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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

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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

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
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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
New high-voltage transmission lines are needed to expand the grid to reach more renewables and achieve the Albanese government’s target for 82 per cent of Australia’s power being green by 2030.

Australia’s creaking power grid is thwarting renewables and pushing up prices

Delays in upgrades to the east-coast grid could raise power bills by hundreds of dollars a year in some parts of the country, analysis shows.

  • Nick Toscano
An Amazon data centre in the US.

Power-hungry data centres are booming in Australia. Can the grid cope?

An explosion in the number of data centres in Melbourne and Sydney, which will use vast amounts of electricity, is looming as a new test for the grid.

  • Nick Toscano
AGL is planning to turn the site of its shuttered Liddell coal-fired power station into a low-carbon industrial energy hub.

AGL coal sites to house green manufacturing, not nuclear

Australia’s largest power supplier is moving ahead with its plans to turn its old coal sites into low-carbon industrial energy hubs, despite Peter Dutton’s push for them to host nuclear.

  • Nick Toscano

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