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Electrification

Electrification: AGL offers platform to help customers cost EVs, solar, heat pumps, batteries and cooktops
AGL launches website that allows consumers to cost solar, batteries, EVs and heat pumps.
Rachel Williamson

Mar 21, 2024

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Renewables

AGL plans huge 2GW, 2,000 MWh wind, solar and battery hub in NSW
AGL – still the country’s biggest coal generator and polluter – unveils plans for a new joint venture in south-west NSW that would include 1.5 GW of wind and solar and a giant four hour battery.
Giles Parkinson

Mar 4, 2024

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Battery

AGL signs up battery recycling innovator that avoids “black mass” for Hunter hub
AGL signs deal with Australian start-up that says it can recycle batteries without creating a sludge known as “black mass”
Rachel Williamson

Dec 6, 2023

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Wind energy

NBN signs six year off-take deal with Macarthur wind farm
NBN signs deal to take around 10 per cent of the output from the Macarthur wind farm as it moves towards 100 per cent renewable supply.
Rachel Williamson

Oct 11, 2023

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AGL says Australia must build its own wind and solar components as costs rise, ports choked
AGL COO urges governments to revive local manufacturing to prevent ports being choked with energy parts imports, and cited rising costs in wind energy and battery storage.
Rachel Williamson

Jun 21, 2023

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Coal

Victoria brown hydrogen project in Greens’ sights in push for coal ban
The state Greens want to ban all coal activities by 2030 – including brown hydrogen production – and enshrine the prohibition in the constitution.
Rachel Williamson

May 31, 2023

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Battery

NSW network joins rush to batteries to soak up solar, save on poles and wires
Essential Energy teams with AGL to install a 2MWh battery in the rooftop solar-heavy Port Macquarie region.
Rachel Williamson

Feb 6, 2023

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Gas

Decline of baseload: AGL mothballs gas unit as it prepares first big battery
AGL to mothball unit at Torrens B gas plant, as the growth of lower cost renewables and storage push ageing gas plants out of the market.
Michael Mazengarb & Giles Parkinson

Jul 7, 2021

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Policy & Planning

Greenpeace claims legal win against AGL over “Australia’s Greatest Liability” campaign
Federal Court rules in favour of Greenpeace, finding the group can use AGL logo and branding in ‘parody’ campaigns.
Michael Mazengarb

Jun 9, 2021

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Institutions

AGL taps RayGen to build dispatchable “solar hydro” plant at Liddell
AGL to tap RayGen’s innovative concentrating solar technology for a project that could include an installation at the site of the Liddell coal plant.
Michael Mazengarb

Jun 8, 2021

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