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Industry veteran departs Energy Super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
Retiring Energy Super director Bob Henricks will be replaced by electricity industry veteran Peter Duffy after the former announced he will be leaving the $6bn fund. Henricks retires with a legacy at Energy Super after serving 21 years on the board ...

WA energy plant adds Canadian owners

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... natural resources sector. The Worsley operation is a 104 Megawatt multi-fuel cogeneration plant that supplies steam and electricity to the Worsley Alumina refinery in Collie, Western Australia, under a 25-year capacity purchase agreement. Worsley Alumina ...

Research shows ethical investing at tipping point

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... China is reducing its coal use, Japan is diversifying its energy mix and developed countries worldwide have falling electricity consumption rates. These changes are structural, not cyclical and we believe smart super funds will eventually stop investing ...

Energy Super appoints new board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... than 55 years' experience in the energy and finance industries, having been chief executive and company secretary for Electricity Credit Union between 1973 and 2008. He was also the operations manager for the Far North Queensland Electricity Board for ...

Support to recycle Queensland assets

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
... government debt and reinvested in priority infrastructure projects," Behrens said. He cited the NSW example of selling down electricity transmission business TransGrid, which recently sold to an Australian-led international consortium for $10.3 billion ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires 49% stake in GE business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... plant. Worsley Cogen is valued at $1.2 billion and GE will retain a 50.1% stake in the business. It generates steam and electricity and was commissioned in January 2014 in Collie, Western Australia. It has a contractual arrangement with South32 Limited's ...

California pension giants must divest from coal

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... announced the signing of the bill on his website. The move is in line with his target to generate half of the state's electricity from renewable sources by 2030. The law requires the US$291 billion ($400 billion) California Public Employees' Retirement ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... continent is set to grow, and that this will lead to higher consumption, higher urbanisation, more infrastructure and more electricity generation. However, "people need to be careful when they say they want exposure to Asia," James says. "At the end ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... last week. Greece must also enact further pension reforms, open up professions, loosen trading rules, privatise its electricity network, reform its labour market and strengthen its banks. Once that is out of the way, Mr Tsipras's government, if it is ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... points". "The first point is the growth opportunity; the ability to access growth areas like the shale gas revolution and electricity transmission investment in the US. "Then there's cashflow growth through any economic cycle, and finally these companies ...