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Energy and Climate Summit 2024
The Energy and Climate Summit addresses the big questions about the management and pace of the country’s energy transition and explores the opportunities it presents in our journey towards a low-carbon economy
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The Australian Financial Review’s Energy and Climate Summit addresses the big questions about the management and pace of the country’s energy transition and explores the opportunities it presents in our journey towards a low-carbon economy.
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Energy and Climate Summit 2024
The Energy and Climate Summit addresses the big questions about the management and pace of the country’s energy transition and explores the opportunities it presents in our journey towards a low-carbon economy
Nuclear talk finally goes ahead after Holmes à Court criticism
The engineer whose nuclear speech was cancelled the day renewable energy advocate Simon Holmes à Court objected to it has finally delivered the talk.
- John Kehoe
BHP warns on ‘made in Australia’
BHP has warned the Albanese government that its flagship Future Made in Australia policy risks being undercut by the economy’s high costs, unproductive workplace laws, and uncompetitive tax system.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Gas
We need to clear the runway for new gas supply
Growing acceptance from governments of the role of gas in the energy transition is yet to translate into actions to clear the backlog of projects stuck in regulatory approval purgatory.
- Samantha McCulloch
Project Bravo: BNRG, Leeson seek backers for 30MW solar project
Three are located within the Gippsland Renewable Energy Zone, but all have a 22 kilovolt distribution line nearby, according to the flyer.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
July
Dutton slams energy ‘fanatics’ on both sides as he spruiks nuclear
Peter Dutton has seized on new data showing the east coast grid was heavily reliant on coal and gas during recent winter months due to a lack of wind and sun.
- Phillip Coorey
Cold snap confirms energy price surge, and need for gas and coal
Light winds through much of the June quarter drove a return to gas and coal power, and pushed up wholesale prices drastically in some states.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Updated
- Gas
Woodside says investors back $1.4b US buy, but some have questions
Meg O’Neill says no investors have questioned investing in US LNG, but Aware Super queried the impact on climate targets and shares fell further on Tuesday.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
New gas needed for energy transition, domestic supply: minister
The Albanese government has given the green light to gas exploration in the east and west coast. But safeguards have failed to placate green groups.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Climate balance sheet reveals a dire bottom line
Letters from readers on the climate debate; ANZ’s bonds scandal; energy wars; Fortescue job losses; remembering MH17 victims; and a post-election exodus from the US.
Green hydrogen not dead despite Fortescue retreat, says Bowen
State energy ministers have unanimously reiterated their opposition to Peter Dutton’s nuclear plans.
- Phillip Coorey
Energy CEOs urge industry not to quit hydrogen dream
Australian businesses need to be smarter and work harder to overcome the cost hurdles in hydrogen, which has a strong future in some industries, CEOs insist.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Don’t put all energy transition eggs in one green basket
The energy revolution is producing militant evangelists and sceptics of individual technologies. Andrew Forrest’s hydrogen retreat shows policymakers need to be more open-minded.
- The AFR View
Green hydrogen too ‘expensive and inefficient’: Finkel
Former chief scientist Alan Finkel – who devised Australia’s first clean hydrogen strategy – now says we are “unlikely to use hydrogen for storage of electricity”.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith, Peter Ker and Jessica Sier
Albanese sticks to hydrogen despite Fortescue retreat
Andrew Forrest ditching plans to produce 15 million tonnes of green hydrogen by 2030 has sparked questions over the government’s climate policies.
- Andrew Tillett and Brad Thompson
- Exclusive
- Construction
Downer EDI pitches in on flailing EnergyConnect construction
The troubles at the cable project are being closely watched because its failure would imperil the entire build-out of the transmission grid, sources say.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- Energy transition
It’s an energy race between the implausible and the impossible
Peter Dutton has come up with a nuclear-powered cost of living wedge to expose Labor’s overreach on renewables and sustainability.
- Matthew Warren
Queensland breaks ground on $5b transmission project
The CopperString project will eventually link the mining region of Mount Isa with the port city of Townsville via an 840-kilometre high-transmission line.
- Tess Bennett
Transmission ‘will get easier’ after EnergyConnect: Transgrid CEO
Brett Redman’s comments come as speculation mounts Transgrid will need to bring other contractors in to complete the delayed $2.3 billion transmission project.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Cable blowouts may keep SA gas plants on line
The closure of an AGL Energy gas plant near Adelaide is at risk as delays hit a key $2.3 billion electricity cable.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
HMC Capital chooses battery storage for first climate investment
David Di Pilla’s asset manager will pay up to $50 million for a controlling stake in StorEnergy, which is headed by a former Spark Infrastructure executive.
- Kylar Loussikian
Coal power on comeback trail as wind, solar falter
Electricity generation from coal has surged for the first time in nine years, wrecking emissions cuts and hammering home the disarray of Australia’s energy transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Renewables
Grok Ventures boss woos wealthy families for Sun Cable
The chief executive of Mike Cannon-Brookes’ private vehicle is plotting a pivot – opening it up to outside investors.
- Primrose Riordan
Why overseas money is pouring into Australian green energy
The country’s electricity generation sector is being radically reshaped, and there is hardly a household name among the big participants in solar, wind and batteries.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
RBA inflation target challenged by power prices
Other areas of the economy will need to offset the impact of higher than expected power prices to keep inflation within target, economists say.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Ronald Mizen
