Snowy Hydro says final testing runs the station on back-up diesel, overnight, one generator at a time, for about four weeks from 16 July, with a visible plume and odour. Its own page also says the impacts of recent testing are under investigation. The licence caps the plant at 1,100 hours a year, and it is arriving in the weakest quarter for gas generation since 1999.
28 July 2026
Comment-only submissions in 2023 and 2024, formal support in July 2026. The council models refusal at 2,984 jobs and $4.795 billion of output in Singleton alone.
30 August 2026
Built on budget in a coal town. NSW has legislated a 6 per cent ethanol minimum since 2011 and delivered 2.1 per cent in 2024, down from 2.3. Both SAF projects that would use the output are in Queensland.
30 August 2026
Submissions closed 5 August. On 27 August the Commission asked the applicant for more information and requested an extension of time. The outcome is pending.
28 August 2026
39 to 54 per cent of a DMO price is the wires, not the electrons. The AER sets it for five years at a time, and on the last NSW transmission reset the number of public submissions at the opening step was zero. Ausgrid’s next one starts in October.
The $2.5 billion package was reported as a jobs story. Read as an energy document it commits to nearly 3 GW of new renewable generation and firming, a demand-response programme at Australia's largest single electricity user, and turns on a contract expiring 31 December 2028.
25 August 2026
$200,000 in 2022 dollars per kilometre hosted, paid annually for 20 years and indexed, separate from and additional to the easement compensation. The Hunter Transmission Project is declared eligible infrastructure.
The first public count of who here can actually supply the build: 399 capability entries for services, 108 for supply, 50 for manufacturing, and the three components ICN says the region has a real case to make.
16 August 2026
20 hours or 10 interruptions in a financial year triggers a payment, and there is a higher tier above it. The catches are real, and Ausgrid’s own two pages state the claim deadline two different ways.
23 August 2026
The 2026 ESOO says no reliability instrument is needed for 2027-28 or 2029-30. It also says the assessment included about 26 GW of anticipated projects, that without them New South Wales would have triggered a T-3 instrument for 2029-30, and that the T-1 fallback for that year is now closed.
We read the Package 1 submissions from Ausgrid, Endeavour and Essential Energy side by side. None supports the Nexa rule change, in three different registers. Ausgrid raises kerbside charging 48 times and wants to fix the overnight home charge problem; Essential, covering 95 per cent of the state, does not raise it once.
26 August 2026
Network costs are the largest component of a power bill, on the AEMC's own account. Package 2 asks whether the revenue process is efficient, whether the incentives point the right way, and who carries the risk.
20 August 2026
One produced enforcement, one produced court proceedings, and three produced review and monitoring. The annual check is also becoming a two-yearly one.
AGL, Alinta and Origin all appear in the energy regulator’s new compliance report over the same obligation, and it is the one protecting customers who pay their power bill from Centrelink deductions.
10 August 2026
Version 6 of the AER’s service target scheme drops the Market Impact Component, which priced the wholesale cost of a network’s outages. A working group reports a replacement by late 2026, the same window the Hunter connects its REZ and batteries.
5 August 2026
The AER opened the reset that sets Transgrid’s allowed revenue from July 2028. The first consultation drew no submissions at all; the second drew three, one of them from Transgrid.
4 August 2026
Origin’s two public offers, the $50 million a year gap it says sits between the parties, and the Fair Work Commission application now hanging over the transition.
18 July 2026
Fibre optics linking three Upper Hunter switching stations, 350 MW of an eventual gigawatt, and 40 GW of commercial interest queued behind it.
18 July 2026
The 2025 outlook still models August 2027; the current plan uses April 2029. Either way, the operator forecasts no NSW supply gap at the exit.
18 July 2026
AEMO’s quarterly tables show both Hunter coal stations more available and less used. The squeeze is the market, not the machinery.
18 July 2026
The Regulator’s workbooks, charted: the battery boom month by month, and why Maitland’s 2320 leads every count in the region.
18 July 2026
The demolition, the $750 million battery at the edge of AGL’s own stated window, and the second 500 MW build already committed at Tomago.
18 July 2026
Committed, actionable, anticipated, optional: AEMO’s status ladder for the wires being planned through Bayswater, Olney and the zone.
18 July 2026
Origin’s own stage table, charted: the megawatts stayed at 700 while the hours deepened from two toward six.
18 July 2026
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