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AGL makes $3 billion bet on limited climate action
AGL buys Loy Yang A brown coal generator, swapping its moniker for being the cleanest utility to the cheapest. After spending more than five years arguing that investing in green energy was the best way to prepare for a carbon price, AGL proposes to buy the nation’s biggest emitter.6 -
Our ‘cheap’ grid is letting us down: That’s not smart
If the NEM hadn’t focused so hard on being lowest cost, Australia’s power supply might not be as expensive as it is now. A new report has found that two critical decisions in particular – to remove environmental and social benefits from the list of considerations for the grid’s operator and regulator – have backfired. -
Can the Clever Country build smart, green cities?
Australia has an opportunity to lead the world in green city innovation, according to European industrial giant Siemens. Our cities have all the right ingredients – crowded, congested, and with ageing infrastructure. But are we capable of making smart decisions? -
The end of baseload? It may come sooner than you think
One of the principal architects of Germany’s push into renewable energy technologies believes that his country could achieve 100 per cent renewables in its electricity sector by 2030 – and may do it quicker. The rest of the world could follow soon after – at a cost of just $100 trillion, about half the cost of not doing it.
