Yesterday
Eraring closure ‘tall order’ as plant underpins supply in heat spike
The country’s largest coal power generator is scheduled to shut in 18 months as negotiations between its owner, Origin Energy, and the NSW government drag on.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
February
Forrest taps former APA gas guru to run Squadron Energy
Andrew Forrest has hired former APA Group boss Rob Wheals to lead Squadron Energy which is building wind farms and gas plants across the eastern states.
- Brad Thompson
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Solar firm 5B readies Indian manufacturing after $50m US deal
The company will build a US Customs-compliant plant partnership with top Indian panel maker and engineering group Waaree.
- Ben Potter
Voters back energy cost relief over emissions reduction: poll
Growing cost-of-living pressures are pushing Australians to prioritise lowering the price of their power bill over the source of their electricity.
- Tom McIlroy
EnergyAustralia lauds ‘marked improvement’ as losses narrow
The electricity retailing and generation giant’s Hong Kong parent, CLP Group, said the company was on “a path to recovery” after several years of major losses.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Turnbull wins tender to develop hydroelectricity in NSW
A private company owned by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has won a NSW tender to develop hydro schemes in the Hunter Valley.
- Peter Ker
Inside Snowy 2.0: getting a $12b mega-project back on track
The Florence tunnel boring machine will need to pick up the pace to 12-15 metres a day to stay on target as the scheme pursues Australia’s renewables dream.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Alinta seeks FIRB approval for renewables deal
Alinta is understood to have squared off against Beijing Jingneng Clean Energy (BJCE) in the auction’s final round.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Rio Tinto’s giant Queensland bet on Andrew Forrest wind farm
The deal marks another major step in moving the company’s coal-powered aluminium production assets away from fossil fuel.
- Ben Potter
Acciona bets on Qld clean energy as NSW, Victoria lag
The move confirms Queensland as a renewable energy powerhouse and heaps pressure on NSW and Victoria to hasten the approval of more large projects.
- Ben Potter
Origin acquires two projects in NSW Renewable Energy Zone
Origin is pressing on with plans to bulk out its green energy portfolio following the collapse of its Brookfield deal last year.
- Elouise Fowler
- Opinion
- Carbon challenge
The Garnaut-Sims power plan is Argentina on steroids
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would be an act of amazing self-harm and would destroy Australia’s big export industries to force-feed unproven ones.
- Ed Shann
Victoria’s mass outage boosts call to bury power lines
Energy expert Tony Wood says Victoria’s mass outage this week due to wild weather means underground transmission lines are worth considering.
- Gus McCubbing
‘Think big’: PM plans cash splash on green fund
The government is planning a “think big” multibillion-dollar initiative to try to compete with the US Inflation Reduction Act and similar schemes.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Energy
Critical minerals still subject to old rules of boom and bust
‘Future-facing’ battery metals are not immune to the ups and downs of supply and demand, and renewable energy will rely on gas to help in the energy transition.
- Jennifer Hewett
Solar giant warns West not to cut out China
The Longi executive says costs would double, job opportunities would be lost and green targets missed.
- Edward White
Teals, Greens taunt Labor on carbon tax proposal
Teal independent Allegra Spender said carbon pricing should be on the table along with scrapping the $8 billion of annual fossil fuel subsidies for off road vehicles users and other special interests.
- Ben Potter
Swedish renewables player OX2 shops Victorian solar farm
Its 118.8MW capacity (AC) is expected to power 55,700 homes when commercial operations commence in 2026.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Resurrect carbon price to fund superpower: Garnaut, Sims
Professor Garnaut will say reviving the carbon price is “not as impossible as passing on to our children and grandchildren lower standards of living than our own parents and grandparents left to us”.
- Ben Potter
- Analysis
- Energy transition
‘Too hard’: Britain’s Labour, Europe take scalpel to climate plans
Despite all the headlines, the big announcements in London and Brussels are more cosmetic surgery than major policy amputation.
- Hans van Leeuwen
