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AusNet rolls out unified customer connections platform to fast‑track services as grid demand rises

MELBOURNE, Australia, May 19, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- AusNet, Australia's largest diversified energy network business, has collaborated with IBM Consulting (NYSE: IBM) and Salesforce to transform how customers and electricians request and manage electricity connections. The new single, unified platform gives AusNet the ability to deliver faster, more transparent services for…

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AusNet wants customers to pay for transition from gas

An energy provider has called on the regulator to approve a plan to make Victorian gas customers pay more to make up for those who have gone electric.

AAP

Australia urged to show ‘true climate leadership’ as Pacific Islands Forum begins – as it happened

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Delay in compensation to Victorians without power

A power provider has been taken to task by the Victorian energy minister for its delayed rollout of prolonged outage payments.

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Thousands of Victorians remain without electricity as inquiry launched into mass power outages

Independent experts to review energy firms’ response to storms that left more than half a million customers without power

The Guardian - AU

Victoria fires and storms destroy at least 60 homes as prolonged power outage payments announced

Number of homes lost set to rise as premier Jacinta Allan announces payments for thousands expected to be without power for more than a week

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Dutton says reports of WA boat arrival ‘disturbing’; Barnaby Joyce denies drinking problem – as it happened

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Sixteen homes 'uninhabitable' as outage compo capped

Most Victorians caught up in a mass power outage will be ineligible for compensation as the damage to homes from destructive storms is laid bare.

AAP

Victoria’s blackout had nothing to do with renewables. Claiming that it did won’t fix the system

Even as the weather emergency was still unfolding, some commentators and politicians couldn’t resist the urge to blame renewable energy

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Ten must pay Wilkinson’s legal fees, court rules – as it happened

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Competition watchdog authorises $19 billion Origin deal

Citing the public benefit of up to $30 billion in green energy investments, the ACCC has signed off on Brookfield's pending acquisition of Origin Energy.

AAP

VicGrid says residents are 'confused' over transmission lines planned for the south-east

Residents in line to host renewable energy infrastructure thought they knew the ground rules, but say they remain confused and in the dark about plans for transmission lines across their region.

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Western Renewables Link protest turns ugly as farmers accuse representatives of 'running into bushes'

A protest against a major energy transmission project planned for Central Victoria turned ugly when nearly 100 farmers rallied with tractors against the controversial Western Renewables Link (WRL).

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Victorian government to pay landowners for hosting power infrastructure

Landowners will be eligible to receive payments of $8,000 per kilometre of transmission infrastructure for 25 years, but those in line say it's not enough to ease their concerns about a project that has been "shambolic" in its planning.

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‘Everyone’s against it’: the powerlines dispute in one of Victoria’s most marginal electorates

Proposed transmission lines to help meet renewable targets are slated to run through Ripon, held by just 15 votes in 2018

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A clean energy grid means 10,000km of new transmission lines. They can only be built with community backing

If you drive through central Victoria, you might wonder at the signs reading “Piss off AusNet” in shop windows or even mown into grassland. Communities and farmers are pushing back against plans for new 85-metre towers and transmission lines needed to transmit renewable power to the cities.

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Tractors take to the streets of Ballarat as farmers protest Western Renewables Link

A sea of tractors throughout the main streets of Ballarat on Friday ferried farmers protesting proposed high-voltage transmission lines as high as 85 metres that will crisscross agricultural land.

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AEMO's renewable energy roadmap ignores community stalemate, expert says

Amid delays caused by community resistance to major infrastructure projects, an energy policy expert says AEMO's plan to complete five projects in the next decade is a pipedream.

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Powerlines and potatoes: the renewable energy transmission project causing angst in central Victoria

In the central highlands north-west of Melbourne, farmers are fighting plans to install 85-metre towers through their properties

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Short respite for flooded eastern Victoria

A major highway has been closed after heavy rain and strong winds lashed eastern Victoria, with power slowly being restored to affected communities.

ABC News

Farmers gather at Parliament House to protest against AusNet transmission line project

Hundreds of farmers descend on Parliament House to demand the Victorian government reject AusNet's plan to build a giant transmission corridor that they say will destroy prime agricultural land.

Al Jazeera

In Australia, farmers up in arms over renewable energy rollout

Farming communities say high voltage power lines linking wind farms to urban centres will upend their livelihoods.

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