The Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility will provide a loan of up to $516 million to Genex Power for its Kidston stage 2 solar and pumped hydro project.
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation isn't precluded from financing all carbon capture technologies, the funding body has told a Senate committee inquiry.
Businesses should move fast if they want to receive two-tier payments for cutting energy use at times of extreme peak demand, says Matt Drum of consultancy Ndevr.
The federal government will make it easier for mines to get funding by broadening the Export Finance and Insurance Corporation's mandate so it can step in when the private sector won't do so.