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  • Power station development flatlines: BREE

    November 17, 2011 - no Comments

    Statistics released by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics show that power station development has stalled, with  just two projects — both windfarms — worth $488 million completed in

  • Vic reg changes to impact wind

    March 22, 2011 - no Comments

    Pacific Hydro says it will not take on any new Victorian wind projects as a result of planning changes in that state, which will see wind farm regulation largely handed

  • Infigen buys out wind partner

    March 22, 2011 - no Comments

    Infigen Energy has bought out its partner in four wind projects in NSW, SA and Victoria to boost its energy development pipeline. Infigen has acquired the remaining 50 percent in

  • SA opens new wind farm

    February 22, 2011 - no Comments

    South Australia has celebrated the opening of another wind project with the launch of the Waterloo wind farm in the state’s mid-north. Developed by Roaring 40s, Waterloo comprises 37 turbines

  • “Windmobile” crosses continent

    February 17, 2011 - no Comments

    A “windmobile” that can travel at more than 90 kmh has just completed a 5000 km journey from Perth to Sydney. Germans Stefan Simmerer and Dirk Gion drove into Sydney

  • South Australia wind project refused approval

    January 24, 2011 - no Comments

    Plans for a $60m wind farm at Myponga near Adelaide have been scrapped, after the state government refused to let the developer vary the number and size of the turbines.

  • Transfield faces fight on Collector wind project

    January 24, 2011 - no Comments

    A community campaign is being launched in the New South Wales town of Collector, north-east of Canberra, in a bid to stop a planned wind farm. Late last year multinational

  • Verve gets into wind

    January 19, 2011 - no Comments

    WA utility Verve Energy is developing a $150 wind farm with Macquarie Capital near the town of Geraldton. The Mumbida project will have a capacity of 55 megawatts, powered by

  • Renewable projects flag in 2010

    December 21, 2010 - no Comments

    Australia’s construction of renewables projects dropped almost 80 percent this year as projects struggled to arrange financing, according to the Clean Energy Australia 2010 report released this week. Seventeen “large-scale”

  • Baillieu victory bad news for wind in Victoria

    December 7, 2010 - no Comments

    The wind industry is in a “holding pattern” following the election of the Baillieu government in Victoria and its tough new stance on wind farms. Before the Brumby government lost