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3 June 2021
In the interminable madness of Australia’s debate about energy politics, it has taken a Greens member of state parliament to cut through and demonstrate an understanding of technology and economics that appears beyond the major parties.
Queensland state Greens MP Michael Berkman said on Wednesday that the idea of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on replacing the destroyed coal power unit – as proposed by the state-owned CS Energy, and eagerly supported by both Labor and the LNP – was nuts.
“Spending $200 million on propping up coal would be throwing good money after bad,” Berkman told NCA NewsWire (owned by Murdoch media).
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A European renewable energy powerhouse has purchased a wind farm project in the Callide region, with up to 50 turbines to be installed on the site.
EDF Renewables, the renewable energy subsidiary of the EDF Group and a global leader in low carbon energy, has acquired the Banana Range Wind Farm development project.
The purchase was finalised last week and brings Goldwind Australia and Lacour Energy’s ownership tenure to an end.
EDF Renewables’ growth in the Australian market is in line with the CAP 2030 strategy, which is to more than double the EDF Group’s installed renewable capacity globally, from 28 to 60 gigawatts between 2015 and 2030.
3 May 2021
The French nuclear energy giant EDF has unveiled its first renewable energy project in Australia, a wind farm in Queensland that also has planning approval for battery storage.
The majority French government owned EDF, through its EDF Renewables subsidiary, has been quietly building a portfolio of wind, energy and battery storage projects in Australia as part of its global efforts to more than double its renewable energy capacity and pipeline from 28,000 megawatts now to 60,000 megawatts by 2030. That would be equivalent, in capacity terms, to the nuclear fleet it owns and operates in France.
The first of these Australian renewable projects has now been named – the 280MW Banana Range wind project in Queensland that it has purchased from Goldwind Australia and Lacour Energy.