Australia

Australia will consider selling uranium to India during the ongoing state visit of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to India.

The 10-megawatt Greenough River Solar Farm, Australia's biggest solar project comprising 150,000 photovoltaic panels, has opened.

A report indicated that Australia is not yet ready for commercial geothermal production, although an expansion in production capacity of over 0.075GW will be achieved by 2022.

Australia-based CBD Energy will launch its portfolio of renewable energy businesses in the US during the Solar Power International conference in Orlando.

Wärtsilä has been contracted to supply the equipment for a gas engine based expansion to the McArthur River zinc mine power plant in Australia’s Northern Territory. The project is being undertaken by EDL NGD (NT) Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of the international energy company, Energy Developments Ltd (EDL), who will sell the electricity generated by the plant to McArthur River Mining Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Xstrata plc, the international mining resources company.

Coal-rich Australia says it installed 785 megawatts of rooftop solar power in 2012, making it world leader in this category.

The second unit of the 550MW gas-fired Mortlake Power Station in Victoria has been commissioned, signalling its formal completion.

Ratch-Australia will spend US$1.1 billion in the next three years buying power plants and building wind farms.

A study revealed that solar and onshore wind will be the cheapest sources of electricity in Australia by 2030.

Oceans could be supplying 10% of Australia's electricity needs by 2050.

Hokuriku Electric Power Co. plans to dig a tunnel under the reactor 1 building at its Shika nuclear power plant to investigate a suspected active fault.

Tonga’s first and largest grid-connected solar park is ready to go online this July.

The Sydney-headquartered subsidiary of Yingli Green Energy will provide solar modules, as well as after-sale services, in the Australian market.

An expansion of the world's largest uranium deposit wil allow South Australia to fuel a third of the world's nuclear power plants.

The Queensland government has recalled AU$75 million or US$77 million in funding for a 250MW solar thermal project in Chinchilla.

The Australian government will grant A$900,000 to the University of Melbourne for a study on cost-effective abatement on electricity generation.