and steel giants line up to develop $70bn of green industrial projects in Pilbara
Big names, big dollars and big green plans are coming to WA’s Pilbara region, with seven projects allocated prize industrial land by the state government.
Sophie Vorrath

Jan 12, 2023

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Policy & Planning

World headed for “costly, disorderly” transition to renewables, warns BP
Oil giant says world headed for disorderly transition to net-zero emissions, where delays to action greatly increase costs of decarbonisation.
Joshua S Hill & Sophie Vorrath

Mar 16, 2022

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Wind

Massive offshore wind project taps “world’s largest” Vestas turbines
Danish wind giant named as prefered supplier to for massive 2.1GW Empire offshore wind project, planned for development off the coast of Long Island, New York.
Joshua S Hill

Oct 19, 2021

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Solar

BP acquires 9GW solar pipeline in US in biggest green power deal
BP snaps up pipeline of 9GW of solar projects in US in transaction hailed as biggest green energy deal to date.
Joshua S Hill

Jun 2, 2021

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