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The CIS tender clock: what it shuts out, and who it favours Policy & Markets

The CIS tender clock: what it shuts out, and who it favours

32 gigawatts. That's the target capacity the Commonwealth's Capacity Investment Scheme is meant to underwrite by 2030, split roughly across dispatchable storage and renewables, and the tender rounds run so…

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The Consumer Energy Resources roadmap: what it means on your roof
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The Consumer Energy Resources roadmap: what it means on your roof

Three export limit changes in four years on the same switchboard. That's what a client in Pascoe Vale…

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WA’s SWIS grid: the island nobody can send power to
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WA’s SWIS grid: the island nobody can send power to

Perth recorded an operational minimum demand on its grid last spring that would have been unthinkable a decade…

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Fixed-bottom versus floating offshore wind: why depth decides
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Fixed-bottom versus floating offshore wind: why depth decides

Stand on the breakwater at Port Kembla on a clear morning and you can just about picture it:…

By Callum Hayes · 15 Oct 2026
Grid-forming inverters: why the grid suddenly needs them
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Grid-forming inverters: why the grid suddenly needs them

Two hundred milliseconds. That's roughly how long a weak part of the grid has to arrest a fault…

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Gas peakers versus big batteries: the firming maths in 2026
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Gas peakers versus big batteries: the firming maths in 2026

I spent a wet Tuesday last month at a community consultation session in the Hunter, where a council…

By Anjali Rao · 14 Oct 2026
Coal exits versus replacement builds: who’s actually ahead
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Coal exits versus replacement builds: who’s actually ahead

Four gigawatts. That's roughly the scheduled coal capacity due to leave the NEM between now and 2030 across…

By Marcus Wren · 13 Oct 2026

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Marinus Link: the cable Battery of the Nation can’t do without
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Marinus Link: the cable Battery of the Nation can’t do without

Two cables, 1500 megawatts combined, and a price tag that has roughly doubled since the project was first…

By Anjali Rao · 18 Oct 2026
Genex Power under J-Power: what the Kidston bet looks like now
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Genex Power under J-Power: what the Kidston bet looks like now

Drive the gravel road into the old Kidston gold mine in north Queensland and you come over a…

By Anjali Rao · 12 Oct 2026
Santos at the centre of the east-coast gas standoff
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Santos at the centre of the east-coast gas standoff

Moomba's carbon capture plant injected its millionth tonne of CO2 sometime around the middle of this year, give…

By Tom Fitzgerald · 11 Oct 2026

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The Consumer Energy Resources roadmap: what it means on your roof
Solar Power

The Consumer Energy Resources roadmap: what it means on your roof

Three export limit changes in four years on the same switchboard. That's what a client in Pascoe Vale…

By Priya Nair · 16 Oct 2026
Home battery payback: does it stack up yet
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Home battery payback: does it stack up yet

I had a client in Reservoir last month pull out a quote with a 14-year payback on a…

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By Priya Nair · 3 Oct 2026

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Marinus Link: the cable Battery of the Nation can’t do without
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Marinus Link: the cable Battery of the Nation can’t do without

Two cables, 1500 megawatts combined, and a price tag that has roughly doubled since the project was first…

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WA’s SWIS grid: the island nobody can send power to
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WA’s SWIS grid: the island nobody can send power to

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By Anjali Rao · 16 Oct 2026
Grid-forming inverters: why the grid suddenly needs them
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Grid-forming inverters: why the grid suddenly needs them

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By Anjali Rao · 14 Oct 2026

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The CIS tender clock: what it shuts out, and who it favours
Policy & Markets

The CIS tender clock: what it shuts out, and who it favours

32 gigawatts. That's the target capacity the Commonwealth's Capacity Investment Scheme is meant to underwrite by 2030, split…

By Marcus Wren · 18 Oct 2026
The Safeguard Mechanism’s heavy industry test gets harder
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The Safeguard Mechanism’s heavy industry test gets harder

215 facilities. That's roughly how many industrial sites now sit under the Safeguard Mechanism's baseline-and-credit system, covering a…

By Marcus Wren · 17 Oct 2026
Coal exits versus replacement builds: who’s actually ahead
Policy & Markets

Coal exits versus replacement builds: who’s actually ahead

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By Marcus Wren · 13 Oct 2026

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