Electricity News in Australia
| 11/29/2024 - The Australian Government has passed the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill through Parliament. The Guarantee of Origin (GO) scheme is a voluntary program for industry. It ... |
| 11/29/2024 - Landis+Gyr a leading global provider of integrated energy management solutions and Sense, a leader in embedded intelligence that transforms the relationship between people, homes and the grid, have an... |
| 11/28/2024 - The Essential Services Commission today released a request for comment paper (PDF), seeking input from industry, community groups, consumers and other interested parties on its approach to setting Vic... |
| 11/28/2024 - The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) today released its analysis of residential electricity prices over the next decade, showing how Australian households could significantly reduce their to... |
| 11/28/2024 - The Albanese Government has pressed go on the Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin) Bill 2024 and its two supporting bills. Passed today, the bills establish the voluntary Guarante... |
| 11/26/2024 - The Albanese Government has commenced a review into how Australia’s largest electricity grid and market will operate in the coming decades, to keep costs low for households and business while better m... |
| 11/15/2024 - Transgrid has welcomed the NSW Government’s planning approval for the nation-critical transmission project HumeLink. CEO Brett Redman said “We welcome the determination by the NSW Minister ... |
| 11/14/2024 - HumeLink transmission project has been approved by the Minns Labor Government, making it one of the largest transmission projects to be approved in the state’s history. The approval means it can now p... |
| 11/14/2024 - On 14 November 2024, the Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) made a more preferable final rule that exempts connection points for batteries, pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) and other forms o... |
| 11/1/2024 - The Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro megaproject has marked a significant milestone, with one of three tunnel boring machines (TBM), Lady Eileen Hudson, now two-thirds of the way through its second tunnel excav... |
Planning for permanent towers begins now that primary supply is secured for NSW Far West Communities
| 11/1/2024 - Transgrid has commenced planning for the construction of the permanent high-voltage transmission towers for Broken Hill and NSW Far West communities, following restoration overnight of the primary pow... |
| 10/31/2024 - Transgrid expects to successfully return power to Broken Hill and surrounding communities by tomorrow afternoon, almost a week ahead of the expected timeframe. Over the past 24 hours, teams... |
| 10/31/2024 - As of 8:41pm Broken Hill time (ACDT) 31 Oct, Transgrid confirmed the power line linking Broken Hill to the HV transmission network was energised. This means that primary power supply has be... |
| 10/30/2024 - Transgrid crews have expedited reconstruction of the 3.5km storm-damaged transmission line near Broken Hill and are working to return the Far West region’s primary power supply as the NSW network oper... |
| 10/28/2024 - Emergency response crews have now erected all seven emergency response towers as repairs to the 3.5km storm-damaged transmission line near Broken Hill accelerate to restore the primary power supply to... |
| 10/26/2024 - An enormous reconstruction effort is underway at Broken Hill where specialist crews are working around the clock to repair the 3.5km section of the storm-damaged transmission line and reinstate the Fa... |
| 10/22/2024 - The Energy Market Authority (EMA) has granted Conditional Approval to Sun
Cable (Singapore) Assets Pte Ltd to import 1.75 gigawatt (GW) of low-carbon
electricity from Australia into Singapore, in li... |
| 10/15/2024 - 500 households in the 2515 postcode in New South Wales are set to be electrified, in a new project announced today by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and partners Brighte, Rewiring Aus... |
| 10/11/2024 - Bergen Engines, a leading manufacturer of medium-speed engines and generator sets, is pleased to announce the expansion of its partnership with Penske Australia & New Zealand. Under this enhanced agre... |
| 10/3/2024 - The Australian Energy Market Commission has released its final determination on a rule change that will introduce greater flexibility in allocating costs for critical interconnector projects across th... |
