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Putting Sustainable Beef on the Table

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... requirements are acknowledged although effectively unaddressed. What this means for the development of sustainability on individual farms or benchmarks against which farmers can compare their practices along each of the key themes identified above remains ...

CEFC invests $150m in solar projects in regional NSW

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... projects in regional New South Wales. Oliver Yates, Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO The three large-scale solar farms will be built in Dubbo, Parkes and Griffith in regional New South Wales, and have a total value of $230 million. They are ...

Barcaldine Remote Community Solar Farm begins energy generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... was one of the first ARENA-funded solar plants and has helped pave the way for the next generation of 12 large-scale solar farms to be built across the country by the end of next year," said Ivor Frischknecht, ARENA CEO. "Supported by ARENA, six big ...

ARENA provides $9.9 million funding to New Gullan Range Wind Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... vertically integrated global wind power company, ARENA said. "There is huge potential to adopt this approach at other wind farms," Frischknecht said. "An ARENA-supported study found there's an estimated 1000 MW of potential opportunities to add solar ...

CEFC, Palisade Investment Partners launch infrastructure fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... provide a broader range of investors with access to investments in renewable energy. Palisade currently manages two wind farms and is developing an expansion to one of these, funded by early adopters LGIAsuper and Qantas Super. "Palisade is well placed ...

Australian grain industry poised for export gains: ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... increase sophistication but also complexity. "Consolidation is happening, that's nothing new," Whitehead said. "Australian farms are going to get bigger, and those farmers that stay in the sector are going to be enthusiastic and passionate about doing ...

Q&A: Richard Brandweiner, CIO First State Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... talent and ideas offshore, which is going to be to our detriment. Things such as our recent sale and lease-back of almond farms is another example of our deploying capital in ways we know is going to boost Australian farmland, and will be able to generate ...

CEFC commits $250m to large scale solar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... capacity in Australia, ARENA said. ARENA noted that around 211 MW in solar capacity is being created at AGL's twin solar farms in Broken Hill and Nyngan and at the Moree Solar Farm. Smaller farms in Royalla (ACT) and Greenough River (WA) together have ...

CEFC reports investing $500 million in last year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... Hockey, and Finance Minister Matthias Cormann. Under the new draft mandate, CEFC would be barred from investing in new wind farms and roof-top solar ventures. The ministers have said the fund should focus on large-scale solar instead. "Receipt of the ...

Swiss Re hedges wind risk for Infigen Energy wind farms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions has written a wind risk hedge for a portfolio of wind farms owned by Infigen Energy, covering six locations in three states and an excess of 500 megawatts of capacity. Jamie Summons, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions' Head of ...