Adam Smith's lesson for Alan Finkel
Australia's libraries are already stacked with studies on demand response and network investment incentives.
Australia's libraries are already stacked with studies on demand response and network investment incentives.
Energy producers and users have seized on the Finkel Review as a "potential gamechanger" for the industry.
Business has spoken. Large companies are desperate to end the impasse over energy policy that has given Australia the costliest and dirtiest energy in the Western world, and see Alan Finkel's energy stability plan become a reality.
Energy entrepreneurs welcomed the Finkel review's focus on bigger roles for wind and solar power and distributed energy.
Soaring east coast gas prices are foiling hopes of a renaissance of the fuel's use in power generation.
Martin Koehne's storage battery system went live just a few days before AGL Energy revealed SA power prices would jump 18 per cent from July 1.
As if we needed a reminder on the other side of the world, we are not immune from political turbulence.
New twist in Plutus Payroll fight as ATO trumps last-minute bid to appoint administrators.
The national energy market operator should be given a "last-resort" power to purchase natural gas in order to guarantee reliable power supply, the Finkel report says.
It may just be that business may prove to be an ultimate force for good in seeing an end to a domestic political war that has also destroyed...
Lyon Group partner David Green is poised to see Alan Finkel agree with him that new solar and wind projects must come with battery storage.
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