western australia Archives - Renew Economy

Policy & Planning

One Nation senator who hates renewables, backs nuclear, owns shares in solar-battery company
A One Nation senator who campaigns against renewable energy, and for nuclear power, has been found to own shares in a solar and battery company.
Rachel Williamson

Mar 9, 2026

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Policy & Planning

State proposes go-betweens to lead negotiations on community benefits from renewables
New guidelines create a state-funded go-between who will negotiate with developers and help communities decide on their preferred plans for funds from renewables.
Rachel Williamson

Mar 5, 2026

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Renewables

State-backed wind farm gets federal green light, with long list of conditions
A small wind farm that has been a flash-point for local environmental concerns has been waved through the federal EPBC queue, but with a raft of conditions.
Rachel Williamson

Mar 5, 2026

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Renewables

“Transformational:” Offtake interest spurs progress on huge Nullarbor renewables hub
A mammoth proposed 70 GW wind, solar and hydrogen hub has enough “offtake interest” in green ammonia to justify bringing first stage online by 2033.
Rachel Williamson

Mar 2, 2026

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Renewables

Fortescue’s electrification spend hits $1 billion-a-year “run rate,” as diesel savings start to flow
Fortescue says its electrification spend should hit a “run rate” of about $1bn a year to the end of the decade. And it is already banking savings from swapping out diesel.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 25, 2026

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Storage

Local developer pitches gigawatt-hour big battery to help Perth quit coal
A WA developer is pitching a new $500 million battery along the backbone network between former coal hub Collie and the demand centre in Perth.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 24, 2026

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Renewables

“Tracker, panel, rinse, repeat:” How Fortescue is driving solar innovation in the Pilbara
Solar is cheap and easy to build for Fortescue, and working in the Pilbara gives the company more leeway to try some things not allowed elsewhere in Australia.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 18, 2026

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Renewables

“We don’t doubt ourselves:” Fortescue’s race to real zero – and the radical rethink behind it
Iron ore giant Fortescue has just four years left to meet its real zero emissions by 2030 target, a mammoth task that will require it to fundamentally change how it operates. So can it be done?
Rachel Williamson

Feb 16, 2026

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Battery

“Copy and paste:” Fortescue says installing big batteries are the easy part of its plans to reach real zero
Installing the North Star battery was simpler and cheaper and than most other projects in the mining company’s job list to reach real zero by 2030.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 13, 2026

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Electric Vehicles

Fortescue launches its first electric locomotives – with batteries the size of more than 200 Tesla EVs
Fortescue has launched the first of its massive battery trains, which it says the hardest part of its goal to eliminate fossil fuels by 2030.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 13, 2026

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Renewables

First four turbines erected on expansion project that will deliver state’s biggest wind farm
The first four of 30 new turbines at the Warradarge wind farm have been erected, with the rest due to be up by August.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 5, 2026

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Renewables

Fertiliser giant firms up first leg of Indigenous-backed, 1.2 GW green energy hub
A 50MW solar project will be the first in a 5GW vision by the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 5, 2026

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