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ARENA to provide finance for pumped hydro facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will commit financial support for a $777 million pumped hydro plant in Queensland. ARENA has announced it has conditionally approved up to $47 million in funding to support the Genex Power's Kidston ...

CEFC finances Tesla megapack battery project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has invested $160 million in a big battery project in Victoria. The CEFC senior debt facility will finance the design, construction and operation of Neoen's 300 MW Victorian Big Battery (VBB), which will ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
AGL and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) are launching an $8 million trial to test the impact of electric vehicle (EV) charging on the electricity grid. Three hundred AGL customers who sign up to AGL's Electric Vehicle Plan will participate ...

ARENA, CEFC changes open door to CCS, hydrogen investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
The federal government will extend a fresh $1.62 billion to the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to invest, and will change the legislative remit of ARENA and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) towards investing in carbon capture ...

ARENA allocates $2.17m to Alice Springs grid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will allocate $2.17 million to support the Alice Springs Future Grid Project. (image courtesy of ARENA) The two year project will focus on addressing barriers to further renewable energy penetration in ...

ARENA grants additional funding for Monash Uni renewables study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) provided nearly a half million dollars in additional funding for a Monash University-led project to investigate the integration of renewables into the national energy grid. The two-year project which began ...

CEFC to oversee $300m Advancing Hydrogen Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will oversee a $300 million Advancing Hydrogen Fund aimed at supporting the growth of "a clean, innovative, safe and competitive Australia hydrogen industry." Ian Learmonth, CEO, Clean Energy Finance Corporation ...

CEFC, ARENA commit up to $58m for Hornsdale Power Reserve

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) are committing up to $58 million for a 50% expansion of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, the world's largest grid-scale battery. The Hornsdale ...

Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Climate change will be one of the most pressing issues of the forthcoming federal election, no more so than in the Melbourne electorate of Kooyong, where former Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Oliver Yates is running as an independent challenger ...

$12.5 million ARENA initiative to fund distributed energy resources projects, studies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has launched a $12.5 million initiative to fund pilot projects and studies to integrate distributed energy resources (DER) into the electricity system. The aim of the initiative is to increase the proportion ...