Perth renewable power company Frontier Energy has revealed plans to significantly expand its proposed Waroona solar farm to help replace retiring coal-fired generation within six years.
The latest round of a federal energy investment scheme designed to derisk private projects is expected to stimulate as much as $4 billion of renewables investment in WA.
Its report coincided with the WA government laying out more details on its planned energy transition and Western Power issuing grid connection offers to battery storage projects.
The federal government has backed the development of four big batteries in regional WA, adding to the multi-billion-dollar investment in battery storage already underway in the state.
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Frontier Energy has appointed former Western Power chief executive Guy Chalkley as its non-executive chair, following an appointment of Mark McGowan that was ultimately never ratified.
Frontier Energy has shed light on its bungled recruitment of Mark McGowan as chair, revealing the former premier had signed a letter of appointment but never locked in a start date.
Mark McGowan-linked Frontier Energy says a proposed hike to the price paid for electricity supporting the state's grid at peak times will boost the economics of its stalled solar project.
OPINION: Today marks three months since Frontier Energy announced Mark McGowan as its new chair but we still don't know when he will take up the role, if at all.
Frontier Energy has kicked off alternate finance discussions on its $304 million Waroona solar project, after a $23 million capital raise and $215 million debt facility collapsed this week.
A Frontier Energy placement to raise more than $23 million has been scrapped after the solar energy aspirant's share price plummeted earlier this week, while uncertainty hangs over incoming chair Mark McGowan's start date.
Frontier Energy still expects former premier Mark McGowan to join its board as chair, while the fallout from yesterday's grid access snub appears to have impacted a $40 million capital raise.
ANALYSIS: Incentives from the Australian Energy Market Operator to stimulate growth of the state's battery storage capacity may have dented a renewable project's production vision.
The Australian Energy Market Operator has given Strike Energy's proposed South Erregulla peaking power plant a leg up, granting it credits to contribute to the electricity grid in 2026.
Mark McGowan-chaired Frontier Energy shares have plummeted more than 50 per cent, after its Waroona solar project was snubbed by the operator of the state's electricity grid.
Mark McGowan-chaired renewables aspirant Frontier Energy says rare cockatoos will be front of mind, as it starts environmental work on a 565-hectare expansion area at its Waroona project.
Former premier Mark McGowan has landed another post-political role, taking on the non-executive chairman position at Perth-based renewables aspirant Frontier Energy.
ASX-listers Strike Energy and Frontier Energy have each received Australian Energy Market Operator approval to supply peaking power into the South West Interconnected System.
The City of Perth will not bear the cost of a hydrogen refuelling station proposed for construction in West Perth under a partnership with ASX-listed Frontier Energy.
City of Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas is confident the planned installation of the state's first public hydrogen vehicle refuelling station on Thomas Street will have a domino effect.
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