Yesterday
Brookfield in advanced talks to buy Twiggy-backed Windlab
Both shareholders are active investors in renewables and keen to show it’s possible to make a motza in green energy.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
This Month
John Laing shops interest in Sunraysia solar farm; $400m deal mooted
Early feedback suggests the asset may fetch a $400 million price-tag, sources told this column.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Analysis
- Critical minerals
China-US clean energy trade war could get dirty
History suggests Beijing will reply in kind and lift tariffs on a range of American exports, which will raise the stakes once again in their long-running tit-for-tat tussle.
- Jessica Sier
Critics say Aussies can’t make cheap solar panels. This start-up says they’re wrong
The brains behind SunDrive say Australia has the material, the best resources, and even national security reasons, for keeping solar panel expertise here.
- Ben Potter
No more buzz – hydrogen is finally trying to get real
At the World Hydrogen Summit this year, vaulting ambition began giving way to pragmatism and a paring back of priorities.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Can Australia become a green energy superpower? Five charts that say yes
The Albanese government is taking a big punt on its signature Future Made in Australia policy, betting $24.3 billion over 10 years in Tuesday’s budget – these charts show why.
- Ronald Mizen
Hydrogen credit could blow its $6.7b budget
Sunshine Hydro chairman Michael Myer says international investment could mean the cost of the budget measure blows out, but is still worth the benefits.
- Ben Potter
Big four, Japanese banks circle GPG Renewables’ $1.6b refinancing
Sources said GPG is in advanced discussions with several banks to come in on a $1.1 billion refinancing of its existing facilities.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
The game changer on battery-making is still to come
The founder of Australia’s only lithium-ion battery-maker says a $523 million budget boost will help underwrite a boom in critical minerals.
- Ben Potter
Labor pumps $630m into green jobs
Labor will spend more than $630 million to help secure workers for its signature Made in Australia agenda.
- Tom McIlroy
Labor’s $24b green energy superpower bet
The government has made a multi-billion dollar bet on renewable energy powered by hydrogen, critical minerals processing and commodity exports.
- Ben Potter
Arena to receive $5.1b to back renewable energy
A big winner is the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, a body threatened with abolition a decade ago.
- Ben Potter
The winners and losers in the federal budget
Green business, public servants, renters and taxpayers are budget winners while consultants, the Reserve Bank and tax cheats do poorly.
- Nick Bonyhady, Maxim Shanahan and Campbell Kwan
- Opinion
- Federal budget
Chalmers’ latest effort basks in a green glow
Sit back and behold Jim Chalmers’ big green Australian budget. But making forecasts is easy, and will voters buy the story?
- Andrew Clark
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Critics wrong about our clean energy ‘superpower’ plan picking winners
We share concerns about arbitrary government intervention, but our carbon pricing model is designed to minimise those risks.
- Ross Garnaut and Rod Sims
France’s Engie powers up for partner search at Victorian solar farm
Engie has shortlisted a blue-chip lender lineup, including ANZ Group, BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank, to stump up Goorambat’s debt financing.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Analysis
- Energy transition
What was Origin Energy boss Frank Calabria really doing in London?
He flew halfway round the world to hold a strategy day for UK upstart Octopus Energy. The message for Origin shareholders and analysts: take another look.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Energy funding chopped under weight of Victoria’s debt
Experts say this week’s state budget shows the Victorian government has prioritised major transport projects over the energy transition.
- Gus McCubbing
The world’s wiliest climate warrior? It’s not who you think
International Energy Agency boss Fatih Birol, a lifelong bureaucrat with roots in the oil industry, has made the net zero transition a personal mission.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
Australia doesn’t need nukes: International Energy Agency boss
Global energy tsar Fatih Birol says Australia should play to its strengths in renewables, and there should be less emotion and politics in energy discussions.
- Hans van Leeuwen