ARENA Funds Australia’s First Community-Led Electrification Trial Updated On Thu, Oct 24th, 2024 by Saurenergy Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), and its partners Brighte, Rewiring Australia and Endeavour Energy, are set to electricity 500 households in New South Wales, in a new project announced recently announced by the organization. ARENA is providing $5.4 million in funding for the “Electrify 2515 Community Pilot” to support the electrification of 500 homes in […] Read more
Australia’s ARENA Announces $100 Million Solar ScaleUp Challenge Updated On Tue, Jul 2nd, 2024 by Saurenergy The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has launched the global Solar ScaleUp Challenge. With an aim to identify solar innovations that can bring down costs and deliver solar faster, shortlisted submissions could gain access to a total pool of up to AU $100 million (INR 550 crores) in grant funding from ARENA. Final submissions close on 14 August 2024. […] Read more
Vast Solar Gets $65 Million Funding from ARENA for Australia’s Concentrated Solar Plant Updated On Tue, Feb 14th, 2023 by Saurenergy The Australian Renewable Energy Agency’s (ARENA) has announced a funding of $65 million to renewable energy developer Vast Solar to help the firm deliver its VS1, the 30 MW/ 288 MWh concentrated solar plant in Port Augusta, South Australia. The funding is expected to create hundreds of jobs and be the catalyst for an Australian […] Read more
Aussie Solar Start Up 5B Feels the Need for Speed: ARENA Updated On Wed, Jan 19th, 2022 by Saurenergy On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $14 million in funding for 5B to accelerate the automation of its innovative utility scale solar array, 5B Maverick. Launched in 2017, the 5B Maverick is a modular, prefabricated solar array that can be built and pre-wired in a factory and […] Read more
ARENA Grants $100 M to Support Grid Scale Batteries Updated On Tue, Dec 28th, 2021 by Saurenergy On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced a $100 million competitive funding round for grid scale batteries equipped with advanced inverters to support the grid. ARENA’s Large Scale Battery Storage Funding Round will provide up to $100 million in funding to new battery energy storage projects of 70 […] Read more
$50 M to Ramp up Microgrids in Regional Australia: ARENA Updated On Fri, Sep 24th, 2021 by Saurenergy On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced the launch of the $50 million Regional Australia Microgrid Pilots Program (RAMPP) to support microgrid pilot projects across regional Australia. Announced in the 2020-21 Federal Budget, the six year program aims to improve the resilience and reliability of electricity supply […] Read more
Transforming the Grid with Pole-mounted Batteries: ARENA Updated On Tue, Aug 24th, 2021 by Saurenergy On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $4 million of ARENA funding to United Energy to trial the use of pole-mounted batteries to support more rooftop solar and manage peak demand across the low voltage distribution network in south Eastern Melbourne and the Mornington Peninsula. The first of […] Read more
World’s 1st Solar-Hydro Plant for Longer Duration Energy Storage: ARENA Updated On Thu, Jun 10th, 2021 by Saurenergy On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $15 million in funding to RayGen Resources Pty Ltd (RayGen) to construct its first of a kind ‘solar hydro’ power plant comprising 4 MW of solar PV generation and 3 MW / 50 MWh (17 hours) of dispatchable storage capacity […] Read more
Alcoa to Investigate Low Emissions Alumina: ARENA Updated On Mon, May 24th, 2021 by Saurenergy On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has today announced $11.3 million in funding to Alcoa of Australia Limited (Alcoa) to demonstrate technology that can electrify the production of steam in its alumina refining process using renewable energy. Australia is the world’s largest exporter of bauxite and one of the largest […] Read more
