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Celebrating 30 years of the Goldfields gas pipeline.

If you travel through the vast expanses of Western Australia, it's easy to look at the booming mining towns of the Pilbara and Goldfields and assume they have always had the power they needed.

But a pipeline is only as good as its ability to adapt.

And over the past three decades, the Goldfield gas pipeline has proven incredibly resilient.

Now 100% owned and operated by APA Group, the asset has continuously evolved.

Over the years, APA has expanded the network with laterals to service new mine sites and added compressor stations to increase flow capacity.

As Australia navigates a complex energy transition, the Goldfields gas pipeline's role is more critical than ever.

You're listening to Transmission, expert analysis and insights into the latest trends and developments in the energy market from APA Group.

Australia's energy system is changing and needs a safety net.

This story was originally published in The Australian on 26 October 2026 and was written by Kate Kalikouris.

The new data centre policy framework, agreed to by National Cabinet, outlines that data centres should be powered by renewables, backed by storage and firming, such as batteries and gas, with a level of flexibility for individual states.

This hybrid model of energy generation, combining renewables, batteries and gas, is already being delivered in the off-grid region of Mount Isa.

APA Group Executive of Energy Solutions, Darren Rogers, said the Cybella Creek Solar Farm and Battery Energy Storage System, or BESS, project near Mount Isa is a good example of how a mining operation can use a mix of energy generation, including... solar, batteries and highly efficient gas generation to lower costs, emissions and maintain reliability while reducing pressure on other users.

He explained that the project includes a large solar farm backed up by batteries and then firmed by gas to provide a highly reliable power supply.

So we're going to be providing a renewable energy solution firmed by our gas-fired power station.

And finally, WA's largest gas-fired power station could be built near Mandurah to power the grid and a major agribusiness precinct next door.

APA Group is behind the Keralup Energy Hub, an 870-megawatt facility proposed in Keralup, about halfway between Rockingham and Mandurah, east of the freeway.

An initial 210 MW gas plant would be built to feed a fertiliser production project and a 660 MW plant would be built later to connect to the South West Interconnected system.

Business News understands the fertiliser facility APA Group's gas plant would feed is part of the $350 million agribusiness precinct proposed by Palmer Wines founder Steve Palmer.

Plans submitted to the Environmental Protection Authority on Monday show APA Group also want to build a 2,400 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system on the 452 hectare site.

The facility has a mooted 40-year operational life, potentially extending gas supply into WA's main energy grid well beyond 2050 when net zero targets are due to be met.

That's all for today's headlines.

I'm going to say we do not understand that one enough.

No, no. APA Group from Shane Hurst.

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Pertman, weren't they doing something? Pertman's doing Project Helios down towards Karratha.

APA Group's got a gigawatt-scale renewables project.

Further up in the Kimberley, we've got the Gingara Energy Hub and the East Kimberley Clean Energy Project, both gigawatt-scale, so a huge amount of projects.

Obviously not all of them are going to get up.

We also had some numbers out from Nick Scarley as well.

We've got AGMs for APA Group, which we own in the income portfolio.

That's been on a strong run recently.

The ASX holds their AGM, BAPCOR, BHP.