ARENA Opens $20m R&D Round for Industry-Partnered Projects
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) today announced up to $20 million for a new research and development (R&D) round dedicated to industry-partnered projects that seek to develop and...
View ArticleSydney Bike Challenge Sets World Record
A record 4,793 people pedalled a total of over 334,000 kilometres as they vied for top honours in the Sydney Rides Business Challenge, making the City of Sydney-sponsored event the largest of its kind...
View ArticleUNSW Close to Creating Australia’s First Road Legal Solar Sports Car
AN ambitious team of undergraduate students from the University of New South Wales are on the brink of creating the Southern Hemisphere’s first road legal solar sports car. Having built and raced five...
View ArticleTesla and Reposit Power Team Up with ARENA Supported Storage Solution
Reposit Power has announced it is combining its GridCredits storage system with Tesla’s Powerwall Home Battery. The intelligent GridCredits system has been designed to work with battery storage...
View ArticleAustralia Battery Trial to Put Storage on the Front Foot
A new Canberra-based storage trial will examine whether lithium-ion batteries could enhance electricity grids and increase the use of renewable energy. Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) CEO...
View ArticleNews Analysis: Paris Climate Change Conference to be different from Copenhagen
CANBERRA – Paris will not be Copenhagen both because the process leading up to the United Nations Climate Change Conference there at the end of this year is well ahead of schedule but also because...
View ArticleSydney Airport Investigates Electric Buses
Sydney Airport has announced it is investigating the addition of electric buses to the airport’s parking and ground transport operations. The airport has invited Expressions of Interest from...
View ArticleClimate Scientists Find Elusive Tropospheric Hot Spot
UNSW researchers have confirmed strong warming is taking place in the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, a phenomenon long predicted in global warming theory. UNSW researchers have confirmed...
View ArticleMelbourne Tram Managers Face the Feedback
An average of 30 passengers at each stop had conversations with their local team to find out how Yarra Trams and Public Transport Victoria are managing individual tram routes. The overall tone of the...
View ArticleAuckland All Electric, All Weekend, All Lines
Electric trains will be introduced into weekend service on the Southern and Western Lines from this Saturday 16 May. They will now run on weekends across all of Auckland’s electrified network which...
View ArticleAustralia Queensland Keen to Capitalise on a Solar Future
Minister for Energy and Water Supply Mark Bailey said Queensland is open for business and keen to capitalise on the state’s world class solar resources. For three years, the previous Newman government...
View ArticleSolar 2015 Presentation by ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht
Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) CEO Ivor Frischknecht addressed the Solar 2015 Exhibition and Conference in Melbourne on 14 May 2015. “There’s no question that the solar industry is...
View ArticleMelbourne Older Trams Make Way for Next Generation
Some of Melbourne’s oldest trams are being retired after close to 40 years of service as more next generation E-Class trams are added to the network. The retirement of Z-Class trams is part of Yarra...
View ArticleNew Laboratory to Increase Confidence in Australian Solar
CSIRO is set to increase confidence in large scale solar by more accurately predicting how different solar photovoltaic (PV) systems will perform on Australian shores. Over the course of a 32 month...
View ArticleFunding secured: Sydney Metro to Be a Reality
Sydney’s much-needed second harbour rail crossing will become a reality now that funding has been secured for the NSW Government’s $20 billion Rebuilding NSW plan. NSW Premier Mike Baird and Minister...
View ArticleWorld Comes to Get on Board Sydney Metro
Minister for Transport and Infrastructure has welcomed hundreds of rail industry experts from across Australia and around the world to an industry briefing on Stage 2 of the Sydney Metro project....
View ArticleBiggest Congestion Busting Budget in New South Wales History
More than $16 billion for transport upgrades The NSW Government today announced the 2015-16 Budget had delivered the biggest investment boost in transport infrastructure the state had ever seen....
View ArticleInvesting in Australia’s Battery Storage Market
A new player is entering the Australian battery storage market with the help of a $6.3 million investment by the Southern Cross Renewable Energy Fund, supported by the Australian Renewable Energy...
View ArticleNew South Wales Transforming Regional Train Travel
Shortlist announced for new intercity fleet Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance today announced that four consortia have been shortlisted to tender for the supply and maintenance...
View ArticleSydney! First Look Inside New Automated Metro Train
Minister for Transport and Infrastructure Andrew Constance today unveiled the first glimpse of Sydney’s new metro train, with a life-size train model delivered for customer testing on Sydney Metro...
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