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afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey |Ryan Cropp
The Allan government has rolled back proposals to force Victorian households and businesses to replace their gas appliances with electric ones, and will reserve domestic gas for local industry, in a major policy shift endorsed by cabinet.
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1 week ago | 
afr.com | Sumeyya Ilanbey |Ryan Cropp
The boss of the country’s largest power and gas retailer says it spends up to $25 million a year dealing with compliance and regulation costs that inevitably are passed on in part to consumers. The comments from AGL Energy chief executive Damien Nicks signal emerging tensions between electricity suppliers and Federal Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, who has committed to changing the household electricity pricing rules to give consumers a better deal. Loading...
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Ryan Cropp |Phillip Coorey
Jun 6, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Tomago aluminium smelter, the nation’s largest electricity user, is in urgent talks to secure billions of dollars in support from the NSW and federal governments to save it from collapse due to crippling energy costs.
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Patrick Durkin |Ryan Cropp
Jun 6, 2025 – 3.54pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Victorian Energy Minister Lily D’Ambrosio admits the state government will know the total cost of its multibillion-dollar renewable energy plan only once all the contracts involved are signed over the coming years.
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3 weeks ago | 
afr.com | Ryan Cropp |Patrick Durkin
Jun 1, 2025 – 3.37pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The total cost to households and businesses for the upgrade to Victoria’s electricity grid, required to support the shift to renewable energy, will be more than four times the $4.3 billion figure set out in a transition road map unveiled last month.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Tom Rabe |Ryan Cropp
May 28, 2025 – 1.17pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A proposal to give a major Indigenous site in the Pilbara a World Heritage listing is unlikely to proceed after the UN agency responsible for the decision said any new industrial development would make it impossible.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Tom Rabe |Jesinta Burton |Ryan Cropp
Tom Rabe, Jesinta Burton and Ryan CroppMay 27, 2025 – 10.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Governments should admit transition away from fossil fuels is taking longer than expected and unlock more supply if they want to keep prices from spiking and wean Asia off coal-fired generation, the CEOs of the country’s two largest gas companies have said.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Lucy Slade |Ryan Cropp |Tom Rabe
May 27, 2025 – 7.16am or Subscribe to save article3 mins ago – 7.16AMChina comes calling in debts of developing nationsDeveloping nations, including those in the Pacific, will pay China $34 billion this year as Beijing comes calling for repayments on project funding. China is now “the world’s largest single destination for developing country debt payments” and outstripping the whole of the West, says a new report shows from Australian think tank The Lowy Institute.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Ryan Cropp |Tom Rabe
May 26, 2025 – 5.37pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? The federal government is poised to sign off on an extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas development after Anthony Albanese said the transition to renewable energy could not proceed without gas as a back-up.
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1 month ago | 
afr.com | Ryan Cropp |Patrick Durkin
May 16, 2025 – 6.37pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Victoria’s opposition has warned that an estimated $4 billion plan to construct seven new renewable energy zones across the state could double to more than $8 billion, as the Allan government unveiled a 15-year road map to replace coal-fired power generators.
