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ABC News
26-05-2025
- Business
- ABC News
Denmark's co-op wind farm to double output as energy projects gather steam
Atop a windy headland on the picturesque south coast of Western Australia is one of the country's first community-owned renewable energy projects. Compared to the mega-farms proposed elsewhere in regional Australia, the Denmark Community Windfarm (DCW) is a minnow. The twin 800-kilowatt turbines, both 55 metres tall, produce about 40 per cent of the town's total energy needs. It is a fraction of the energy produced by commercial development, but for the last 12 years the modest facility has returned financial and environmental dividends. DCW director Paul Llewellyn said there was a plan to expand the operation amid population growth in the area. "We have approval for four turbines," he said. "We can keep the two running and put two additional turbines up, or we could increase the size of those two. "Batteries added to that [would] make it an even more integrated system. Mr Llewellyn said the energy sold to WA's state-owned electricity provider Synergy reduced the electricity bills of the 160 community shareholders by about 10 per cent. Plans to connect batteries to increase the community's load capacity were in the works, but a cap on government funding meant the plan was put on hold. "We've investigated and made an application for support to get five large batch-scale batteries embedded into the local network," he said. "We should have got support, that was a perfect project to do regional-scale storage and integration of electricity and batteries into the network." Mr Llewellyn said as Australia moved towards the goal of net zero, governments should have a mandate to support communities wanting to participate in the energy market. "It's profitable at the household scale, it's profitable at the community scale, and it's much cheaper for governments to support that than it is to build large-scale architecture, transmission and generation themselves," he said. A Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water spokesperson said it was considering implementing new residential and community subsidies, but there was no funding for mid-scale community-led projects. At the state level, a spokesperson for Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said the government had established specific agencies to develop government-backed energy projects. They said the state government also supported community projects through its Clean Energy Future Fund and the regional-specific Traditional Owner Participation Support Fund in the Pilbara. The DCW is one of hundreds of "mid-level" energy projects across Australia being developed as part of a growing trend for communities to consolidate and participate in the national energy market. A similar project, the 4.1-megawatt Hepburn wind farm was built at Leonard's Hill in Victoria in 2011, while a 2,400-megawatt community-owned solar farm in Goulburn New South Wales was under development. Community Power Agency director Jarra Hicks said communities across Australia were increasingly looking to enter the energy market. "There's a lot of interest, and there's even more in the pipeline." She said while retail and household generation like rooftop solar had been widely supported, mid-scale developments in between household and commercial projects were less supported. "There's this gap in the middle, this middle-sized project where community energy groups have a strong role to play and a lot of benefit," she said. Independent energy analyst Ray Wills said as the proliferation of renewable technologies in the country rose, so too would stability in the grid. "Adding batteries to the grid will stabilise it to enable our energy security. It'll do a whole pile of things, that's what distributing energy is meant to do," Professor Willis said. He said efforts by the WA and federal governments to stabilise the grid, including subsidising the purchase of home batteries, had not given enough attention to regional areas. "We really should be focused on getting those batteries into the regions," Professor Wills said. "We don't really need them in the city straight away as much as we need them in the country straight away; every town in WA really should be being enabled."
