Today
Renewables are cheapest, even with poles, wires and batteries added in
CSIRO’s annual price comparison of energy sources include transmission and storage costs in renewables calculations for the first time. They still come out on top.
- Ben Potter
Yesterday
AGL lights up Liddell battery, Forrest wind farm seals NSW contract
The latest round of NSW renewables and storage projects coincides with AGL Energy giving the go-ahead to build a $750 million large-scale battery at its Liddell site.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
This Month
Kahlbetzer-backed solar start-up eyes Nasdaq proceeds for SA projects
Vast Renewables expects to commit to building a concentrated solar project and a separate green methanol project in the state in the second half of 2024.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Origin drops another $530m on UK energy player Octopus
Origin’s stake rises to 23pc, in a deal that values Octopus – which may have played a role in thwarting the EIG-Brookfield bid for Origin – at almost $12 billion.
- Hans van Leeuwen
NSW wind farm heads for approval, breaking project drought
A contentious renewables project near a historic gold mine looks set to be the first large wind farm approved in NSW since May 2021.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘Too much risk’: Call for strategic coal power reserves
The head of the electricity supplier, Mark Collette, wants serious discussions on a scheme for a coal power reserve to prevent the lights going out on consumers.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Coal power ‘to be gone in 15 years’
All coal power plants will have closed by 2038, the energy market operator said in a forecast that piles on pressure to pick up the pace of the transmission build-out.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
AEMO may call on emergency power reserves as NSW grid wilts
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe has asked households to dial back on power use if they can to take pressure off the grid as temperatures head towards 40 degrees.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Victoria to offer discounts to switch stoves from gas to electric
The Victorian government has expanded its plan to end the use of consumer gas by offering discounts for residents upgrading to electric induction cooktops.
- Gus McCubbing
Inside the Coalition’s nuclear crusade at COP28
Opposition climate change and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien brought half a dozen Liberal and National MPs to COP28 in Dubai. What were they doing there?
- Hans van Leeuwen
Dubai’s mysterious tower powers a city. The idea is coming to Australia
In the desert outside Dubai, there’s a solution to solar’s intermittency. And it’s headed Down Under.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The one question for every director in Origin’s $20b belly flop
From knockout deal to $20 billion failure, Origin has lessons for every director, investor and adviser.
- Anthony Macdonald
Forced land acquisitions loom to hook up Snowy 2.0 to Sydney
The slow rate of landowner sign-ups to the $5 billion HumeLink transmission project is threatening Transgrid’s timetable for a final investment decision.
- Ben Potter
Origin’s pet Octopus makes a splash at COP28
Octopus CEO Greg Jackson was looking to make his mark at COP28 in Dubai, but he stayed mum on the takeover saga at his company’s part-owner, Origin Energy.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why Origin needs to dust itself off quickly to get the support it wants
Origin Energy’s board and management team needs to pivot, and quickly, to get the shareholders it wants and needs.
- Anthony Macdonald
November
- Opinion
- Renewables
Beware crude controls on rooftop solar systems
We need to be careful that a recently released “consumer energy resources road map” doesn’t lead us down a dead-end road to propping up coal.
- Tristan Edis
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Origin Energy slow march only delays the inevitable vote
The energy company’s shareholders have spun in all directions in the past week. The board needs to refocus them on Monday’s scheme meeting.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Exclusive
- Energy
Brookfield contemplates relisting Origin in as little as five years
The Canadian giant has told potential co-investors that it could bring the energy group back to the stock exchange in a shorter timeframe than most expected.
- Anthony Macdonald
Solar upstart has an answer to AEMO’s big problem
Teho co-founders David and Jonathan Green reckon they can solve a big grid problem – there are not enough virtual power plants to help balance supply and demand.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Origin Energy’s dramatic day missed one important thing
Brookfield and EIG Partners – and indeed Origin – need to work out how to turnaround some of the No votes. And quickly.
- Anthony Macdonald
