Tag: updates

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. The Queensland Government released their energy roadmap for 2025.
2. The Australian Government announced the winners of the CIS tender 4, choosing 20 projects totalling 6.6GW.
3. The Queensland government is setting up a $400m energy investment fund.
4. The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) made a final determination to not implement a new real-time market for inertia.
5. AEMC launches a package of work to ensure the transmission electricity planning framework remains fit for purpose.
6. Synergy apologises after overcharging customers $40 million.
7. Bell Bay Aluminium is struggling to secure a 10-year power supply deal with Hydro Tasmania.
8. Podcast of the week: Bloomberg chat about the upcoming forecasted cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere and how this impacts gas supply.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. Rio Tinto has told workers the Gladstone Power Station could retire early. The station, which is Queensland’s largest and oldest coal-fired power station, was scheduled to close in 2035, but could now close in 2029.
2. Europe’s day ahead electricity market switched to 15-minute trading intervals.
3. Alcoa has confirmed it is permanently closing its Kwinana Alumina Refinery.
4. New Zealand Government released their Energy Package.
5. The ACCC released their Gas inquiry September 2025 interim report.
6. Normanton Solar Farm has switched off its panels due to higher costs.
7. Snowy Hydro has confirmed it will need to acquire more funds to deliver the Snowy 2.0 renewable energy project, as costs continue to spiral beyond $12 billion.
8. EnergyCo has revised proposed transmission line routes for the New England renewable energy zone.
9. The AEC chats about Nuclear Fusion and recent deals.
10. Podcast of the week: Let Me Sum Up chat about Australia’s new 2035 emissions target.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. China has committed to cutting emissions by 10 per cent by 2035.
2. Australia’s first 8-hour LDES battery energy storage system registered with AEMO.
3. More than a dozen turbines have been temporarily shut down after a blade snapped at a NSW Central West wind farm during a storm.
4. 12-month V2G trial in Exmouth proves promising.
5. Neoen and BHP sign a 70 MW renewable energy baseload contract in South Australia.
6. Podcast of the week: Switched On chat about data centres and copper demand.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. Australia’s 2035 emissions target has been announced, to reduce emissions by 62–70% below 2005 levels by 2035 with a shoutout to Endgame’s modelling in Treasury’s report.
2. The outcomes of CIS Tender 3 – NEM Dispatchable – have been announced.
3. Energy Policy WA and Western Power, have developed the South West Interconnected System Transmission Plan.
4. The federal government will invest $1.1bn to drive local production of low-carbon liquid fuels.
5. AEMO has released Reserve Capacity for the 2027-28 Capacity Year in the WEM.
6. The Independent Planning Commission of NSW has knocked back an application to convert a coal-fired power station to a biomass plant.
7. One of Queensland’s biggest coal miners will cut about 750 jobs across its operations.
8. The AER is investigating Transgrid’s System Strength Requirement in NSW RIT-T due to a dispute from the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS).
9. Podcast of the week: Bloomberg in Switched On chat about global investment in clean energy.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. Gas consumption in eastern Australia continues to fall, down almost 30% since its peak in FY2012-13.
2. The Government stamps the final approval for Woodside’s North West Shelf extension to 2070.
3. OECD chief Mathias Cormann urges Australians to keep open mind about nuclear power amid climate target debate.
4. BHP cancels plans to build 50MW and 40MWh battery due to budget cuts.
5. Residents of O’Connell fear the transportation of wind turbines could damage more than 100 trees planted as a World War I Anzac memorial.
6. ARENA backs truck charging hub and drone inspections for solar.
7. The Federal Government’s Cheaper Home Batteries program has seen 50,000 batteries installed.
8. Podcast of the week: Let Me Sum Up chat about 2035 targets and Woodside’s success in WA.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. Queensland reached a new minimum demand record at 2,790 MW.
2. The CEFC has increased funding for Marinus Link, totalling $3.8 billion.
3. ARENA opened funding for its second Solar Sunshot Round.
4. Technical issues and delays in the Western Australian battery scheme.
5. The green hydrogen hype is hurdling.
6. Tasmania’s solar scheme ends early due to funds being exhausted.
7. Podcast of the week: The Catalyst talks about data centre flexibility.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. The AER released their report on the state of the energy market in 2025.
2. Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
3. European companies awarded preliminary feasibility licences for WA offshore wind farm.
4. The Powering Skills Organisation identifies a shortfall of 42,000 workers who are needed for the energy transition.
5. Robbins Island wind farm off Tasmania gets environmental approval after years of delays.
6. Data centres could use the equivalent of a quarter of Sydney’s current annual drinking water supply within a decade.
7. Transgrid completed construction on the Buronga substation, which is the largest in Southern Hemisphere and is required for Energy Connect.
8. The only electricity provider in PNG is more than $1.5 billion in debt and trading while insolvent.
9. Podcast of the week: Switched On chat about carbon capture.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. AEMO released the NEM Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO) for 2025.
2. AGL considering State Government request to keep Torrens Island open for two more years.
3. Cost of Victoria’s renewable energy transmission plan projected to double.
4. Offshore wind company, Novocastrian, pulls out of $10 billion Hunter project.
5. The ACCC will investigate CHOICE complaint on energy plans that potentially mislead consumers about savings.
6. Podcast of the week: Let Me Sum Up chat about the Productivity Commission’s report, investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero Transformation.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. The ABC discusses China’s renewable energy journey.
2. AEMO Services releases the Investment Infrastructure Objectives Report and for the first time the NSW Generation Investment Outlook.
3. Elon Musk is gearing up to launch a household electricity supplier in Great Britain in the coming months.
4. Investment in new renewable energy projects is flowing at less than half the pace required to meet Labor’s clean energy targets and no onshore wind farms have received a financial commitment in 2025.*
5. Podcast of the week: AEMO on Air chat about the latest Quarterly Energy Dynamics (QED) report.

*Could be behind a pay wall.

In this Weekly Dispatch:

1. National Electricity Market wholesale market settings review draft report has been published.
2. The Productivity Commission released an interim report on Investing in cheaper, cleaner energy and the net zero transformation.
3. Waratah Super Battery Project begins partial operation, operating at 350MW.
4. Solstice Energy to cut gas supply to 10 regional Victorian towns by the end of 2026.
5. DCCEEW released a Market brief on the 2025 Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) tenders.
6. Podcast of the week:  Richard Andy talks about the Productivity Commission’s new report with a productivity commissioner.