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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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Policy & Planning

Massive 2 GW wind, solar and battery project lands all state planning approvals in breathtaking four months
The wind, solar and battery project secured state and EPA approvals in an astonishing four months.
Rachel Williamson

Jan 12, 2026

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Battery

BYD parts arrive on site at North Star Junction as Fortescue adds new battery to real zero plans
“We are changing the way we power our mines.” Fortescue marks arrival of battery units at North Star site and reveals plans for another big battery in push for real zero.
Rachel Williamson

Dec 1, 2025

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Battery

Council waves through giant wind project with biggest eight hour battery, as long as it fixes TV reception
The 500 MW wind project is in a prime wind zone in WA and comes with a massive eight hour battery, the biggest to be approved yet.
Rachel Williamson

Nov 13, 2025

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Storage

Alinta wins court battle forcing contractors to hand over key battery project parts
Alinta has won a court battle to get a $182 million big battery project moving again, after contractors were forced to deliver key parts.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 28, 2025

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