AGL Archives - Renew Economy

Coal

AGL sees powerful opportunity to host data centres at coal and gas hubs
AGL names Bayswater, Loy Yang and Torrens Island as sites with all the attributes data centres are looking for – while offering the “major opportunity” of increased demand in return.
Derek Rose

Oct 1, 2026

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Coal

“They’re gone:” End of an era as Liddell coal plant chimneys demolished in spectacular explosion
Chimney stacks from shuttered Liddell coal plant come down in a series of spectacular explosions, highlighting the close of one era, and the start of another. With Video.
Giles Parkinson

May 26, 2026

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Solar

Cheap power and brave investors needed for home-grown solar poly-silicon industry, report finds
Demand for poly-silicon that is not made in China could be the backstop for an Australian industry built out of a shrinking coal region, a government report says.
Rachel Williamson

May 25, 2026

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Renewables

AGL eyes options for a 2 gigawatt plus wind energy portfolio after signing string of PPAs
AGL to create a new funding vehicle, using other people’s money, to develop its major wind projects, including auction winners in NSW and the CIS.
Giles Parkinson

Feb 11, 2026

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Solar

Flexible payments versus sun tax: Groundbreaking rooftop PV exports trial to continue through 2026
A groundbreaking trial to test an innovative alternative to rooftop solar export tariffs will run for another year and with double the number of participants.
Rachel Williamson

Dec 15, 2025

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Pumped Hydro

Lower cost batteries, and market changes sink proposed pumped hydro project in NSW
Pumped hydro has defeated another hopeful, this time with a global energy giant that has given up its dream of a project in NSW.
Rachel Williamson

Sep 18, 2025

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Storage

Australia’s biggest gas advocates are quietly swapping out peaking gas plans for big batteries
Big batteries are displacing plans for peaking gas generators, even those that are fully permitted, because they’re cheaper and faster to build.
Rachel Williamson

Aug 18, 2025

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Storage

AGL says batteries will be its new cash cow as coal fades in switch from baseload to grid flexibility
AGL is rushing to get more big batteries built “as quickly as we can”, because of their big market premiums and ability to offset falling coal and gas profits.
Giles Parkinson

Aug 13, 2025

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Smart Energy

Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered
The chiefs of AGL and EnergyAustralia say consumer energy resources are key to bringing down electricity prices, but only if orchestrated — by them.
Rachel Williamson

Jun 18, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Huge wind and battery project mulls smaller turbines, but still hopes for more grid access in REZ
Developers of huge wind and project still hopeful of more grid access in south-west REZ, as objectors doubt climate science and want to create independent state.
Rachel Williamson

Jun 17, 2025

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Policy & Planning

Huge wind and battery project headed to IPC after long-distance objectors force more hearings
Huge wind and battery project forced into new planning hearings because of long distance critics and despite no local objections.
Rachel Williamson

May 15, 2025

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Commentary

Poles and wires: If networks want to own batteries and control EVs, a little public disclosure would help
The owners of our poles and wires are keen to own batteries and control EVs. If they agree to more disclosure, they might generate more trust.
David Leitch

Mar 24, 2025

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