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Renewable money splash

April 2016 - The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has awarded industry-researcher collaboration funding totalling $17 million to nine renewable energy projects.

According to ARENA's chief executive officer Ivor Frischknecht , the successful project are expected to deliver commercially viable solutions that will solve current industry challenges.

ARENA's investment will leverage a total of $54 million in contributions from private and public sectors.

Aerial view of the Alcoa refinery, on the shore at Kwinana. image:ARENA

The Australian National University (ANU) attracted the greatest share of the available funding - $4.7 million for three projects. It includes $2.9 million for a study led by Professor Sylvie Thiebaux, who will develop a system to estimate the power that is produced by rooftop solar PV in a given area.

However, the by far largest single grant, worth $4.5 million, was awarded to a project from the University of Adelaide. Leveraging a total of $15 million in investment, the project will investigate whether concentrating solar thermal technologies can be integrated into the Bayer alumina refining process used at Alcoa's Australian refineries.

Other funded projects include:

More information: www.arena.gov.au
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