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Warakirri adds NSW citrus orchard to ag fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... located in the Riverina, is spread across 160 hectares and features several citrus varieties currently operated by Eureka Farms Australia, a subsidiary of Southern Cross Farms. The citrus harvested will be supplied to Mildura Fruit Company's Pacific ...

Impact investor boosts affordable housing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... and affordable homes, 114 Specialist Disability Accommodation units, 62 distributed rooftop solar arrays and two carbon farms set to sequester an impressive 570,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide. Through CIM funding, carbon farming not-for-profit Greening ...

Shareholders to pressure supermarkets over seafood sourcing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... targeting Woolworths and Coles to drop industrial salmon farming in Macquarie Harbour in the west coast of Tasmania. The farms threaten the endangered Maugean Skate, a species now depleted to just 40-120 adults, by depleting water oxygen levels. This ...

Energy asset owners hungry for cover

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2024  |  NEWS
... large number of replicated parts over a very large asset." Increasingly, the firm sees demand in large-scale BESS, wind farms, PV solar farms, and DC-coupled BESS/PV solar projects. "Australia has seen significant growth in the development of large-scale ...

TelstraSuper pumps more into renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... 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 data centre ...

Future Super returns 10.1% to ethically minded members

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2024  |  NEWS
... 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 trillion ...

Sandon Capital to buy carbon farms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2024  |  NEWS
An activist fund has lobbed a $11.6 million cash takeover bid for a majority stake in 30 Western Australian carbon farms. Carbon Conscious Investments (CCI) holds carbon property rights to nearly 17,000 hectares of Mallee trees plantation in the WA ...

Amazon's Queensland operations to run off solar

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2024  |  NEWS
... sources, with a goal of 100% by 2025. Following a deal signed back in 2020, Amazon's 150MW Suntop and 110MW Gunnedah solar farms in regional New South Wales are now operational. Amazon declined to disclose the cost of these projects. The company has ...

VC initiative to catalyse AgTech for climate solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... development of drought resilience products and services for farmers, while delivering commercial returns for Australian farms, innovators and agrifood investors. The Beanstalk Drought Venture Studio is currently staffing up and is identifying the key ...

Capacity Investment Scheme expansion to jolt renewable energy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... (able to be turned on and off to meet demand). The remainder will be variable capacity, like large-scale solar and wind farms. This would be a doubling of the renewable energy in Australia's electricity grid and is equivalent to more than 10 times ...