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Today, we’re announcing the next stage in our rollout of big batteries, with the latest Capacity Investment Scheme auction results supporting enough battery storage to power 3.7 million homes for four hours.
Read more...We know that the best way of dealing with those pressures is for Australia to take up the opportunity of becoming a renewable energy superpower, and for everyone to share in that, as we make that transition to self-sufficient, clean energy that comes from the best solar and wind resources in the world, which we’re fortunate to enjoy here in Australia.
Read more...Right now, though, this new national warning system is called AusAlert. It’s rolling out across Australia in June and will be tested in Goomalling this week. So, if you’re in the area on the day with a compatible mobile device, your phone will vibrate and play a siren-like warning sound for about 10 seconds, and an AusAlert message will appear on your screen. So, the test is one of many being rolled out across the country this month, so the technology can be finalised before peak emergency season. Federal Emergency Management Assistant Minister, Josh Wilson says it’s important to protect the community.
Read more...Good morning. It’s great to be here in Coogee, on Whadjuk Noongar land, with my ministerial colleague, Minister for Energy and Decarbonisation, Amber Jade Sanderson, and Acting CEO of Western Power, Gair Landsborough. And we’re making a big announcement today: 18 new community batteries.
Read more...AusAlert is a new national warning system. It adds to the warning opportunities or functions that we already have by giving our emergency management teams the ability to send out a message to eligible mobile devices.
Read more...So, this most recent round, Tender seven, of the capacity investment scheme includes two projects in Tasmania, near Bothwell, I understand, as you’ve described, a wind farm, Cellars Hill Wind Farm, and Weasel Solar Farm, about 540 megawatts in total, and, as you say, enough renewable energy to power 160,000 Tasmanian homes, so we think that that’s pretty good, and it will come with 500 direct construction jobs and 22 permanent roles once the projects are up and running.
Read more...So we’re really glad that we partnered with the Victorian Government in the first round of this program, with shared funding to the tune of $143 million, where they’re coming along with the second stage, which is $120 million from the Commonwealth, and we will move towards that 19,000 home upgrades with all the benefits that that brings.
Read more...In essence, today, we’re announcing 10 projects that represent one of the largest steps forward in terms of energy capacity in Western Australia’s history, and they enable us to take a really big step forward on our path towards being a renewable energy superpower to the cleaner and cheaper energy system that all Australians deserve, and in this case, obviously assisting the remarkable work that the Cook Labor Government has been doing over a number of years in transforming one of the largest standalone energy systems in the world, the SWIS and the NWIS, or the WEM, the Western Australian Energy Market, which is not part of the east coast energy system and has some challenges as a result.
Read more...So the SHEPI, as you mentioned, is designed to upgrade 100,000 households Australia wide, making sure that those tenants have homes that are naturally more liveable, like warmer in cold weather and cooler in hot weather, but also have the kinds of technological efficiency improvements that reduce costs, which, of course, affect social housing tenants more than they do other Australians.
Read more...We’ve hit 10,000 upgrades nationwide through the Home Energy Upgrade Fund. It’s one of the measures that we introduced when we created Australia’s first National Energy Performance Strategy, and it’s helping householders like Denis to reduce their bills, to take advantage of renewable energy, cheap and available solar energy to power their homes and reduce costs.
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