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A Nobel Prize laureate, leaders tackling the Aussie engineering shortage, climate change innovators, research translation superstars, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander STEM education champions are among the distinguished cohort of Fellows elected to the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) this year.

Some communities in the proposed path of overhead transmission lines are worried about the effect on their lives and livelihoods. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Australian Energy Market Operator has flagged more investment in transmission is desperately needed.

Peter Coleman says buyers willing to sign up for 10-year green hydrogen contracts are like unicorns. But Fortescue’s Mark Hutchinson insists they are out there. 

Fortescue Energy CEO Mark Hutchinson wants companies to bring forward their net zero targets. Those with 2040 or 2050 horizons are not acting urgently enough.

Boral is having to regularly wind back production when power prices spike, showing the toll that Australia’s stumbling energy transition is taking on manufacturing.

Exclusive: September quarter average fell to $63 a megawatt hour partly thanks to milder winter and increased renewables

The return of the El Nino weather system is expected to deliver a hot, dry summer increasing the likelihood of bushfires and drought.

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Australia may extend the operating life of its largest coal-fired power plant beyond its planned closure in 2025 in an effort to counter power shortages.