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PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... climate change and minimise their human and economic costs." The report recommended Australia improve incentives in electricity, heavy industry and transport - which together account for 79% of Australia's gross emissions - to support an efficient net ...

Capacity Investment Scheme supercharged for energy transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... more projects are established, as the latest expansion will support about $73 billion in investment in Australia's electricity sector. The proposition extends the initial expansion target of 32GW announced in November 2023. HESTA chief executive Debby ...

CEFC adds to electric vehicles portfolio

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... fleets, buses and trucks. It also provides network infrastructure for large-scale battery storage connected to the electricity grid and refurbishes batteries. CEFC head of infrastructure Julia Hinwood commented that the heavy truck sector is a central ...

Net zero more important than energy costs: Economists

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... building of required infrastructure. However, the research noted he was concerned about the prospect of the Federal Electricity Commission that would be required to build and run the reactors. "It is relevant to me that the private sector is willing ...

Australia's sustainable finance taxonomy launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... covers decarbonisation in the sectors of agriculture, minerals, materials and mining, manufacturing and industry, electricity generation and supply, transport, and construction and building. Other major financial institutions such as the Rabobank, NAB ...

AGL mulls sale of Tilt Renewables

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... Hostplus, TelstraSuper, MLC, and Brighter Super. Following a Power Purchase Agreement in 2023, AGL was to begin sourcing electricity from Tilt Renewables' Rye Park Wind Farm in Yass, New South Wales in April 2025. The wind farm was expected to be completed ...

Carbon tariffs on some imports urgently needed: Climate Energy Finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025  |  NEWS
... on our domestic momentum as we price in industrial carbon emissions via the Safeguard Mechanism and decarbonise our electricity system, creating a path to an Asian CBAM. Initially in economically advanced East Asia and Australia, a regional CBAM would ...

'Surreal', 'difficult' times for sustainable investors: RIAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... going to see almost 300 solar and storage factories at risk. It could result in a US$51 billion increase in consumer electricity costs due to infrastructure setbacks - and tens of thousands of jobs at risk," she said. On the positive side, Lettini is ...

Australia must address climate adaptation finance gap: Experts

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... quarter of last year, it was 46%," Buckley said. Some media outlets fearmonger that Australia will never get to 82% [of electricity consumption to be generated by renewable energy by 2030] and that "we should give up" and "stick to fossil fuels". Buckley ...

Google to power 'next generation' nuclear projects in the US

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025  |  NEWS
... Colbert said. "We look forward to working with Google to execute these projects and bring safe, carbon-free, baseload electricity to the grid." Elementl Power co-founder and president Ryan Mills added that the partnership represents a "significant" milestone ...