How water could power Australia's future
The federal government wants to use taxpayer funds to support new pumped hydro electricity generation across Australia.
Alan Finkel looks at state renewables caps
Chief Scientist Alan Finkel is looking at caps on the take-up of intermittent wind and solar power in the states.
Carnegie takes out 100 per cent of EMC in $13m deal
Carnegie Wave Energy is poised to tap into the burgeoning market for microgrids after inking a $13 million deal to acquire 100 per cent of Energy Made Clean
Snowy Hydro resorts to more diesel in SA
Hydropower giant plans to shift 28MW of diesel power plants from NSW to reduce exposure to spiking power prices.
Perth firm to build world's first wave energy microgrid
Carnegie Wave Energy will build the world's first renewable energy microgrid involving wave energy on an island off the coast of Western Australia.
Singapore buys Snowy Hydro's SMEC
Snowy Mountains Engineering Company expects to triple its Australian workforce after being acquired for $393m.
Snowy Hydro to go solar
Snowy Hydro is closely eyeing potential new large-scale solar power projects in South Australia and Queensland.
Drought-stricken Tasmanian winegrowers mull radical water move
Severe drought in Tasmania is forcing winemakers to look at a radical and expensive move to bring new water supplies to their vineyards.
Tasmania's power crisis prompts study of $1bn duplicate cable
Tasmania's unprecedented power crisis has prompted the Turnbull government and the Tasmanian government to back a feasibility study into a $1 billion duplicate high voltage cable to the mainland's reliable coal fired power.
Tassie energy crisis could cost island state more than $400m
Tasmania's energy crisis could cost the tiny island state more than $400 million, a leading energy expert has warned.
Hydro Tasmania ramps up diesel units
The Basslink power cable between Victoria and Tasmania will not be fixed until well into the winter.
Rio's Bell Bay risks closure
Rio Tinto's Bell Bay aluminium smelter could face closure if it loses any more supply in Tasmania's electricity crisis.
Hydro's diesel solution to Tasmanian electricity crisis to cost
Record low rains and the failure of the Basslink high voltage cable to Victoria's brown coal power stations have combined to pitch Tasmania into an energy crisis.
Snowy saved by $234 million safety net
Faced with a supply crunch, power company switched on new generator 'in anger' for first time.
NZ to end large-scale coal power generation
New Zealand is saying goodbye to coal-fired power generation, with Genesis Energy permanently shutting its last two coal-burning generators by 2018.
It's time to pay for research to save a warming planet
The answer to carbon driven climate change is a technological revolution, writes Martin Wolf, and a boost to the grotesquely small amount of public sector funding for research.
$280m hydro power project headed for ASX has Chinese backer
A Queensland company is preparing to list on the ASX as part of an ambitious plan for a $280 million hydro power generation project which borrows from the Snowy Hydro model.
Tassie Hydro is surprise RET winner
Tasmania's government owned Hydro-Electric Corporation is a surprise winner from the renewable energy target scheme over the past three years, generating renewable energy certificates worth more than $250 million at today's prices.
Quake threatens Nepal's 'game-changer' hydropower sector
As the scale of the human tragedy unfolding in Nepal becomes evident one of the few beacons of economic hope - the vast hydropower potential of the Himalayas - is also under threat.
Abbott spinner Jane McMillan now at Snowy Hydro
Jane McMillan left Tony Abbott's office in colourful circumstances just before Christmas last year. Where is she now?
IFM hires banks for $2b Pacific Hydro sell-off
IFM Investors is seeking to offload Pacific Hydro less than a year after taking a $685 million write-down on the assets.
Time running out for a deal on the RET
The federal opposition will meet business, manufacturers, clean energy firms and unions on Monday to discuss the renewable energy target.
Snowy Hydro banks on wholesale electricity price surge
Snowy Hydro hopes a rebalancing of the electricity market will enable it to generate a return on its latest acquisition.
IFM investors accept $685m write-down on Pacific Hydro
Fund manager IFM Investors has taken a $685 million write-down on its Pacific Hydro renewable energy business due in part to the adverse impact of the Abbott government’s clean energy review.
Snowy Hydro reveals ‘fourth pillar’ retail ambitions
Snowy Hydro has revealed ambitions to become the “fourth pillar” in energy retailing, supported by potential debt-funded moves to boost its access to base-load power generation.
