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High-voltage powerline projects spark mixed emotions across regional Victoria and NSW

Two major transmission line projects promise cleaner, more sustainable energy for Victoria and NSW. But some western Victorian locals fear the infrastructure will ruin the landscape and their lifestyle.

ABC News

Hey minister, leave that gas trigger alone – it may fire up a fight with foreign investors

With the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) warning consumers of huge price hikes ahead, further calls for the federal government to pull its so-called “gas trigger” seem inevitable.

The Conversation

Renewables the key to energy crisis: AEMO Report

The Australian Energy Market Operator has called for an accelerated shift to wind and solar, supported by batteries, to help drive down skyrocketing power bills.

Newcastle Herald

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Australians rush to switch retailers as electricity prices skyrocket

A record number of Australian households switched electricity providers in June as soaring energy prices collapsed retailers.

The New Daily

Vic demands urgent plan amid gas shortage

Energy Minister Lily D'Ambrosio has called on AEMO to ensure minimal storage levels are maintained at national gas facilities amid a looming crisis.

AAP

Energy market operator, AEMO, intervenes as Victoria's gas reserves fall

The Australian Energy Market Operator has triggered the gas supply guarantee to stave off a potential gas shortage in Victoria, the state's energy minister has said.

ABC News

Looming Vic gas limits threaten energy woe

Australia's energy regulator has warned Victoria is facing a gas shortage which could plunge the electricity market into a fresh crisis.

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Australia's power crunch: why is our energy-rich nation on the verge of blackouts?

Australia's facing some dark truths.

Newcastle Herald

McDonald Jones stadium concert plan isn't music to everyone's ears

The Matildas always draw good crowds when they play in Newcastle but they won't play here on a damaged playing surface.

Newcastle Herald

Australia's energy transformation is ramping up, but there are major challenges ahead

The Labor government has a plan to increase the share of renewable energy in the grid to 82 per cent by 2030, but many experts and investors say reaching that will not be possible without a major upgrade of the poles and wires that transport that power around the grid.

ABC News

AEMO's renewable energy roadmap ignores community stalemate, expert says

Amid delays caused by community resistance to major infrastructure projects, an energy policy expert says AEMO's plan to complete five projects in the next decade is a pipedream.

ABC News

Regulator reveals huge investment needed to reach net zero by 2050

Australia must invest at least $12.7 billion in the electricity grid as “urgently as possible” to push ahead the transition to net zero, AEMO says.

The New Daily

AEMO calls for urgent investment in key projects to shore up electricity supply

More than $12 billion of investment in new transmission lines should begin "as urgently as possible" to ensure electricity supply is secure in the coming decade, according to the Australian Energy Market Operator.

ABC News

What Australia’s power grid urgently needs for ‘once-in-a-century transformation’ away from fossil fuels

Most likely scenario to reach net zero by 2050 projects all coal-fired power plants exit by 2043, according to market operator

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SA company fined over power rules breach

A Federal Court judge has ordered the operator of South Australia's Tesla big battery to pay a $900,000 fine over breaches of the national electricity rules.

The Guardian - AU

Paying coal and gas plants to supply back-up energy a ‘retrograde step’, Clean Energy Council says

‘It’s the wrong policy debate at the wrong time,’ industry says of capacity mechanism

ABC News

Does Australia need Tasmania to become a multi-billion-dollar 'Battery of the Nation'?

As coal-fired power stations close down, there is a push for the renewables-rich state of Tasmania to become the "Battery of the Nation". The problem is, no one knows who will foot the multi-billion-dollar bill.

The Guardian - AU

Senior ministers to retire before Victoria’s election – as it happened

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UK inflation has hit a 40-year high. Here's what that means for Australia

Inflation is soaring to new highs in major global economies and Australia is not immune.

The Guardian - AU

Energy market operator to investigate breakdown that triggered suspension and energy crisis

Aemo says it ‘wants to understand comprehensively the lessons learned’, with trading to resume at 4am on Thursday

ABC News

Australian Energy Market Operator to end its intervention in east coast market

An unprecedented intervention in Australia's east coast energy market will be gradually removed over the next day, with authorities increasingly confident in the supply of wholesale electricity.

The Conversation

The national electricity market is a failed 1990s experiment. It's time the grid returned to public hands

A crisis, as the saying has it, combines danger and opportunity. The dangers of the current electricity crisis are obvious. The opportunity it presents is to end to the failed experiment of the national electricity market.

AAP

Energy market suspension to be lifted

The Australian Energy Market Operator has outlined a staged approach to restoring the national energy market following its intervention last week.

ABC News

Australian Energy Market Operator signals it will likely end its market intervention this week

The suspension of Australia's east coast energy market could be lifted as early as Thursday, but the market operator is warning the challenges managing supply and demand may continue.

The New Daily

In an energy crisis, every watt counts. So turning off your dishwasher can make a difference

Discussion has largely focused on the need to generate more energy. But there's another way to ease strain on the system – by using less energy.

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