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| UpdatedAGL Energy is preparing to shut down the Tomago Aluminium Smelter for the second day running to curtail electricity and prevent blackouts across the state.
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A South Australian teenager who needs a machine to help him breathe has more reason than many to worry about power blackouts, after brief rolling outages earlier in the week cut power to thousands of homes.
Topics: diseases-and-disorders, health, electricity-energy-and-utilities, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedNew South Wales escapes enforced power blackouts due to record-high electricity demands caused by a heatwave that's moving across the state.
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| UpdatedSouth Australia could reduce its reliance on the National Electricity Market through major infrastructure investment, according to a policy expert, as it looks to overcome a privatised market that has proved unreliable.
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Residents in the outback South Australian town of Leigh Creek say problems with phone and internet coverage are not just inconvenient, but putting locals at risk.
Topics: mobile-phones, internet-technology, electricity-energy-and-utilities, rural, weather, leigh-creek-5731, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedQuestions are being asked about whether Queensland's power grid will be up to the task as a heatwave hits and temperatures soar to over 40 degrees.
Topics: weather, solar-energy, environment, electricity-energy-and-utilities, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedMalcolm Turnbull has made a stunning turnaround from urging zero-emissions energy to spruiking "clean coal" — seemingly in the face of climate science, Stephen Long writes.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, coal, turnbull-malcolm, australia
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| UpdatedThe SA Government has suggested "complete nationalisation" of the electricity system and a new gas-fired power station as two options to secure power supply.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, alternative-energy, environment, states-and-territories, energy, adelaide-5000, sa
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| UpdatedAn Environment Department investigation confirms the contamination near Linc Energy's underground coal gasification plant is much more widespread than previously thought.
Topics: oil-and-gas, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, environment, states-and-territories, hopeland-4413, chinchilla-4413, qld
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Why is South Australia running out of power and what is load shedding?
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| UpdatedSA Liberal leader Steven Marshall is opposed to a nuclear waste dump in the state, but says nuclear energy is a potential solution to the state's energy reliability problems.
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| UpdatedMuseums Victoria shows interest in acquiring parts of Victoria's oldest working pieces of industrial heritage.
Topics: coal, mining-industry, electricity-energy-and-utilities, history, morwell-3840
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Topics: federal---state-issues, states-and-territories, electricity-energy-and-utilities, australia
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| UpdatedSouth Australians enduring a severe heatwave have been warned they could face power cuts as the state struggles to meet power supply demands. We take a look at the process of load shedding and why it takes place.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, industry, alternative-energy, environment, wind-energy, solar-energy, states-and-territories, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, sa, australia
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South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill says the state is 'on its own' with respect to the national energy grid and that the government will intervene in the electricity market.
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AGL Energy reports a profit after tax of $325 million for the six months to December 31, a turnaround of $774 million from the prior period.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, company-news, business-economics-and-finance, australia
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| UpdatedEssential Energy cuts or relocates 14 finance staff in regional New South Wales in an effort to slash costs.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, workplace, broken-hill-2880, queanbeyan-2620, goulburn-2580, port-macquarie-2444
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| UpdatedSouth Australian Premier Jay Weatherill promises to "intervene dramatically in the electricity market" as the state swelters in a heatwave which led to power cuts last night and the threat of more to come today.
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West Australian consumers could face huge power price hikes in the coming years unless the State Government starts to factor in the exponential growth of renewable energy, a new study finds.
Topics: solar-energy, electricity-energy-and-utilities, energy, states-and-territories, bunbury-6230, busselton-6280, wa
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| UpdatedThe chairman of Papua New Guinea Power, Andrew Ogil, says they hope to be able to provide an uninterrupted electricity supply to Port Moresby once a hydro power station to be built in the mountains of Kairuku Hiri District in Central Province is complete.
Topics: electricity-energy-and-utilities, pacific, papua-new-guinea