Gnangara-based Pacific Energy will acquire Kewdale's Hybrid Systems Australia as the company positions itself to support an accelerating roll out of new electricity generation technology, such as standalone power systems.
Power prices that fall during the day and rise at night, plus more storage, could help address the growing impact of rooftop solar on Western Australia's southern power grid, with a new report listing 10 suburbs as potential candidates for community batteries.
Western Australia is the only Australian state expecting an increase in power prices during the next three years, according to new modelling out today, which could put pressure on the state government to introduce further competition to the electricity sector.
Magellan Power is considering operations for a capital raising early next year, including an IPO, as it sharpens its strategy to expand production of standalone power systems and microgrids.
Almost $1.2 billion in dividends flowed to the state government from 11 of its businesses in the year to June 2019, according to their recently published annual reports.
Fortescue Metals Group, South32, Iluka Resources, Western Power and Synergy are among a group of 10 resources and energy companies collaborating to develop a toolkit to pre-screen for modern slavery risks within their supply chains.
Perkins Builders has continued its streak of contract wins, after it was awarded the main construction works for a $15 million Western Power depot in Pinjarra.
Consumers have saved $7.5 billion through the Economic Regulation Authority's tight leash on major utilities, according to chair Nicky Cusworth, but work is needed to make the state's rules regime more effective.
Western Power is seeking an order in the Supreme Court of Western Australia to recover its costs from a class action following the Parkerville bushfire in 2014.
Around 38,000 homes in the western suburbs and Fremantle area have been left without power for hours, after a widespread outage hit much of the area this morning.
Deputy under-treasurer Michael Court has joined the board of Horizon Power, the latest in a string of moves to appoint government employees to directorships at energy utilities.
Two microgrid projects worth a combined $123 million have moved forward today as the technology becomes increasingly mainstream, with Gold Fields and GMA Garnet mine sites to have big renewable power and storage components.
Business peak groups have slammed newly minted opposition leader Liza Harvey's policy shifts on public sector wages, privatising Western Power, and retail trading hours.
Western Power chief executive Guy Chalkley has been appointed to the network operator's board, while Kathryn Barrie will wear two hats as a director of the business and continuing in a senior role at the Public Utilities Office.
The battery minerals boom may have captured the public's imagination, but WA is also at the vanguard of applying batteries and other technologies at the consumer level.
OPINION: The Western Australian government's love affair with Western Power is unlikely to be dimmed by local events any time soon, but a new force has been unleashed in the international marketplace as global oil companies morph into global electricity companies.
A Western Power contractor has been found largely liable for destruction wrought by a 2014 bushfire in the Perth Hills region that was sparked by a fallen power pole.
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A new battery storage trial launched by utilities Synergy and Western Power in Mandurah will allow households to store residual energy from their solar panels and use it during peak periods.
BGC Australia has appointed three high profile independent non-executive directors to help advise the family-owned business empire as it enters a global sale process.
An overnight decision by the Economic Regulation Authority will put downward pressure on power prices, with network operator Western Power ordered to further tighten its belt in the next four years.
BN 25th Anniversary series- WA has been slow to introduce private ownership to some state industries, although a series of moves during the Court era generated benefits, according to one prominent WA economist.
State-owned Western Power will need to trim operating costs by about $100 million more than planned over the next five years under the Economic Regulation Authority's latest draft access arrangements released last night.
A solar power company founded by former Western Power manager Neil Danby and olympic basketballer Andrew Vlahov has picked up its first contract, winning $7 million of work for Image Resources' Boonanarring mineral sands project.
SPECIAL REPORT: Increasing energy costs and ongoing reliability issues are two major challenges for farmers with moves afoot to provide relief on both fronts.
A 35-metre seadragon has taken shape across grain silos in Albany, the fourth instalment in a series of murals across regional towns by arts group FORM and grain handler CBH Group.
Batteries and solar panels will be rolled out at 60 locations on the edge of the state's electricity grid throughout the Wheatbelt and Goldfields as part of a plan to improve reliability and cut capital costs across the Western Power network.
Clamping down on the governance of state-owned enterprises such as Synergy is just one major promise the McGowan government has made in response to the Langoulant special inquiry into government projects in the Barnett era, released yesterday.
