The Latest Breaking News from AGL

Four candidates nominated by billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes' private company, Grok Ventures, have been elected to AGL Energy's board of directors.

On show at the company’s AGM may be the final big demonstration of shareholder activism in the nations’s electricity generation space

The energy giant would be divided into electricity generation and gas firms in order to hit Australia’s climate targets

Tax Office finds more than half major mining, energy and water companies paid nothing in 2020-21, a three-year high

When a vote is counted by shares and not shareholders, the powerful hold sway. Is it time to look at compulsory voting for retail shareholders in ASX300 companies?

Billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is rallying shareholders for a larger board at AGL Energy to speed up the leading electricity firm's exit from coal-fired power.

One of the world's largest integrated energy projects is taking shape on the site of Liddell and Bayswater power stations.

AGL Energy has vowed to fight billionaire shareholder Mike Cannon-Brookes' plan to revamp the board of directors ahead of a 'crucial vote' next month.

Though from different realms, both companies deploy similar tactics to retain old directors and stonewall the new.

If future historians pick a point in time when Australia comprehensively turned its back on coal-fired generation, they may well point to AGL’s decision to bring forward the closure of Loy Yang A, the cheapest (excluding emission costs) power generator in the energy market spanning eastern Australia.

AGL Energy is preparing for another showdown with billionaire shareholder Mike Cannon-Brookes after largely rejecting his plan for a board renewal.