The Latest Breaking News from AEMO

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) this week released an update to its annual assessment of reliability, the so-called Electricity Statement of Opportunities. This has been reported as the market operator forecasting “power shortages”, or the network being “at risk of supply shortages”.

NSW Labor Leader Chris Minns says unifying his party in the lead up to the state election is about more than just securing a sweet political victory.

The Hunter's peak industry body has supported the Australian Energy Market Operator's call for urgent investment in generation, long-duration storage and transmission to achieve energy certainty.

The state is set to bear the brunt of reliability gaps in Australia's biggest power system as mass coal-fired power exits hit.

Successive La Niñas have eased demand but, with many renewable and storage projects now delayed, the energy market operator has revised its projections

Labor says the latest setback in the pumped hydro scheme, which had already been delayed to 2027, was inherited from the previous government

WA's only privately owned coal-fired power station to close "before 2030" under plans that would bring the curtain down on the fuel's use in the state's economy.

As we near an election in NSW, this will be on voters' minds.

Embattled consumers are set for some welcome relief after sky-high wholesale electricity prices fell by more than half in the final three months of 2022, analysis shows.

Wholesale electricity prices and carbon emissions dropped in the December quarter as solar and wind displaced coal-fired generation, but prices remain elevated.

Increased output from renewables, with a near-zero fuel cost, also nudged more coal and gas out of the generation market