David Leitch
If COAG gets behind AEMO's Integrated System Plan, instead of the NEG, Australia may yet manage the transition to a low-carbon economy in a way we can be proud...
Europe's changing energy profile as wind and solar take hold; lithium prices down on fears of over-supply; AGL weighed down by emissions profile.
NEG is largely a smokescreen designed to bury electricity policy under a motherhood blanket. The policy is supposed to endure for decades but its major design issues have to...
ACT Government
Australian Federal Government
Energy Markets
Governments
News & Commentary
Renewables
Will the NEG make the energy transition easier or harder?
The ESB needs to go back to the drawing board and have another go at its National Energy Guarantee. They doesn’t understand what a bad solution they have proposed.
NEG still looks like a poorly thought out policy; rooftop solar delivers for Queensland; and Infigen's nosebleed debt financing fee.
Origin is earning itself the right to grow by performing better, but the trick will be to sell the interest in APLNG in the next few years, and to...
All eyes on bond rates and the results from the country's biggest utilities, including AGL.
News & Commentary
Renewables
Solar
SolarReserve
SolarReserve still falling short at flagship solar tower project
SolarReserve's flagship solar tower and storage project is still falling short of design targets. Does it deserve public money?
Australian Federal Government
Energy Markets
Governments
News & Commentary
Renewables
A Snow(y) job: He who pays the piper calls the tune
One of our main immediate criticisms of Snowy Hydro's latest paper is its assumption that Snowy 2.0 is the only pumped hydro project capable of being developed in Australia.
Bond price jump may hit renewable energy projects; state Labor governments under threat; and debate shifts to dispatchable renewable energy.
