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The RayGen solar plant in Mildura.

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
AFR- Accenture Roundtable. 
 
Grant King at the 'Future of Work' roundtable in Sydney.  photo Jeremy Piper  .

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

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

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

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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October

After Bawley Point was ravaged by bushfires in 2019, residents were determined to become more energy resilient.

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
5B’s chief executive David Griffin. The company has a string of investors and is growing fast.

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
Troy Malcomson reckons drones for aerial stringing are the way of the future for power line construction.

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
Sydney’s wealthy suburbs have been slow adopters of solar.

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
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Render of Hydrostor’s planned Silver City Energy Storage Centre near Broken Hill in western NSW.

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

AGL Energy CEO Damien Nicks.

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

The battery will be installed close to an ageing coal power plant that is due to close in 2027.

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
Over the course of 2023, the world’s solar cells, their panels currently covering less than 10,000 square kilometres, produced about 1600 terawatt-hours of energy.

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

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