The Sydney Morning Herald logo

AGL Energy

Advertisement
South Australia’s renewables transformation is world-leading.

The SA miracle: How one Australian state leads the world on renewables

Hard work and “really good wind” have helped South Australia become a world leader on renewables. But the state is determined to go further.

  • Nick O'Malley and Bianca Hall

Latest

he federal government has selected sites for the first wind farms off the Gippsland coast. The projects could one day resemble this Danish wind farm.

SEC fires up first public power asset since ’90s, but wind plans hit as AGL scraps Gippsland project

AGL-backed Gippsland Skies consortium is the third joint venture to walk away from early-stage studies for an offshore wind farm in Victoria.

  • Kieran Rooney and Nick Toscano
Mike Cannon-Brookes led a campaign fast-track the closures of AGL’s polluting coal-fired power stations.

Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes reignites climate feud with Australia’s biggest emitter

Cannon-Brookes has renewed his push for power giant AGL to do more to combat climate change, rejecting its current plans as dangerously inadequate.

  • Nick Toscano
The transport sector is Australia’s third-largest source of greenhouse gases, producing 17.5 per cent of emissions.

Turning your EV into a giant battery is a step closer

Automakers are exploring how batteries in electric cars can be used to top up Australia’s grid at critical times and earn bill credits for their owners.

  • Nick Toscano
Reddit soared on its Wall Street debut.

ASX declines as CBA and AGL shares slump; Miners, Tyro advance

The Australian sharemarket closed lower after the rally in the nation’s largest bank ran out of steam and the biggest power generator was tanking following underwhelming results.

  • Staff writers
AGL CEO Damien Nicks at the site of the Torrens battery, which is now fully operational.

Australia’s top polluter bets on batteries as fossil fuel costs climb

One of the nation’s biggest power companies is accelerating investments in giant batteries as it seeks to blunt higher costs from coal and gas plants.

  • Nick Toscano
Advertisement
Eastwood apartment owners Caroline and Graeme Edwards

Home batteries for renters? A solution could be coming soon

Electricity retailers say they could plug a gap in the clean energy shift and balance rewards for renters and home owners.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
The costs of building new large energy projects need to be reined in to lift flagging productivity, Ai Group says.

The clean energy era is arriving. Is your power company ready?

As more Australians turn to solar panels and batteries to cut their reliance on the grid, energy retailers are racing to reinvent themselves.

  • Nick Toscano
Climate activism and shareholder unrest is pushing power giants like AGL to speed up the shift to renewable energy.

Coal plant closures can’t wait for nuclear power, warns AGL

Australia’s biggest power supplier says there is no way its coal plants can keep operating long enough for Peter Dutton to replace them with nuclear reactors.

  • Nick Toscano
AGL is one of Australia’s largest power and gas suppliers.

Energy giant AGL fined a record $25m for wrongly taking welfare money

AGL, one of the nation’s biggest energy retailers, has been dealt a record fine of $25 million for wrongly taking money from hundreds of welfare recipients.

  • Nick Toscano