Fremantle-based Carnegie Wave Energy has partnered with the University of Adelaide on a $1.8 million project to research and develop control strategies for wave energy converters.
In the third part of our series featuring EY Entrepreneur of the Year nominees, Business News talks to three chief executives in the technology sector.
First Solar has awarded contracts to Perth-based construction company WBHO Civil for structural and electrical work at Australia’s largest solar energy plant, near Nyngan in New South Wales.
Sino Gas & Energy Holdings has appointed former Ophir Energy commercial and business development director Glenn Corrie as the firm’s new chief executive officer.
Two months after acquiring fraccing technology developer Ecopropp, energy company Coretrack has completed a successful raising of $2 million to advance the new business.
Western Australia’s monopoly electricity network provider has been warned it may be facing a Kodak moment as consumers demand changes to how electricity is made and moved around the state.
Woodside Petroleum has turned the threat of cheap liquefied natural gas exports from the US into an opportunity for the producer to resell some of that LNG at a higher price.
Former premier Richard Court has renewed his calls for the federal government to share half the revenue from offshore oil and gas projects with the states, while also expressing confidence about the future of the mining sector.
Chevron has marked a significant milestone at its 80 per cent completed Gorgon liquefied natural gas project, receiving the final module required for its gas processing train on Barrow Island.
New Energy Corporation’s plans to build two Western Australian waste-to-energy facilities have received a boost after the company secured up to $50 million in senior debt from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
The competition watchdog has raised concerns the proposed sale by Wesfarmers of its east-coast LPG business to competitor Elgas could leave customers vulnerable to price increases.
Western Australians will have to wait until Christmas to find out how much the government saved by merging power generator and retailer Verve and Synergy.
The resources sector will struggle to find enough skilled workers to drive production on the LNG plants expected to come on-stream in the next few years.
The enormous gas supply deal Russia recently struck with China reduces Australia’s advantage as a major liquefied natural gas exporter, according to Australian advisory firm EnergyQuest.
ATCO Australia managing director Steven Landry will return to Canada at the end of the month after a three-year stint in charge of the Perth-based division of the energy infrastructure business.
The Environmental Protection Authority has commenced a new assessment of the proposed LNG gas hub near Broome, as speculation over development of the offshore Browse Basin gas fields increases.
The Barnett government has moved to defer future payments to providers of reserve electricity in a key first move of its review of the state’s electricity market.
The federal government has announced it will spend an extra $1 billion on its Emissions Reduction Fund to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but has failed to reveal what penalties will apply to companies that don’t comply.
Two Western Australian companies pushing waste to energy projects worth more than $710 million are planning to start construction within the next year.
More than 10,000 heavy vehicles could be running on liquefied natural gas in Australia by 2020, according to global management consultancy firm Accenture, which is working to facilitate the uptake, especially at Western Australian mines.
New Energy Corporation has shifted its waste to energy projects into gear by contracting the Australian arm of US-based engineering company Kiewit to handle design and construction for two plants worth about $330 million.
The state government has secured private funding to build own and operate a 150 megawatt power station in South Hedland which will incorporate infrastructure from a smaller power station that collapsed engineering company Forge Group was building.
Gas industry leaders lined up today to call for more supportive government policies on workplace relations, taxation and skilled migration, saying these changes were crucial if the sector was to maximise growth opportunities.
Premier Colin Barnett has launched a blunt attack on the gas industry, saying it doesn’t understand Australia, had left his government swinging “high and dry” and needed to do more for the domestic market.
