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Net zero dreams float on unscaled tech

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... five years and shut down all unabated coal and almost all unabated gas in the next ten years. 290 gigawatts of wind and solar capacity should be installed by 2050, as power demand grows 2.5-fold.

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... with some of the country's largest developers, and is currently a broker to Australia's largest (unnamed) BESS, PV solar and wind portfolio, and, as the lender's insurance advisor, has advised on a number of Australia's largest renewables ...

Quinbrook closes clean energy capital raise at $3bn

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... has closed its largest-ever capital raise at $3 billion for the Net Zero Power Fund. The strategy focuses on large-scale solar, renewable fuels, power generators, and battery storage. This marks Quinbrook's third fund close in this past year and ...

UniSuper's environmental option returns -16%

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... "scam business" and has already made promises to scrap offshore wind projects if elected. Pearce also cited Chinese EV and solar panel production, noting companies in China that are selling below cost "which is not healthy" but "cannot last forever." ...

"Critical decade" for energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... strong, with a 25% increase in renewables on the grid since the Albanese government took over: "There are now more homes with solar than with swimming pools." Aging coal-fired power stations pose a risk, and more renewables will ensure grid reliability. ...

TelstraSuper pumps more into renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... TelstraSuper confirmed it is on track to meet this goal. The Quinbrook fund's investment portfolio consists of utility scale solar farms and battery projects, sustainable data centres and Quinbrook's own supernode battery project and sustainable ...

Tech giant hits environment target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... 2030. Its renewable energy methodology states it has achieved this through a mix utility-scale off-site renewables, on-site solar, and energy contracts. The firm says it is now the "largest corporate purchaser of renewable energy in the world" for the ...

HMC Capital announces new $50m investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... Transition platform which is seeking to assemble a 15GW development portfolio across the energy value chain, including wind, solar, battery, biofuels and emerging technologies. HMC said Stor-Energy provides a foundation portfolio which can be further ...

Investible, top VCs back Fugu Carbon

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... capitalist firm Counteract. Fugu Carbon co-founders Mac Thompson and Luke Marshall were instrumental in the world's largest solar project Sun Cable. They respectively served as co-founder and COO, and first employee, of the solar project, acquired ...

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... well in the year ahead. "Our focus on impact investments is evident in our material exposure to private credit loans for solar farms and battery projects over unlisted property. Global investment in clean energy is at an all-time high, set to reach US$2 ...