Helium drilling set to start after WA taxpayers shielded from cleanup costs
UK-listed Georgina Energy plans to drill in the remote Little Great Sandy Desert in search of helium, hydrogen and natural gas.
Renewable Energy
Renewable energy in WA comes mainly from rooftop solar panels and wind farms.
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Australian Renewable Energy Hub's $50b plan shrinks
The half-sized project in WA's North West will now pursue power sales to Pilbara miners and data centres and the production of green ammonia off-site.
South West WA grid beats 50 per cent renewable energy, slashing power prices 13 per cent
South West WA's power grid reached a record 91 per cent peak renewable energy share in December - driven by 1,225 MW of new battery storage - while wholesale power prices fell 13 per cent and carbon emissions dropped 15 per cent as coal and gas generation declined.
Synergy plans $4.5b wind, solar and battery farm in WA's Wheatbelt
The state-owned utility needs to replace the generation capacity it will lose by closing down all its coal-fired power stations over the next four years.
BP pulls out of $55b mega-scale Pilbara hydrogen project
Troubled UK oil and gas major BP has exited its third WA alternative fuel project in six months, walking away from the Australian Renewable Energy Hub after just two years.
What are Labor and the Coalition offering on energy, emissions and climate?
While the focus is elsewhere, the threat of climate change remains. Have a look at what both sides of Federal politics intend to do about it.
Explainer: what does it mean to ‘firm’ renewables?
Large power grids are among the most complicated machines humans have ever devised - here is how a key component works.
BP puts brakes on Kwinana clean fuel plans
BP has stood down contractors working on its biofuel plant just weeks before discovering if its adjacent green hydrogen project will win $1 billion of government backing.
New 490MW MidWest WA wind farm plans 2028 start-up
The Parron wind farm could slash the carbon pollution from generating WA's power by one million tonnes a year.
More coal and gas, less renewables: what a nuclear power plan for Australia would really mean
Nuclear energy is shaping up as an election fig leaf like no other.
BP’s Geraldton green hydrogen dream needs help
Green hydrogen has long term promise for WA but needs help to scale and escape the trap of being an expensive product with a limited market.
$94B green ammonia hub proposed for the Nullarbor
Companies behind the Asian Renewable Energy Hub and the Mirning People are planning a vast $94B green ammonia hub on WA's south coast.
A green Pilbara needs wind and one network: Alinta
WA's iron ore miners must develop wind power and drop decades of rivalry to share transmission networks to meet their emissions reduction targets, according to Alinta Energy.