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Battery storage the next energy disruptor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... same battery and, in some cases, inventing new models. "If battery storage costs come down a lot, then the battery plus solar configuration will really be a major competitor to wind and critical [minerals] technology," said Monique Miller, chief investment ...

Green moves at Future Group, AusSuper, Birdwood, Minderoo, Mutual Trust

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... investor with a $2 billion portfolio. Rastogi will oversee integrated renewables assets, like battery energy storage and solar. In his previous role at Frontier, Rastogi headed real assets; before that he spent time at Westland Capital, IFM, and Lazards. ...

Impact investor boosts affordable housing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... quietly financed 270 new social 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 ...

Westpac, CEFC back climate tech fund

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2024  |  NEWS
... infrastructure company JET Charge, and soil carbon agribusiness Loam. The venture capitalist has also invested in ultra-lightweight solar panel maker Sunman, aircraft drag reducer MicroTau, battery storage developer Relectrify, and lithium innovator ...

Clean energy approvals increase

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... and small-scale technology certificates (STCs). By the end of the year, CER predicts 3-4 gigawatts of large-scale wind and solar will come online, plus an estimated 3.1 GW of small-scale rooftop solar. In the first half of the year, 1.5 GW of large-scale ...

Study finds answer to land use battle

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... economists, and academics to understand legal, policy, market and technological barriers to clean energy rollout. Large-scale solar is vital to meeting Australia's emissions reduction targets of 48% and renewable energy target of 82% by 2030, according ...

Clarity on sector pathways sparks investor confidence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... Government's Net Zero Plan. The government will now decide Australia's 2035 climate target. Existing technologies such as solar, wind, and energy storage batteries form the cornerstones of Australia's decarbonisation pathways across sectors. However ...

Natural gas buyout bulldozes investors: Analysts

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024  |  NEWS
... spin that methane gas is lower emissions than coal, ignoring that methane are almost 100% more emissions intensive as wind, solar, hydro and nuclear energy. "LNG is far more emissions intensive than methane gas... given the massively energy intensive ...

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 ...