AGL Energy
Power-hungry data centres are booming in Australia. Can the grid cope?
An explosion in the number of data centres in Melbourne and Sydney, which will use vast amounts of electricity, is looming as a new test for the grid.
- by Nick Toscano
Latest
AGL coal sites to house green manufacturing, not nuclear
Australia’s largest power supplier is moving ahead with its plans to turn its old coal sites into low-carbon industrial energy hubs, despite Peter Dutton’s push for them to host nuclear.
- by Nick Toscano
AGL invests in new tech to help cut customers’ power prices
The power giant will be able to manage and trade the energy customers generate from solar panels and batteries at home.
- by Simon Johanson
Can you really turn your house into a power plant?
Virtual power plant programs, and the growing number of retail offers being built around them, are coming at a critical moment in the energy transition.
- by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Renewables
Not everyone will celebrate AGL’s improved profit outlook
Amid a cost-of-living crisis, energy companies have large targets on their backs, along with supermarkets, banks and airlines.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Huge offshore wind turbines to power AGL’s shift from coal
AGL wants to build huge turbines off Victoria’s coast that could bring vast amounts of wind power to customers and help replace its coal-fired power plants.
- by Nick Toscano
Power giants fear green scheme will shut out crucial projects
Pumped hydro projects are at risk of missing out on contracts under the federal government’s green energy financing scheme, despite warnings they are critically needed.
- by Nick Toscano
Inside the backlash facing Australia’s biggest energy company
Woodside shareholders are about to decide if the company is doing enough to diversify revenue away from fossil fuels as warnings intensify about emissions heating the planet.
- by Nick Toscano
Renewable energy boost turns up heat on existing power plants
The energy industry is warning greater co-ordination is needed to ensure new supplies are built in time for more coal-fired power plant closures.
- by Nick Toscano
Opinion
Energy
Labor has a broken energy fix. The Libs don’t have one at all – yet
Australia can bid for solar cell factories, but if we lack the power to run them, the hope is forlorn.
- by Peter Hartcher
AGL and Cannon-Brookes want to make solar panels at former coal power station
AGL will partner with a start-up backed by its biggest shareholder, Mike Cannon-Brookes, to assess building a first-of-its-kind solar panel factory in the NSW Upper Hunter region.
- by Nick Toscano