AGL shareholders will speak this week – and Australia’s energy market will be listening

‘On the line at the AGM will be AGL’s Climate Transition Action Plan, which management argues is the latest best way to wean the nation’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter off fossil fuels.’ Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

AGL Energy’s annual general meeting is on at the Melbourne Recital Centre this Tuesday – and remaining executives running Australia’s biggest electricity producer are hoping the shareholder gathering provides a rousing finale for what’s been a tumultuous year.

The opening act was February’s unsolicited takeover bid by Mike Cannon-Brookes.