Startup · $1.2m raised
Every investor coverage indicates participated in a round Australian Energy Market Operator raised.
| Investor | Rounds | Invested |
|---|---|---|
| Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) | Grant | $1,200,000 |
Companies Australian Energy Market Operator acquired or merged with, per published coverage. Buying a company is not investing in one: nothing here counts in the deals column.
| Name | Role | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Audrey Zibelman | Managing Director and CEO | RenewEconomy |
| Violette Mouchaileh | Executive General Manager of Emerging Markets and Services | ARENA |
| Matthew Clemow | Acting Chief Operations Officer | ARENA |
Stories naming Australian Energy Market Operator. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.
A large South Australian battery has stood idle for weeks because part-owner Zen Energy entered voluntary administration, triggering its market suspension, while its hoped-for sale to commodities trader Gunvor collapsed.
Listed Perth developer Frontier Energy has locked in $110 million of equity pledges for the first stage of its Waroona solar and battery project in Western Australia, with more funding still required.
Also RenewEconomy
FRV has secured financing for its Gnarwarre battery in Victoria, adding two financiers to last year's portfolio-wide refinancing; the article also recalls the Terang close and a 2022 ARENA grant.
Ampyr has locked in bank debt above A$340m, a Zen Energy virtual offtake and Fluence as battery supplier for its first large battery in NSW, with a 6 GWh storage goal for 2030.
RenewEconomy reports Edify Energy's Koorangie battery has begun exporting power in Victoria's north-west. Italy's Sosteneo owns the project, enlarged to 185 MW after a $119 million state fund injection.
ARENA is granting A$20.8 million to Western Power for Project Jupiter, a three-year distributed energy marketplace in Western Australia run alongside Synergy, Energy Policy WA and AEMO.
ARENA has awarded UNSW $1.7 million for Project CICCADA, a $4.3 million research effort analysing data from rooftop solar, batteries and electric vehicles to inform integration of consumer energy resources into the grid.
ARENA grants GridWise Energy Solutions $337,000 toward its Dynamic Model Validation project, an online platform that lets renewable generators pre-check their models for faster grid entry.
Also RenewEconomy
ARENA has granted AEMO $1.2 million, with AusNet as partner, to design shared digital infrastructure for integrating consumer energy resources into the National Electricity Market, building on the earlier Project EDGE trial.
Also RenewEconomy
A rolling roundup of Australian energy-sector job moves, listing dozens of executives, directors and ministers joining or leaving utilities, regulators, developers and industry bodies between May and December 2023.
ARENA grants $1.43 million to Reactive Technologies for a Victorian trial of its real-time grid inertia measurement technology, with support from DEECA, AEMO, Neoen and the Melbourne Energy Institute.
ARENA commits $8 million toward expanding the Hornsdale big battery in South Australia, with state government storage funds and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation also supporting the project.
ARENA grants $8.6 million to Western Power for Project Symphony, a distributed energy pilot in Western Australia's main grid with Synergy and AEMO, which earlier secured $26.9 million in government funding.
ARENA grants AEMO $12.9 million for Project Edge, a Victorian trial building a distributed energy resources marketplace with partners AusNet Services and Mondo.
ARENA announced a $2.7 million grant to Wattwatchers for My Energy Marketplace, a consumer-facing energy data hub connecting smart devices in thousands of homes, businesses and schools across Australia.
ARENA grants Solcast $994,685 for a South Australian renewable generation nowcasting demonstration, with AEMO, Weatherzone, TESLA Asia Pacific and SA Power Networks involved in testing and sharing the forecasts.
Also RenewEconomy
Federal officials told a senate estimates hearing that no taxpayer money has been committed to a Collinsville coal plant study or to AGL's Liddell generator, despite earlier government announcements suggesting otherwise.
Australia's northern infrastructure agency has approved concessional debt covering all financing for Genex's Kidston pumped hydro and solar project, with a Japanese partner taking equity and an earlier solar raise recalled.
Profile of five Australian renewable-energy startups covering wave power, wind forecasting, turbine monitoring, solar payment plans and battery materials, along with their recent grants and raises from ARENA, government programs, AirTree, NAB and others.
ARENA commits grant funding for AEMO's virtual power plant trial and for GreenSync's grid software, while Ausgrid and Reposit Power launch a trial VPP across Sydney and surrounding regions.
Renewable energy sensor company Fulcrum3D received two grants from ARENA, totalling nearly a million dollars, to trial wind and solar forecasting technology alongside a broader agency-backed forecasting program.