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Local family office backs new venture to invest in climate tech

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... to scale existing technologies. "The new US government has created a lot of noise but with a few exceptions, like offshore wind, the current environment remains positive. We are focused on energy, transport and heavy industry, including mining. These ...

Execs face shareholder backlash over pay: Georgeson

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
The ASX300 experienced heightened shareholder opposition to executive remuneration proposals in 2024 for the second consecutive year, according to shareholder services provider Georgeson. Forty of Australia's 300 biggest listed companies received a ...

Renewable energy company secures $160m from Macquarie

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... the developer, owner, and operator of renewable energy assets in Spain, Portugal, and the US, using technologies in onshore wind, offshore wind, solar, biomass, storage, and hydrogen. It has some 15.5 GW across projects in development, under construction ...

Cbus divests renewable asset

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... Investments (BEI), the largest operational renewable platform in Western Australia with three operating projects and one wind farm which recently reached financial close, with a total capacity of 367MW. Cbus Super, who are a co-shareholder in BEI, have ...

Energy market not fit for investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2025  |  NEWS
... the coal and gas era, says CEIG chief executive Richie Merzian. Merzian is concerned that large-scale energy projects in wind, solar, and batteries are being held back. "The national electricity market was designed in an era of flip-phones and Nokia," ...

Critical minerals get major boost

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
... 4% of global neodymium and praseodymium - two of the world's most sought-after rare earth elements used to make EVs, wind turbines, robotics, and drones. "Rare earth minerals are strategically important resources that are crucial to modern economies ...

Major climate group suspends operations

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025  |  NEWS
An alliance of financiers with over US$57.5 trillion in assets has bowed to US political pressure and hit pause after the exit of the world's largest asset manager, BlackRock. Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM), which has over 300 members, announced ...

Australian Retirement Trust takes stake in Pattern Energy Group

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... current operation of near 10,000 megawatts across North America. It will also allow the energy company to fast-track the SunZia Wind and Transmission project - which will generate sufficient clean energy for more than three million US citizens once completed. ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has welcomed the decision at a recent Treasury investor roundtable to progress work towards encouraging greater investment in Australia's renewables transition. The roundtable was for the ...

Podcast: How Trump will impact global clean energy and climate finance with Lachlan Carey

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) - one of the most impactful policies globally in driving clean energy investment. He will also wind back environmental protection laws, exit the Paris Agreement, and "Drill, baby, drill!" (for fossil fuels). Trump himself ...