Minister for Employment and Small Business, Di Farmer, and Assistant Minister for Hydrogen Development, Lance McCallum are visiting the Kidston pumped storage hydrogen project which is set to play a key role in delivering jobs for Far North Queensland, while creating renewable energy.
RENEW ECONOMY: Chart of the Day – Australia’s best performing solar farms
Larges-scale solar plants have put in a solid performance for the first month of the Australian Spring, bumping up total national output by 20%, year-on-year, to 943GWh up from 784GWh in September 2021.
CAIRNS POST: Striking gold on job front
Open-cut mine west of cairns set to unleash treasures on region as work kicks into gear a repurposed open-cut gold mine west of Cairns is set to deliver a jobs boom as major earth, electrical and mechanical works hit top gear following a construction start of the Kidston pumped hydro project’s upper reservoir.
International Journal on Hydropower & Dams Issue 2, 2022: The global renaissance of pumped storage
In order to succeed in changing to a sustainable energy supply and also achieve climate protection goals, we have to build hydropower plants and also wind and solar farms all over the world. However, as wind turbines and solar cells don’t provide a regular supply of electricity, electrical energy storage devices will be needed on a large scale. Technologies like lithium-ion batteries alone will not suffice.
Andritz Annual Report 2021: Success Story Hydro – Solar Gold
In order to succeed in changing to a sustainable energy supply and also achieve climate protection goals, we have to build hydropower plants and also wind and solar farms all over the world. However, as wind turbines and solar cells don’t provide a regular supply of electricity, electrical energy storage devices will be needed on a large scale. Technologies like lithium-ion batteries alone will not suffice.
RENEW ECONOMY: Genex secures funds for Bouldercombe battery, flags more big battery projects
Renewable energy and storage developer Genex says it wants to grow its portfolio of big battery projects after securing funding to construct its first big battery project in Queensland.
CLEAN TECHNICA: There’s A New Kind Of Gold In Them Pits
An abandoned gold mine in far north Queensland is set to become the world’s first co-located solar and pumped storage hydropower plant.
RENEW ECONOMY: Genex starts construction at flagship pumped hydro storage project
Genex has kick-started main construction works for its flagship pumped hydro energy storage project, commencing tunnel digging at the Queensland site.
RENEWS.BIZ: Oz developer kick-starts 250MW pumped hydro work
Genex has started digging the tunnel for the Kidston project in Queensland.
CREATE DIGITAL: World-first Australian project repurposing mine pits for pumped hydro
Construction is underway on an innovative engineering project that will turn two retired mining pits in Queensland into a pumped hydro energy storage facility.