09/26/2011

GE is supplying an integrated solution of critical, on-site power generation and water filtration equipment to an energy consortium that is building a water treatment plant for Australian coal seam gas explorer and producer QGC.

07/21/2011

Fortescue Metals Group has opted for GE’s LM6000-PF aeroderivative gas turbine technology for its Solomon 1 plant, and is part of Fortescue’s US$8.4 billion, three-year expansion in Western Australia’s iron-rich Pilbara region announced last year.

02/09/2010

9 February 2010 – The AE&E Group, which makes up the Plant Construction Division of A-TEC Industries AG, has won an order from Australia’s second-largest sugar producer, Mackay Sugar to build a 40 MW cogeneration plant in Queensland, Australia.

10/06/2009 An Australian energy utility has agreed to install a BlueGen micro-CHP generator in a showcase sustainability home for a six month demonstration, beginning in February 2010.

09/17/2009 Finland-based supplier of flexible power plants for decentralized power generation, Wärtsilä, has been contracted to supply a barge-mounted power plant to serve a mining operation in Papua New Guinea.

06/03/2009 Melbourne-based clean energy company Ceramic Fuel Cells has launched a dishwasher-sized micro-CHP unit for sale, initially in Victoria, Australia.

05/01/2009 Commercial buildings in Australia have not formed an active market for cogeneration technology – until last year, when one company started to use a particular business model (against a background of growing demand for ‘greener’ building operation and rising electricity prices) to change this.

12/03/2008 Anglo Coal, one of Australia's largest coal producers, has installed a 45.6 MW on-site generation system at its Moranbah North mine, 1117 km north of Brisbane, in Queensland, Australia.

11/01/2008 What contribution can cogeneration, and other distributed generation technologies using renewable fuels, make to meeting Australia's greenhouse gas emissions targets?

10/07/2008 ABB has won orders worth US$48 million for power projects to help mining group Rio Tinto increase capacity at its iron-ore mines in the Pilbara region of Western Australia from 163 million tonnes to 220 million tonnes.

06/10/2008 Foster Wheeler Ltd. has been awarded an engineering and materials supply contract by Woodside for two gas turbine exhaust waste heat recovery units for the processing train at its Pluto liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Western Australia.

05/01/2008 Western Australia faces the unusual situation of having to transmit large quantities of power to the Perth region, from cogeneration and other on-site generation plants located at remote mines and industrial facilities.

11/01/2007 The Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP or AP6) is a very new phenomenon in international climate policy with important effects on the traditional climate regime formed by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol (KP) and likely impacts on the development and transfer of distributed generation (DG) technologies.

11/01/2007 Meat processing accounts for 20% of the Australian food and beverage industry economic value in terms of sales turnover, and 30% of the employment.