The state’s economic regulator is working out how best to balance a need for storage on the electricity grid against concerns Western Power could gain an anti-competitive advantage.
Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group is accumulating tenements near the coastline around Carnarvon, with applications lodged for more than 50 blocks in recent weeks.
State government-owned Western Power was negligent and is partly liable for the January 2014 Perth Hills bushfire, a Court of Appeal decision found today.
Shadow minister Neil Thomson says the giant AREH hydrogen project's ammonia production should be built in Port Hedland and not near the Eighty Mile Beach wetlands.
An industry participation plan has been approved for a potential $500 million-plus expansion of CSBP’s ammonia production in Kwinana, with Technip undertaking Feed work.
Synergy’s $120 million Kwinana battery project will head to development assessment next Tuesday, at least the third utility-scale storage proposal to be reviewed this year.
Alinta Energy is seeking environmental assent for a 60 megawatt gas generator and 40MW battery in Port Hedland, after development approval was deferred.
The difficulty of building large scale hydrogen export projects has been brought into sharp focus after a multi-billion dollar Pilbara proposal was knocked back on environmental grounds.
Hydrogen hopeful Hazer Group has revealed its planned demonstration plant could cost 29 per cent more than first estimated, with shares down 9 per cent.
Western Australia will be battling with other states to build a hydrogen industry, and won’t be able to rely on its traditional advantages, a senior state bureaucrat has said.
A new carbon target for Woodside’s Pluto LNG has been approved; Chevron has invested in solar; and six carbon capture projects have been granted $50 million.
Hybrid Systems Australia has signed a 10-year lease for a facility at Perth Airport to manufacture standalone power systems, and announced an acquisition.
The state’s business lobby has called for the electrical union to come to the negotiating table as Western Power workers planned a 48 hour strike action this week.
