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Is utility-scale solar finally about to take off in Australia?
Australia should have longed been a leader in utility scale solar, but has been blocked by the fossil fuel industry and poor policy. Now there are signs that large scale solar is about to take off – both at the “mega” project level and in smaller, localised projects. -
AGL says 9GW of baseload fossil fuels no longer needed
AGL Energy says that 9,000MW of fossil fuel baseload capacity needs to be removed from Australia’s electricity market, because too much has been built and the economics are being undermined by rooftop solar and other factors. The question is how this is done. AGL also accuses rival utilities of shaping their arguments against renewables to protect their own investments. -
Brown coal power underwrites AGL’s ‘clean’ profit boost
AGL Energy’s decision to buy the nation’s biggest power station emitter has paid handsome financial dividends, despite falls in demand hitting its retail operations. Its wind farm portfolio, however, has overtaken its hydro capacity, and CEO Michael Fraser is still trying to make sense of the political landscape, and its impact on carbon and clean energy. -
AGL’s Fraser: We haven’t changed our stripes
The head of AGL Energy defends purchase of Loy Yang A, dismissing talk he is stuck between a brown rock and a green place. He says he remains a strong advocate of renewables and a carbon price, and comments on his rivals’ attacks on the RET, solar, and the lure of brown coal.
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