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Equity Trustees wins AEMO mandate

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) Services has appointed Equity Trustees as financial trustee under the NSW Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap. The Roadmap, established by the state government, is working towards the goal of 12GW of new renewable ...

Ethical ETF popularity soars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2022
... provides exposure to a portfolio of companies in the areas of sustainable global food production and supply. "We know electricity and energy is a big challenge related to climate change, transport is next, and the next one after that is agriculture," ...

Palisade Real Assets acquires second waste business

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... digestion assets, and adjacent infrastructure, that capture and convert energy from organic waste into efficient heat, electricity, and transport solutions. It will also aggregate bioenergy infrastructure assets to build a bioenergy enterprise. Meanwhile ...

Strong wage growth lags inflation

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... Though, annual wage growth varied by industry, from 3.4% for the construction industry to 2.2% for the mining and electricity, gas, water, and waste services industries. Also notable, private sector wages grew more than public sector wages (2.7% and ...

BlackRock Real Assets buys battery grid business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022
... fund the development of over 1GW (Gigawatt) of battery storage assets across Akaysha's nine projects in the National Electricity Market (NEM). The battery storage assets, which have the capacity to resolve the intermittency of renewable energy sources ...

Mining vital to low carbon solutions: Fidelity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2022
... report surmised. Moreover, one of the principal drivers of demand for minerals and metals is the decarbonisation of electricity supply and the build out of related renewables. For example, China currently derives 60% of its grid electricity from thermal ...

Palisade Real Assets in UK acquisition

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... own and operate anaerobic digestion assets that capture and convert energy from organic waste into efficient heat, electricity and transport solutions. It will also aggregate bioenergy infrastructure assets to build a bioenergy enterprise. Under the ...

Aware Super invests in $100bn energy opportunity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2022
... generation with renewables." "Declining sources of carbon-intensive dispatchable power, driven by the move to decarbonise electricity generation is the key issue in the electricity market, and is now an increasing part of the discussion. "Pumped hydro ...

Stagflation: What should we expect?

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022
... added: "I think households may be cashed up but that's quickly been eroded by inflation. Things like petrol prices, electricity prices, all these things sort of eating away at that household balance sheet and all those accumulated savings." According ...

Reserve Bank shocks with hawkish 50bp increase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... increase further but Lowe believes it will decline back towards the two-three percent range next year. "Higher prices for electricity and gas and recent increases in petrol prices mean that, in the near term, inflation is likely to be higher than was ...