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Trusted information vital to fully electrify homes
One of many keys to Australia achieving net zero by 2050 lies in shifting households to electricity and eliminating gas, a move that’s already creating opportunities for energy suppliers and other businesses seeking to help create a sustainable future.
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Transition runs on innovation – or costs rise and confidence falls
Solar, wind and batteries are reshaping the grid, while industries are beginning to harness renewable gases and electrification to cut emissions.
How an AGL microgrid helped this orchard flourish
The company’s customer engagement strategy is not only about delivering technology but about fostering trust, responsiveness and long-term value.
The stumbling block to our energy ambitions
Ensuring we have the energy markets and systems capable of realising Australia’s energy transition ambitions will be critical to achieving them.
How an oil and gas decommissioning project rewrote the safety rules
Amplitude Energy’s work at the Basker, Manta and Gummy fields ‘pushed the boundaries of what’s been done in Australia before’.
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October 2025
ActewAGL’s electrification play beats expectations
The success of ActewAGL’s energy transition tool has exposed consumer’s power price pain.
Solar panels saved from the scrap heap sent to Africa
Venergy Solar is helping African communities overcome energy poverty.
This finance start-up is flipping the script on rural renewables
Getting local support for green projects in regional Australia is one of the thorniest problems of the energy transition. But RELA sees a commercial solution.
Kerry Schott: cutting to the chase on the energy transition
The recipient of the AFR Energy Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Award cites her explanations about the ins and outs of the transition as a career highlight.
Allegro Energy a winner with its ‘super water’
Renewable technology company Allegro Energy has won the Innovation challenger category of the AFR’s Energy Awards with its battery technology.
Energy NFP a ray of light in a dark world
SolarBuddy is the winner of this year’s Australian Financial Review Energy Awards in the Community Engagement category for its Illuminating Communities initiative.
October 2024
No plan B: Why we need to stick with the energy transition
Australia’s future depends on us getting the shift to a clean energy system right and political leaders who can focus on the end goal over cheap stunts.
Grant King: Energy fortune-teller has plenty more to offer
The former Origin Energy boss and former head of the Business Council has been recognised with the Lifetime Achievement award.
This tribe of mates is saving lives
The winner of the Wellbeing award trains workers to connect distressed colleagues to relevant services, aiming to reduce alarmingly high suicide rates in the energy sector.
This app helps you avoid power bill shock
Aurora Energy customers can see their electricity use in real time and decide the best way to be more efficient and cut costs.
Solar panels saved from the scrap heap
By 2027 Australia will be generating a million waste panels a year. ElecSome can put them to good use.
Innovators think big on solar-powered mansions
Australia’s energy entrepreneurs are cashing in on underserved segments of the market, as the winner of the Growth champion category shows.
How drones help power Australia’s energy transition
The winner of The Australian Financial Review Energy Award for Innovation had a tragic genesis. But Powerlink hopes it will show others the benefits of embracing change.
The microgrid delivering energy resilience to bushfire-prone community
Endeavour Energy has worked with government and residents to develop an $8 million battery scheme on the NSW south coast.
This company can build solar farms 10 times faster
The winner of the Innovation - challenger award, 5B, derives 30 per cent of its work from mining companies in remote locations.
September 2024
How this battery system can help the energy transition
The electricity grid is long on solar power and short on storage. This first of a kind battery service could be the solution.
Out of thin air: Solving the energy storage dilemma
Two first-of-a-kind technologies in Australia are firming up as options to crack the tough nut of energy storage that lasts much longer than batteries.
August 2024
Resurgent AGL to accelerate clean energy after profits surge
The giant electricity and gas supplier beat profit forecasts and inked $250 million of acquisitions to speed up growth in batteries and solar power.
July 2024
Origin Energy ups battery investments with $450m Eraring project
The second power storage system to be installed at the NSW Central Coast site will have more than double the duration of the first one.
How solar beat every forecast to win the renewables race
Solar power is on track to generate more electricity than all the world’s nuclear power plants in 2026, its gas-fired power plants in 2030 and its coal-fired ones in 2032.
