An electric vehicle for underground mines and a geothermal development in the Mid West are among more than a dozen projects to have secured grants worth nearly $14 million.
BHP Nickel West has signed a 12-year deal with Italian renewables company Enel Group to source wind power from the under-development Flat Rocks Wind Farm.
Alinta Energy wants development approval for a bigger than expected battery at Port Hedland Power Station, but the planned gas generator expansion will be slower.
Fortescue Metals has clarified a statement by Andrew Forrest implying that a partnership between E.ON and Fortescue Future Industries could see the companies fork out $50 billion.
Infinite Blue Energy will buy the Northam Solar Farm and hopes to invest $80 million to build a green hydrogen project; while a deal for Merredin Solar Farm is progressing.
Woodside Petroleum's solar thermal commercial demonstration plant in California is moving forward, while it has agreed with partner Heliogen to market the technology in Australia.
A review into a series of electricity outages which left thousands of customers without power for up to 12 hours over Christmas has found demand during heatwave conditions went beyond Western Power's capacity.
Hancock Group has been cleared to proceed with its largest investment into the energy sector after the federal court approved its joint bid with POSCO to acquire Senex Energy.
Woodside hopes to make ethanol from carbon emissions through a deal with two US businesses, while BP recently signed Honeywell for green diesel technology at the old Kwinana refinery site.
The company building the Hazelmere wood waste-to-energy project has entered administration, after work on the plant stopped around Christmas amid rising cost pressures.
Transformers that could explode, a 38 per cent rise in bushfires and increased chances of a system blackout are key risks identified by Western Power, Business News can reveal.
Whatever the findings of Michelle Shepherd's report into summer power outages, due to be delivered today, Western Power will be embarking on a massive capital investment program.
The buyer of South Fremantle Power Station remains undisclosed but Synergy says it was not the business which initially approached the government last year.
Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Guy Debelle is joining Fortescue Future Industries as chief financial officer in a major coup for Andrew Forrest's green energy business.
