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- Opinion
- Opinion
No plan B: Why we need to stick with the energy transition
Australia’s future depends on us getting the shift to a clean energy system right and political leaders who can focus on the end goal over cheap stunts.
- Kane Thornton
- Lifetime Achievement
- AFR Reports
Grant King: Energy fortune-teller has plenty more to offer
The former Origin Energy boss and former head of the Business Council has been recognised with the Lifetime Achievement award.
- Agnes King
- Wellbeing Category
- AFR Reports
This tribe of mates is saving lives
The winner of the Wellbeing award trains workers to connect distressed colleagues to relevant services, aiming to reduce alarmingly high suicide rates in the energy sector.
- Agnes King
- Customer Experience
- AFR Reports
This app helps you avoid power bill shock
Aurora Energy customers can see their electricity use in real time and decide the best way to be more efficient and cut costs.
- Christopher Niesche
- Sustainability Category
- AFR Reports
Solar panels saved from the scrap heap
By 2027 Australia will be generating a million waste panels a year. ElecSome can put them to good use.
- Christopher Niesche
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- Community Engagement
- AFR Reports
The microgrid delivering energy resilience to bushfire-prone community
Endeavour Energy has worked with government and residents to develop an $8 million battery scheme on the NSW south coast.
- Gus McCubbing
- Innovation - Challenger
- Liontown Resources
This company can build solar farms 10 times faster
The winner of the Innovation - challenger award, 5B, derives 30 per cent of its work from mining companies in remote locations.
- Simon Evans
- Innovation Category
- Energy transition
How drones help power Australia’s energy transition
The winner of The Australian Financial Review Energy Award for Innovation had a tragic genesis. But Powerlink hopes it will show others the benefits of embracing change.
- Hannah Wootton
- Growth Champion
- Lists & Awards
Innovators think big on solar-powered mansions
Australia’s energy entrepreneurs are cashing in on underserved segments of the market, as the winner of the Growth champion category shows.
- Tess Bennett
September
How this battery system can help the energy transition
The electricity grid is long on solar power and short on storage. This first of a kind battery service could be the solution.
- Sian Powell
Out of thin air: Solving the energy storage dilemma
Two first-of-a-kind technologies in Australia are firming up as options to crack the tough nut of energy storage that lasts much longer than batteries.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
August
Resurgent AGL to accelerate clean energy after profits surge
The giant electricity and gas supplier beat profit forecasts and inked $250 million of acquisitions to speed up growth in batteries and solar power.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
July
Origin Energy ups battery investments with $450m Eraring project
The second power storage system to be installed at the NSW Central Coast site will have more than double the duration of the first one.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
How solar beat every forecast to win the renewables race
Solar power is on track to generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear power plants in 2026, its gas-fired power plants in 2030 and its coal-fired ones in 2032.
- The Economist
Why overseas money is pouring into Australian green energy
The country’s electricity generation sector is being radically reshaped, and there is hardly a household name among the big participants in solar, wind and batteries.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith