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Burying electricity lines creates new resilience risk
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (299+ words) Burying electricity lines to avoid extreme weather only creates new resilience risk without recognising excavation damage threat, according to Before You Dig Australia (BYDA). BYDA is urging the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) to update its Network Resilience Guidelines to recognise…...
Work begins on two new transmission lines in WA
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (270+ words) Construction is now underway on two new transmission lines as part of Clean Energy Link – North (CEL-North) project in Western Australia. This will see the construction of 11km of new transmission lines to provide homes and businesses throughout Perth with renewable…...
EnergyAustralia fined for alleged life support process failures
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (343+ words) EnergyAustralia has been fined $276,626 for allegedly failing to put proper processes in place to ensure eligible multi-site customers were correctly registered for life support protections. In Victoria, energy businesses must identify, register, and support customers who rely on energy-powered life…...
Origin confirms security breach includes customer data
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (326+ words) Australia’s largest energy gentailer, Origin Energy, has confirmed that a data security breach has seen unauthorised access and disclosure of some customers’ data. News of the breach was revealed when The Australian received correspondence from a hacker with a sample…...
$30 million in grants to strengthen Australia's grid
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (212+ words) The Australian Government will provide $30 million through its Grid Enhancing Technologies (GET) Grant Program for 14 projects that will help strengthen Australia’s electricity grid. These grants are part of the Albanese Government’s Rewiring the Nation program, investing more than $20 billion to…...
Alice in electrical energy Wonderland
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (581+ words) It’s time for Alice to embrace reality. The electrical energy world is how it ought to be, never mind technological restrictions or commercial factors. Today’s Australian Financial Review carried an article titled Renewables sector tells data centres to pay up,…...
Tiny Western Australian town to run on 80% renewables
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (224+ words) The tiny Goldfields town of Menzies will soon have one of the cleanest power supplies in Western Australia, with a new energy system to deliver up to 80% renewable energy. Under the plan, Menzies will be largely run on 409kW of solar…...
Australia Post accelerates shift to electric trucks and vans
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (413+ words) Australia Post will expand the country’s largest electric delivery fleet, adding electric trucks and vans to its network and reducing future reliance on diesel fuel. Supported by a one-off $40.5 million investment from the Australian Government, the rollout will include a…...
ARENA backs HAMR Energy forestry-to-fuels projects
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (322+ words) Low-carbon liquid fuels (LCLF) company HAMR Energy has been granted up to $32 million in conditional funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to advance its landmark forestry-to-fuels projects. Related article: HAMR Energy to build methanol-to-jet fuel facility in SA…...
Origin Energy investigating potential data security breach
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (229+ words) Australia’s largest energy gentailer, Origin Energy, is investigating a data security breach that it says may involve unauthorised access to some customers’ data. Related article: Origin Energy to refund customers after ACCC investigation The Australian said it had received correspondence…...