Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility backs 10MW solar and battery power station south of Darwin, and a neighbouring gas plant.
Northern Territory
Batteries, batteries, and more batteries: Alice Springs future grid plan gets ARENA boost
A new big battery, home battery incentives, and a battery-based VPP – all put on fast-track for Alice Springs with $2.1m funding boost from ARENA this week.
Solar farms to carry cost of Territory government’s glacial pace on grid reform
New performance standards set to be imposed on NT generators, raising costs for solar developments, after NT government delayed reforms.
NT sacks energy chiefs after report into Alice Springs system black
The two most senior energy bosses in Northern Territory sacked after report into Alice Springs “system black” identified major cultural and system problems.
Is this Australia’s first utility to acknowledge death by solar?
NT Government owned utility says it faces an ‘existential risk’ from increased solar uptake. Can a big battery save it?
Construction starts at Northern Territory’s largest solar farm
Construction commences at 25MW Katherine Solar Farm as Northern Territory begins shift towards target of 50% renewables by 2030.
Why the NT should choose 100% renewables, instead of fracked gas
The Northern Territory is at a crossroads. It can go down the dead-end street of gas fracking, or become Australia’s first renewable-driven economy.
The 10GW solar vision that could turn Northern Territory into economic powerhouse
The NT’s untapped economic potential could be realised through large-scale investment in solar energy, a new BZE report has found.
Renewables a better bet than gas for Labor’s $1.5bn transformation plan
Labor is right – there is a huge opportunity to transform the NT economy through energy development. But it’s renewables that hold the most opportunity, not gas.
Italian oil major taps Australian renewables, buys up NT “biggest” solar farm
Italian oil and gas major Eni has acquires 33MW solar farm set for construction near Katherine, in the Northern Territory – the biggest for the NT so far.
