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Swedish private equity firm EQT Infrastructure has ended talks with Vocus Communications over a possible takeover which valued the company at A$3.3 billion, the Australian firm says.

The ACCC has warned of scammers impersonating energy and telecommunications providers and demanding payments in the wake of thousands of fake billing scams costing consumers losses of nearly $8000.

AGL Energy has announced it is bringing Amazon Alexa voice control to its customers, allowing them to easily manage their energy at home.

Energy company AGL is building a “virtual” power plant in metropolitan Adelaide using what is says are “intelligent” solar batteries installed on 1000 homes.

A security company has warned of a ransomware campaign masquerading as AGL electricity bills.

The ACCC has continued its pursuit of dodgy door-to-door sales practices, this time taking Origin Energy to court.

Energy retailer AGL is using SAP software to provide its customers with feedback about their energy usage.

Adelaide based data centre specialist Tier 5 is using Dell technology as the foundation for the first in a series of multi tenant data centres - and has signed a deal with energy company AGL to conduct a feasibility study into how gas or renewable energy could be used to generate power for the data centres.

If you follow the energy sector, you'd be aware that the word 'smart' gets bandied about quite a lot. Smart meters, smart cities and smart grids are all the rage. New South Wales based retailer and distributor EnergyAustralia has picked up a neat $100M as the winning bidder for the "Smart Grid, Smart City" project.