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Mar. 03, 2022

EnergyAustralia looks at partial sale options

EnergyAustralia is understood to have been exploring two options for a partial sale.
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Mar. 03, 2022

Viva to build Australia’s first public hydrogen-refuelling station

Viva Energy will build Australia’s first public hydrogen refuelling station at its Geelong refinery site in a move aimed at capitalising on the transport and haulage industry’s expected transition to zero emission vehicles.
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Mar. 03, 2022

Shell grows green power business with Australian wind farms deal

Global energy giant Shell is continuing its push deeper into Australia’s power market with a deal to buy a significant stake in wind-farm developer WestWind.
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Mar. 03, 2022

Record coal prices tipped to rise further on Ukraine conflict

Yancoal chief executive David Moult says his Asian customers are scrambling to find alternative supplies to replace Russian coal, and he expects the military conflict in Ukraine will extend the period of extremely high coal prices.
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Mar. 03, 2022

Eraring effect on future prices is a damning indictment of transmission planning

Australia’s wholesale electricity market continues to see transmission constraints stuffing up prices.
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Feb. 17, 2022

Tasmania terminates contract with Basslink, as legal fight continues

The Tasmanian government has assured that the state’s energy security is “stronger than ever” after effectively binning its commercial contract with the company that operates the Basslink undersea cable that links Tasmania’s grid to the Australian mainland.
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Feb. 17, 2022

A hot Kurri Kurri: why Labor’s fossil proposal is even worse than the Coalition’s

The Kurri Kurri gas plant proposal. No financial case, no necessity, a billion-dollar price tag, infrastructure unfit for purpose, a nearby gas plant that does the same job and faces the rising affordability of batteries. Callum Foote reports on why Labor’s proposal may be even worse than the Coalition’s.
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Feb. 17, 2022

Pace of power grid transition in dispute

The owner of the Vales Point coal power generator in NSW has joined AGL Energy in voicing doubt whether the rapid exit of coal power envisaged by the Australian Energy Market Operator is feasible without putting at risk security of supply.
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Feb. 17, 2022

NSW lures $100bn renewable energy bonanza as transition accelerates

NSW has attracted $100bn worth of potential investment in a renewables zone located in the heart of coal country, the latest sign that financiers are flocking to clean energy projects as a transition away from the fossil fuel accelerates.
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Feb. 17, 2022

AGL, EA restructures put Origin Energy in crosshairs

Chalk it up as the year for diversified utilities deals. Ten years after the last big round of old world electricity deals – Origin buying Eraring Energy, AGL acquiring MacGen – the sector’s alive with fresh hopes of corporate activity.