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Gas demand in the Goldfields will underpin a new $460 million pipeline connecting Western Australia’s two key gas trunklines.

Construction of a hydrogen plant that will have enough energy to power 100 homes in the coastal town of Denham has been approved by the federal government.

The Liberal Party is standing by its previous commitment to keep Western Power in public hands, with a plan to allow retailers to enter the market place to drive competition.

With bushfire smoke covering Perth and minimal wind, the state’s coal power generators ran at full capacity for a period in Tuesday afternoon’s sweltering heat.

Five large mining companies have separately launched initiatives this week to accelerate a move toward electrification of their mine sites.

Construction of Horizon Power’s Denham renewable hydrogen project will soon get under way, a $7.3 million pilot of the fuel’s potential.

Local IT services firm Empired has won a managed services contract worth at least $9 million from state-owned Horizon Power.

State-owned Horizon Power has contracted two businesses in the West Kimberley to install rooftop solar panels as part of a $5.2 million project at Derby Hospital.

Limitless WA: Standing on top of a glacier in New Zealand, Horizon Power chief executive Stephanie Unwin had a realisation which motivated her to make green energy a top priority.

Business News has devised a collection of some of Perth’s world-leading innovations.

Five years after the state government declared it wanted to make electricity prices cost reflective, Synergy is set to receive about $1.7 billion of subsidies over the next four years.

The first EV charger along the state's proposed electric highway is due to be installed in the coming months courtesy of a major Victoria-based outfit.

Horizon Power has bought into a Cockburn-based contractor, in the state government’s latest move to extend its reach into the energy industry.

About 400 Esperance residents and businesses have switched from gas to electricity, with the local distributor to cease supplying gas to the town today.

Former Commissioner of the Australian Energy Market Commission Michelle Shepherd has been appointed chairperson of WA’s gas and electricity supplier Synergy.

A $715 million state budget package to ease financial pressures from households will include $450 million worth in energy bill relief from the WA government.

The first of eight electric vehicle chargers to be rolled out by Horizon Power in the Kimberley under the WA EV Network is now operational.

Minerals explorer Australian Vanadium has notched a deal with Horizon Power to source and install a battery for a pilot renewable energy project in the Kimberley.

The Gascoyne region is now part of Western Australia’s electric vehicle network, with a new fast charger launched in Carnarvon today by Horizon Power.

Horizon Power has boosted its fuel storage in the North West to better cope with wet season inundation in the wake of this year’s Fitzroy River floods.

State-owned energy retailer Synergy has recorded a before tax loss of $732.6 million last financial year, attributed to contracts where expenses exceed economic benefit.

The state government’s EV charging network has hit the Pilbara, with the first of six EV fast chargers planned for the region launched at Karratha this morning.

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Companies planning hydrogen projects in WA want more government leadership as they survey the sector’s spluttering progress.

A policy exemption will allow renewable energy aspirants to secure a Crown land lease option in WA before their projects have received EPA approval.

An accelerated push for renewable energy has opened the door for innovators seeking to build, deliver and maintain the dream of net zero.

North Metropolitan TAFE students will have hands-on experience and training in renewable energy infrastructure after the campus signed an agreement with Horizon Power.

The Goldfields is an obvious place to build a wind farm, according to Energy Minister Reece Whitby, as he begins the task of finding out how the state’s largest outback town was left without power for days.

Zinc bromine and sodium sulphur batteries will be tested at microgrids in regional Western Australia, as Horizon Power looks to beat the impacts of heat on its remote storage solutions.

Constraints which blocked Karratha residents and businesses from connecting residential solar to the North West Interconnect System grid have been removed, Horizon Power has revealed.

Some $18.4 million will be used to deliver 50 standalone power units, with $8 million in grants for wind turbine manufacturing up for grabs.

More than 6,000 residents and businesses in Broome will finally be able to install rooftop solar, after more than two years of capacity limits which ruled out new installations in the town.

A plan to deliver transmission infrastructure connecting Woodside’s Pluto LNG plant and Maitland solar farm to the state’s North West Interconnected System will cost $166.3 million.

BHP’s iron ore boss has called for greater collaboration to build an interconnected Pilbara energy grid to help the region’s industry heavyweights decarbonise.

Engineering consultant GHD has won a contract to carry out preliminary engineering on a shared-use power transmission network designed to support the Pilbara’s decarbonisation.

A government microgrid trial has turned enough solar power for 80 homes into enough hydrogen power for three homes in WA’s Gascoyne.

Minerals explorer Australian Vanadium has successfully completed factory acceptance testing of its vanadium flow battery, bound for Horizon Power's pilot renewable energy project in Kununurra.

The state government has taken the next step in its billion-dollar plan to decarbonise the Pilbara, as it seeks proponents to build the transmission lines to deliver its plan.

Exmouth could be 80 per cent powered by renewable energy by 2026, after Horizon Power tapped Pacific Energy to build a solar farm and two batteries under a power purchase deal.

Economic challenges have dominated discussion in a hydrogen sector where driving ideology and market need are yet to align.