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Clean tech bags big bucks

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... funding from Woodside, taking total funding from Woodside to $2.75 million. The new funding will go towards its ongoing commercial development SiBox, a heat storage battery that uses silicon bricks. The unit harnesses silicon's extremely high latent ...

BlackRock backs world's largest direct air capture plant

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
The world's largest asset manager will invest $550 million to build a direct air capture (DAC) facility in Texas which the energy company developer says will be the world's largest. New York Stock Exchange-listed Occidental Petroleum Corporation says ...

"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... staff with specialist sustainability skills alongside traditional finance experience. ESG is becoming embedded into commercial decision-making, but a "looming" skills gap remains a challenge at the board level, the Action Exchange finds. With mandatory ...

VIC SEC is back with $1 billion renewable target

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... This will amount to 1.2 gigawatts of renewable energy generation in addition to the 4.5 gigawatts. The SEC will power commercial and industrial customers, in addition to powering the public service towards the goal of 100% renewable powered Victorian ...

Role for finance after No vote

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... officer at FNMPC said he has seen in his work that many Indigenous people want to work for Indigenous companies for commercial reasons, and do not want their interests to be seen as "charity". Podlasly, a member of the Nlaka'pamux Nation in British ...

Aware Super plugs in to renewable energy platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... distributed energy platform has already purchased two operating solar farms which it is enhancing with BESS, invested in a commercial renewable asset finance business and has a further 10 grid solar and battery projects it is getting ready to construct. ...

Student accommodation provider inks billion-dollar SLL

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... sustainability approach in PBSA and alternative investments, matching best practice in Australia's core real estate sectors of commercial office, retail and industrial, which is, in fact, global best practice." Scape has set a goal of becoming "Earth's ...

ACCC approves Origin Energy bid on renewable grounds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... decision to buy Origin, Australia's fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, is driven by a strong imperative and commercial incentive to lower emissions quickly." "In this case, we determined that the likely gains for Australia's renewable energy ...

Uni partnership to turbocharge innovation in CO2 product manufacturing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
An Australian university hopes to transform carbon dioxide emissions from the energy and manufacturing sectors into useful products or embed carbon into existing products. At Monash University, the Australian Research Council (ARC) Research Hub for ...

Mandatory sustainability calculator streamlines housing approvals

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... both industry and Council staff who assess DAs to streamline the approvals process for new high density residential, commercial and industrial buildings."