Business Standard
12-05-2025
- Business
- Business Standard
DCW standalone net profit declines 25.77% in the March 2025 quarter
Sales decline 13.48% to Rs 537.91 crore Net profit of DCW declined 25.77% to Rs 11.38 crore in the quarter ended March 2025 as against Rs 15.33 crore during the previous quarter ended March 2024. Sales declined 13.48% to Rs 537.91 crore in the quarter ended March 2025 as against Rs 621.69 crore during the previous quarter ended March 2024. For the full year,net profit rose 93.36% to Rs 30.28 crore in the year ended March 2025 as against Rs 15.66 crore during the previous year ended March 2024. Sales rose 6.88% to Rs 2000.34 crore in the year ended March 2025 as against Rs 1871.59 crore during the previous year ended March 2024. Particulars Quarter Ended Year Ended Mar. 2025 Mar. 2024 % Var. Mar. 2025 Mar. 2024 % Var. Sales 537.91621.69 -13 2000.341871.59 7 OPM % 10.3810.20 - 9.679.38 - PBDT 45.9849.05 -6 149.28120.28 24 PBT 20.7424.61 -16 49.3526.49 86 NP 11.3815.33 -26 30.2815.66 93
New Indian Express
06-05-2025
- Politics
- New Indian Express
Delhi Commission for Women to be reconstituted soon, says CM Rekha Gupta
NEW DELHI: The Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday said that the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), which has been inactive for some time, will be revived soon. Addressing a gathering at Rashtriya Mahila Aapke Ghar Jan Sunwai, CM Gupta said that women in distress look to the government for support, and currently, nearly 1,500 such cases are pending. Her comments about a planned turnaround of the DCW came against the backdrop of the women's panel slipping into a state of decay due to alleged irregularities in contract appointments by the previous AAP government. AAP's Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal resigned as the panel's chief after she was nominated to the Rajya Sabha. The Commission, with an annual budget of around Rs 25 crore, has also faced a funding crunch for months. Last year, the Women and Child Development of the Delhi government ordered the discontinuation of services of 223 contract workers in the DCW.
Hindustan Times
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
CM pledges to revive Delhi women's panel
The National Commission for Women (NCW) on Monday launched a five-day Mahila Maha Jansunwai (public hearing) in Delhi to fast-track resolution of nearly 1,500 pending complaints by women. The event saw participation from Delhi chief minister Rekha Gupta, who assured 'full administrative support' to the initiative and pledged to reconstitute the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), which has been non-functional for nearly a year. 'All the pending cases will be taken up for immediate action. The entire police and administrative setup will be present here, and continuous hearings will take place. Maximum cases will be resolved, and the affected women will get justice,' CM Gupta said at the event. She called the initiative a 'good beginning' and promised that the Delhi government would act as a collaborator to ensure no woman in the capital faces injustice. The Delhi government, she added, is also taking broader steps to enhance women's safety. These include setting up 11 one-stop centres, installing thousands of CCTV cameras, eliminating dark spots through better lighting and connectivity, opening 500 crèches for working women, and providing ₹2,500 in monthly financial assistance to economically disadvantaged women. Gupta confirmed that the DCW—whose chairperson, member secretary, and three nominated members completed their tenure in July 2023—will be reconstituted soon. 'We have taken cognisance, and the Delhi Commission for Women would be constituted soon so that complaints from women can be heard more effectively,' she said. To be sure, the DCW functions like a civil court and runs several programmes such as sahyogini, mahila panchayats, a rape crisis cell, a mobile helpline, and pre-marital counselling. NCW chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar urged women complainants to attend the Jansunwai and raise their grievances directly before authorities. Officials said priority will be given to existing complaints, but walk-in cases will also be addressed on the spot, where possible. According to NCW data, Delhi ranks second after Uttar Pradesh in complaints received this year, with 253 cases of domestic violence topping the list.
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Business Standard
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Standard
Delhi Commission for Women to be revived soon, says CM Rekha Gupta
Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Monday said that the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), which has been inactive for some time, will be revived soon. Addressing the gathering at Rashtriya Mahila Aapke Ghar Jan Sunwai, CM Gupta said that women in distress look to the government for support, and currently, nearly 1,500 such cases are pending. "That's why the Delhi Commission for be reactivated and will begin functioning again," Gupta said. At the event, organised by the National Women Commission, she also shared a recent complaint received during the public hearing at her residence, where a parent reported that some boys had been harassing their daughters despite a formal complaint being lodged. "Such people will keep making mistakes, but it is our responsibility to take action against them," she said. To enhance women's safety, CM Gupta said 50,000 CCTV cameras will be installed at identified dark spots across the city. She explained that dark spots are not just areas with poor lighting but also those with weak network connectivity. Gupta also reiterated that support for working women, including setting up 500 crche facilities and disbursing financial assistance of Rs 2,500 for eligible women, will be provided, and the government is working toward it.
