The state's new peak body for renewable energy and energy efficiency, which emerged after the collapse of the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia last year, is set to establish its leadersh
A dispute between privately owned Alinta Energy and Horizon Power hangs over state government plans to overhaul the north-west's unregulated electricity network.
In just its second year in the tightly held retail gas market, Wesfarmers' Kleenheat brand has stirred up intense competition among business customers.
Fortescue Metals Group has called for the phasing out of the state government's contentious domestic gas reservation policy, which has traditionally been backed by big gas buyers, in favour of stricter application of the ‘use it or lose it' rules.
Alinta Energy has awarded engineering group UGL a $136 million contract to design and construct a high voltage power system which will supply electricity to the massive Roy Hill iron ore mine.
Alinta Energy has entered into negotiations to supply more Pilbara businesses with electricity following the termination of a long-standing state agreement, which restricted its ability to provide power.
Alinta Energy has given a lukewarm response to reforms that could provide the state's residential customers with a choice of electricity retailers for the first time.
Alinta Energy has appointed a new board featuring former chairman Tony Howarth and former Alcoa managing director Wayne Osborn, after shareholders approved a major restructuring that saw the group's assets sold to a private equity consortium.
Alinta Energy has withdrawn its application to the Takeovers Panel to limit security holder Coastal Capital International's voting rights at an extraordinary general meeting next week.
The owner of the state's gas and electricity retail business, Alinta Energy, has recorded a $577 million loss after tax for the 2010 financial year, mainly due to a full year impairment charge of $670 million.
Alinta Energy has announced it expects a $465 million write-down in the value of its assets when it finalises its latest accounts, with most of the loss attributable to its WA retail business.
Embattled Babcock and Brown Power will seek shareholder approval to change its name to Alinta Energy at the company's annual general meeting next month.
History has a wonderful habit of repeating itself - just ask Alinta owner Babcock & Brown Power as it tries to crawl out from a $3 billion debt mountain as a crippling increase in its cost base looms.
The Woodside Petroleum-operated North West Shelf Venture today said it was continuing to negotiate with gas retailer Alinta, owned by Babcock and Brown Power, over future gas supplies from the project following an interim ruling by an arbitrator yesterday
The state government has accepted Alinta's proposal to increase the cap for gas tariffs by 23 per cent, as the gas retailer seeks to recover some of its costs from the impact of the Varanus Island gas explosion.
Babcock & Brown Power could face a class action lawsuit over the alleged failure to properly disclose its refinancing arrangements in the wake of the Alinta acquisition.
State Energy Minister Peter Collier has ruled out purchasing the Western Australian assets of troubled utility investor Babcock and Brown Power, namely those in the Alinta group that the ailing investment banking group bought two years ago.
The state's food and beverage manufacturing sector believes the fallout from the gas crisis could be felt for years, not months, as it faces the challenge of rebuilding customer relationships and workforces once normal gas supply resumes.
Alinta has finalised the composition of payments to its shareholders under its recently approved takeover scheme, with shareholders who wanted cash rather than various Babcock & Brown securities getting nearly all of their payment in cash.
The $8 billion bid for energy utility Alinta by Singapore Power International and Babcock and Brown Ltd has won the approval of the Federal Court, Babcock & Brown has announced.
Alinta Ltd shareholders today voted overwhelmingly in favour of an $8 billion bid for the energy utility, led by Babock & Brown Ltd, but not without some vocal dissent from small investors attending the shareholders meeting.
East Perth-based Fortescue Metals Group Ltd will join the S&P/ASX 100, when Alinta is removed on August 17, after the company is fully acquired by a Babcock & Brown and Singapore Power consortium.
Energy utility Alinta Ltd has delivered a 20 per cent increase in first half profit on the back of a significant rise in revenue, ahead of next week's shareholders' meeting to approve its sale.
Alinta Ltd has reached an agreement with Tasmania's major electricity distributor Aurora Energy Pty Ltd for a long-term energy supply contract, clearing the way for construction of its proposed Tamar Valley Power Station.
Alinta Ltd is considering its options after a key contractual arrangement for its proposed Tamar Valley Power Station in Tasmania fell through when a gas sales agreement lapsed today.
