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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 ...

Macquarie opens clean energy arm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... projects across New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania. These include 2.4 GW of large-scale onshore wind farms in Western Australia developed in partnership with Green Wind Renewables. A wind farm in Boulder Creek near Rockhampton, Queensland ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... quickly aging coal-fired power stations, and potentially gas-fired stations, with renewable energy assets - wind and solar farms and behind the meter rooftop solar generation with dispatchable capacity such as storage and demand response. Around $100 ...

Nearly a quarter of Australian bank debt has nature-related risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... commented that valuation methods incentivise nature degradation: "Farmers who promote the long-term resilience of their farms and landscapes - by taking actions like retaining biodiversity corridors, planting shelter belts and fencing off creeks and ...

Aware Super plugs in to renewable energy platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... transition to a clean energy future." The Birdwood distributed energy platform has already purchased two operating solar farms which it is enhancing with BESS, invested in a commercial renewable asset finance business and has a further 10 grid solar ...

Brookfield buys UK Banks Renewables

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... private equity, real estate, and credit. Family firm the Banks Group sold its renewable energy division with 11 onshore wind farms across the UK, and two further wind farms under development, which will add 400 megawatts of additional capacity. The projects ...

NZ solar attracts $170 million international capital raise

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... certification. It will provide long-term fixed-rate debt to support the rollout of solar energy through new grid-connected solar farms and distributed solar installations on homes, schools, farms, and businesses. The renewable share of electricity generation ...
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