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The country’s biggest aluminium smelter says green target unreachable
Rio Tinto-backed Tomago, which uses more power than any other industrial operation in Australia, says renewable energy is too expensive and in short supply.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
This Month
NSW idle in pragmatic shift on coal: Glencore CEO
Gary Nagle says the state, where Glencore is struggling to extend the life of a coal mine, has fallen behind the rest of the world in failing to adopt a more “neutral” position on the fossil fuel.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Trump’s new energy secretary linked to Beetaloo Basin gas project
Chris Wright’s Liberty Energy is behind the fracking fleet used for extraction from developing fields in the Northern Territory.
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- Matthew Cranston
Nuclear ban holds Australia back from data centre opportunity
Craig Scroggie says without a ‘logical conversation’ on nuclear, Australia may miss an opportunity to grab an outsized chunk of the booming data centre industry.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Trump win could be good news for Australian energy transition
Investment bankers hope an expected pullback in Inflation Reduction Act support for green investments under the new Trump administration could help Australia.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Energy bill fears grow as transmission costs blow out
Billions of dollars of cost blowouts in transmission announced so far this year have fuelled worries about rising electricity bills for households and business.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Innovations that go above and beyond to meet customer needs
Endeavour Energy, the winner of the Established Business to Consumer category, has found customer expectations keep changing, requiring an innovative response.
- Christopher Niesche
Portal helps manage demand to douse power bill shock
Energy demand influencer Flow Power helps businesses capitalise on low-cost renewables, making it a leader in the Challenger Business to Business category.
- Sylvia Ramsey
- Exclusive
- Industrial relations
Push to end union threat to student housing, summer power prices
Snowy Hydro and Cedar Pacific have applied to suspend crippling work bans that are delaying projects across NSW as Premier Chris Minns faces pressure to intervene.
- David Marin-Guzman and Campbell Kwan
Palisade Impact acquires Quinbrook’s Energy Locals
The acquisition comes after Street Talk revealed Quinbrook had hired Jefferies to shop the asset, alongside a few other energy-related businesses.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Solar thermal developer backed by energy royalty in financial peril
Vast Renewables, chaired by Peter Botten, is battling to remain a going concern, despite a funding deal last December that enabled its listing on the Nasdaq.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
October
Singapore gives early green light to Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Sun Cable
The venture intends constructing a large solar plant in Australia’s north before shipping power to Singapore using an undersea cable.
- Primrose Riordan and Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Community Engagement
- Energy Awards
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 Category
- Energy Awards
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
- Customer Experience
- Energy Awards
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
- Energy Awards
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
NSW to introduce 2034 target for long storage
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says the legislated goal will show investors the government has a long-term commitment to storage.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Phillip Coorey
Offshore wind ambitions in disarray as key players walk
Moves by Origin Energy and Norway’s Equinor have exposed big doubts about offshore wind developing anywhere in NSW, given high costs that are only modestly lower than for large nuclear plants.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
BHP’s Olympic Dam mine idle for a week after transmission outage
Transmission towers feeding power to the copper mine have been damaged by storms. Eight years ago, a similar outage cost it $137 million in the statewide blackout in South Australia.
- Simon Evans
Just one deal, $1m on consultants, board exodus: Vic SEC report card
Former premier Daniel Andrews set sky-high expectations for Labor’s plan to put taxpayer money into green energy investments that two years later have not been met.
- Gus McCubbing and Patrick Durkin