News
South Australia’s record-breaking temperatures have reignited the political battle over the state’s electricity grid, after the diesel generators purchased by the previous Labor Government were brought online by the market operator to meet high demand.
Opinion
South Australia is the perfect place to introduce changes to electricity market rules to give consumers a greater capacity to save on their energy bills by voluntarily “switching off”, writes Ben Oquist.
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Australia’s business community is furious the National Energy Guarantee has been effectively dumped, along with a pledge to legislate a cut to emissions in the electricity sector.
Malcolm Turnbull has retreated from plans to legislate climate change targets as he tries to fend off an internal revolt over the National Energy Guarantee.
A “big stick” will be taken to energy companies in a bid to force immediate price reductions and win Malcolm Turnbull support for his national energy plan.
Billionaire industrialist Sanjeev Gupta has launched a $1 billion, one-gigawatt renewable energy plan based in South Australia’s mid-north that he says will lead Australian industry’s transition to more competitive power.
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