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Eastwood apartment owners Caroline and Graeme Edwards

Home batteries for renters? A solution could be coming soon

Electricity retailers say they could plug a gap in the clean energy shift and balance rewards for renters and home owners.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

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The costs of building new large energy projects need to be reined in to lift flagging productivity, Ai Group says.

The clean energy era is arriving. Is your power company ready?

As more Australians turn to solar panels and batteries to cut their reliance on the grid, energy retailers are racing to reinvent themselves.

  • Nick Toscano
Climate activism and shareholder unrest is pushing power giants like AGL to speed up the shift to renewable energy.

Coal plant closures can’t wait for nuclear power, warns AGL

Australia’s biggest power supplier says there is no way its coal plants can keep operating long enough for Peter Dutton to replace them with nuclear reactors.

  • Nick Toscano
AGL is one of Australia’s largest power and gas suppliers.

Energy giant AGL fined a record $25m for wrongly taking welfare money

AGL, one of the nation’s biggest energy retailers, has been dealt a record fine of $25 million for wrongly taking money from hundreds of welfare recipients.

  • Nick Toscano
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are at odds over the country’s energy future.

AGL pushes for bipartisan backing on 2030 clean energy goals

Australia’s biggest generator says a target for 82 per cent renewables by 2030 may be challenging but must not be abandoned if the Coalition wins the election.

  • Nick Toscano
Power giant AGL is testing ways to turn off its coal units so it can dodge the daytime onslaught of rooftop solar flooding the grid with cheap electricity.

Coal plants are powering down to survive Australia’s rooftop solar surge

Energy giant AGL last month carried out an Australia-first trial of taking one of the units in NSW offline for five hours and returning it to service in the afternoon.

  • Nick Toscano
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New deal to power up Alcoa’s Portland smelter until 2035

Aluminium giant Alcoa has locked in a new electricity deal to power its Portland smelter in Victoria’s south-west, strengthening the outlook for the plant’s future.

  • Nick Toscano
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has committed to build seven nuclear plants across the country if he wins the next election.

Energy giant issues warning on Dutton nuclear plan

Power giant AGL says Australia has reached a critical juncture in the renewable energy transition and has no time to waste waiting for nuclear.

  • Nick Toscano
The Yallourn Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley.

Bill shock grows as energy giants fail ‘pub test’ on profits

There has been a jump in the number of Victorians seeking help over surging energy prices.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
Australia’s transition to renewable energy is running behind schedule.

Top polluter AGL buys green energy group to power its shift from coal

Power giant AGL has struck a deal to buy a big battery and solar developer as it races to add more renewables in time for its impending coal plant closures.

  • Nick Toscano

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