Today
APA suffers protest vote on pay as chairman warns on climate targets
Michael Fraser said energy policies need to be “realistic” to avoid losing public support for the transition as prices rise and the lights go out.
- 17 mins ago
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Electricity
Pay households and they will use energy wisely
If you offer money to householders to provide power at certain times or to reduce demand, they will happily do it – provided it isn’t just a pea and thimble trick.
- Tristan Edis
This Month
The green energy multimillionaires taking over the Young Rich List
US-based investor and Young Rich List debutant Gregory Green made an estimated $100 million after selling his share of a landfill gas developer.
- Michael Bailey
Smart ways to get the most out of your solar
Homeowners are using tips and tricks to shift as much of their power usage as possible to solar.
- Christopher Niesche
Solar boom unleashes surge of below-zero power prices
Wholesale electricity prices are going negative more often, underscoring the financial pressures on ageing coal-fired power plants.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Rio Tinto in solar farm deal with Forrest foes
Rio Tinto is looking to a traditional owner group at war with Andrew Forrest to supply renewable energy to its iron ore operations.
- Brad Thompson
NSW pumps $128m into community benefits for first green energy zone
Funds will flow early to projects in communities impacted by new transmission and renewable energy projects, in a bid to improve local support.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘No choice’: Origin deal faces mounting opposition
With Origin shares trading well above the offer price from the Brookfield consortium, it is in no one’s interest to support the deal, VanEck says.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Cranky Origin shareholders grill chairman on bid price
Dissatisfaction with the $18.7 billion takeover offer price has spilt over to small shareholders, who grilled chairman Scott Perkins at the AGM in Sydney.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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- Electric cars
High Court’s EV decision threatens state taxes
Lawyers say the ramifications of the decision are ‘monstrous’ and could trigger a shake-up in federal-state relations.
- Michael Pelly
She wanted to do the right thing on renewables – but found a $6b bonus
Yackandandah nurse Donna Jones volunteered for Project Edge to support the grid’s transition from coal power. She discovered there were far more benefits.
- Ben Potter
- Exclusive
- Energy transition
Aware Super has $2b green plan to dodge energy grid logjam
The pension fund is backing a small-scale solar power and storage development venture that intends to avoid the roadblocks in the slow transmission build-out.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘The capital is there.’ So what’s stalling the energy transition?
Problems around new transmission means Australia may fall short of its 2030 targets, but political will, capital and renewable resources remain strong drivers for the transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Mark Ludlow
‘Cottage industry’: Gurus say nuclear no match for solar energy
Australia’s much-garlanded ‘fathers of photovoltaics’, Martin Green and Andrew Blakers, say solar’s growth is about to sweep aside all its energy rivals.
- Hans van Leeuwen
ACCC argument to back Origin takeover is flimsy, say analysts
The regulator says although the deal is likely to reduce competition, that is outweighed by the greater benefit to the public from an accelerated energy transition.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
How Vinnies cracked rooftop solar’s landlord problem
At Vinnies’ Dandenong South warehouse, 230 solar panels have slashed the non-profit’s power bill from $1800 a month to $300.
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- Ben Potter
Carlyle-backed Amp puts renewables portfolio on the block via BofA
Project Foster: Canadian renewable energy developer Amp Energy has put its portfolio of assets in New South Wales and South Australia up for sale.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
‘Get your candles’: energy experts are ‘terrified’ about this summer
A summer of blackouts has emerged as a real risk from Australia’s creaking power system, increasing the likelihood of extra government intervention.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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- Mergers & acquisitions
ACCC cites energy transition in approving Origin’s $18.7b takeover
A surge in Origin’s shares after its suitors won competition approval for their takeover offer has added further pressure for a bump-up in the offer price.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
One landowner can’t stop the energy transition: TransGrid CEO
TransGrid is prepared to compulsorily acquire properties along the route of the proposed 360-kilometre HumeLink in southern NSW if landowners don’t agree to sell.
- Jenny Wiggins
