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Energy and Climate Summit 2024
The Energy and Climate Summit addresses the big questions about the management and pace of the country’s energy transition and explores the opportunities it presents in our journey towards a low-carbon economy
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The Australian Financial Review’s Energy and Climate Summit addresses the big questions about the management and pace of the country’s energy transition and explores the opportunities it presents in our journey towards a low-carbon economy.
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Westpac joins $200m raise for unshackled climate VC
Westpac and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation will back Virescent Ventures’ second fund, which aims to raise $200 million to invest in climate tech start-ups.
- Tess Bennett
Power prices surge as renewables output flatlines
A drop in output from solar farms and another increase in coal power output in the third quarter add evidence of the road bumps in the energy transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Updated
- Energy
Origin Energy deals big blow to Australia’s hydrogen hopes
The electricity and gas giant will not proceed with a project in the Hunter, which had been shortlisted for funding as part of Labor’s $2 billion incentive scheme.
- Updated
- Elouise Fowler and Jessica Sier
- Exclusive
- Energy
The secret plan to bring a floating LNG terminal to Melbourne
The Victorian government is examining a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the southwest of Port Phillip Bay.
- Patrick Durkin
Peak-demand utility expands solar farm portfolio by a third
CleanPeak Energy has bought three farms from a European company listed on the Warsaw, Prague and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges.
- Elouise Fowler
September
Australia favourite to host COP31 climate talks
A growing coalition of countries is backing Labor’s plans for the 2026 summit to be hosted in concert with Pacific countries.
- Tom McIlroy
Dutton’s nuclear policy put to the test
Several of the fundamental arguments made by Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to underpin the Coalition’s nuclear policy do not convince independent energy experts.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Origin reworks coal power stalwart for final years
The giant Eraring coal generator faces a dynamic last few years to cope with the influx of renewables as the baseload site reinvents itself.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
August
Energy and Climate Summit 2024
The Energy and Climate Summit addresses the big questions about the management and pace of the country’s energy transition and explores the opportunities it presents in our journey towards a low-carbon economy
July
Nuclear talk finally goes ahead after Holmes à Court criticism
The engineer whose nuclear speech was cancelled the day renewable energy advocate Simon Holmes à Court objected to it has finally delivered the talk.
- John Kehoe
BHP warns on ‘made in Australia’
BHP has warned the Albanese government that its flagship Future Made in Australia policy risks being undercut by the economy’s high costs, unproductive workplace laws, and uncompetitive tax system.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Gas
We need to clear the runway for new gas supply
Growing acceptance from governments of the role of gas in the energy transition is yet to translate into actions to clear the backlog of projects stuck in regulatory approval purgatory.
- Samantha McCulloch
Project Bravo: BNRG, Leeson seek backers for 30MW solar project
Three are located within the Gippsland Renewable Energy Zone, but all have a 22 kilovolt distribution line nearby, according to the flyer.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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
Dutton slams energy ‘fanatics’ on both sides as he spruiks nuclear
Peter Dutton has seized on new data showing the east coast grid was heavily reliant on coal and gas during recent winter months due to a lack of wind and sun.
- Phillip Coorey
Cold snap confirms energy price surge, and need for gas and coal
Light winds through much of the June quarter drove a return to gas and coal power, and pushed up wholesale prices drastically in some states.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Updated
- Gas
Woodside says investors back $1.4b US buy, but some have questions
Meg O’Neill says no investors have questioned investing in US LNG, but Aware Super queried the impact on climate targets and shares fell further on Tuesday.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
New gas needed for energy transition, domestic supply: minister
The Albanese government has given the green light to gas exploration in the east and west coast. But safeguards have failed to placate green groups.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Climate balance sheet reveals a dire bottom line
Letters from readers on the climate debate; ANZ’s bonds scandal; energy wars; Fortescue job losses; remembering MH17 victims; and a post-election exodus from the US.
Green hydrogen not dead despite Fortescue retreat, says Bowen
State energy ministers have unanimously reiterated their opposition to Peter Dutton’s nuclear plans.
- Phillip Coorey
Energy CEOs urge industry not to quit hydrogen dream
Australian businesses need to be smarter and work harder to overcome the cost hurdles in hydrogen, which has a strong future in some industries, CEOs insist.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Don’t put all energy transition eggs in one green basket
The energy revolution is producing militant evangelists and sceptics of individual technologies. Andrew Forrest’s hydrogen retreat shows policymakers need to be more open-minded.
- The AFR View
Green hydrogen too ‘expensive and inefficient’: Finkel
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel – who devised Australia’s first clean hydrogen strategy – now says we are “unlikely to use hydrogen for storage of electricity”.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith, Peter Ker and Jessica Sier
Albanese sticks to hydrogen despite Fortescue retreat
Andrew Forrest ditching plans to produce 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030 has sparked questions over the government’s climate policies.
- Andrew Tillett and Brad Thompson
- Exclusive
- Construction
Downer EDI pitches in on flailing EnergyConnect construction
The troubles at the cable project are being closely watched because its failure would imperil the entire build-out of the transmission grid, sources say.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Jenny Wiggins