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Policy & Planning

Bowen backs NT renewables drive with $250 million for batteries, solar and grid upgrades
Federal Labor tips $250 million into upgrading and expanding the electricity grid in the Northern Territory, as it races to get to 50 per cent renewables.
Sophie Vorrath

Jul 25, 2024

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Policy & Planning

Solar, electrification and a big battery: Report says Top End can thrive without gas
Independent modelling proposes an economy run on sunshine that could recharge the Northern Territory and avoid environmental harm from taxpayer-subsidised gas.
Marion Rae

Feb 27, 2024

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Renewables

How a Melbourne company helped break the Top End’s solar farm stalemate
Energy intelligence company Proa has revealed the key role its proprietary technology played in powering up two long delayed solar farms in Darwin.
Sophie Vorrath

Feb 12, 2024

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Renewables

FFI taps former chief NT minister to lead green charge in Top End
Micael Gunner will lead FFI’s new Darwin-based team, but will bring a legacy of support for “atrocious” polluting gas projects.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 10, 2022

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Renewables

Works begin on Darwin big battery, in first step to rid gas from NT grid
Works begin on 35MW grid-forming battery that will bolster the Northern Territory’s main grid as it shifts from gas to solar.
Sophie Vorrath

Aug 29, 2022

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Renewables

“It will be built:” NT legislates to help deliver world’s biggest solar and battery project
Northern Territory government further backs Sun Cable’s massive $30 billion renewables export project with passage of new Solar Project Bill.
Sophie Vorrath

Mar 29, 2022

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Renewables

Majority Indigenous-owned renewables developer launches in NT
New renewable energy developer launches in Northern Territory as one of the world’s largest majority Indigenous-owned companies of its kind.
Joshua S Hill

Feb 18, 2022

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Policy & Planning

Renewables key to making electricity supplies affordable in remote communities
ANU researchers say many households in remote communities experience frequent power disconnections and solar could be part of the answer.
Michael Mazengarb

Jan 25, 2022

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Massive $15bn Desert Bloom green hydrogen project gets planning fast track
An ambitious $15 billion plan to produce renewable hydrogen in central Australia to be fast tracked after receiving “major project” status.
Michael Mazengarb

Dec 13, 2021

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Policy & Planning

‘Gas led recovery’ could leave NT taxpayers with a $22 billion offset bill, Reputex finds
The Morrison government’s push for more fracking in the Beetaloo Basin could leave the NT government with a staggering $22 billion carbon offset bill.
Michael Mazengarb

Oct 11, 2021

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