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Renewables are cheapest: CSIRO GenCost report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  MONDAY, 22 DEC 2025  |  NEWS
... economy. In meeting current mandated guidelines of net zero by 2050, the research indicated that the efficient electricity sector emissions intensity will need to register at 0.02-0.05 CO2 equivalents (tCO₂e) per MWh. Currently recorded at 0.5tCO₂e/MWh ...

Grattan calls for expanding Safeguard Mechanism to electricity sector

RIDDHIMA TALWANI  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2025  |  NEWS
... expansion of the Safeguard Mechanism, the federal government policy constraining emissions by big industry, to the electricity sector. The new report, Bills down, emissions down: A practical path to net-zero electricity, noted that Australia will find ...

PC outlines key reforms to boost clean energy investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2025  |  NEWS
... emissions - to support an efficient net zero transformation. The report called for market-based incentives in the electricity sector to replace the Renewable Energy Target and the Capacity Investment Scheme, neither of which will support new investment ...

Capacity Investment Scheme supercharged for energy transition

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025  |  NEWS
... 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 Blakey ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... billion in investment between now and 2050. The report identifies six areas for action - a carbon budget for the electricity sector; national coordination of the transition to accelerate coal powered generation closures and renewables roll out; investment ...

$500bn investment needed to decarbonise NEM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... $421 billion in investment is needed, and action centres around six priority areas: a carbon budget for the electricity sector; national coordination of the transition to accelerate coal powered generation closures and renewables roll out; investment ...

CEFC allocated additional $8.6 billion in budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2022  |  NEWS
... draw on this new capital to invest in priority grid-related projects to fast-track the decarbonisation of the electricity sector and secure a strong and stable clean energy supply. "The CEFC has already played a significant part in Australia's clean ...

Climate change is changing the outlook for energy utilities

KIRSTY MACKAY-FISHER  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
Australia's electricity sector is the nation's single largest source of greenhouse gas pollution, accounting for about a third of our total greenhouse gas emissions. Extreme weather events related to climate change such as prolonged drought, bushfires ...

Low-cost, high-reliability road to renewable energy: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... in each sector are reduced at lowest cost, but if that is out of reach politically, then decarbonising the electricity sector is one avenue to reducing overall emissions in Australia. Wood noted that in addition to the price of technologies such as hydrogen ...

Economist urges drastic action on climate change policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... national climate change policy. "We are perhaps on track to meet our 2030 targets, but we are doing it based on electricity sector alone," Wood said in her presentation, which addressed a host of other risks to Australia's economy in the post-COVID-19 ...
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