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Can investors de-risk the energy transition? It depends who you ask

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Tilt Renewables – the clean energy investment company owned by Queensland Investment Corporation, the Future Fund and AGL Energy – recorded a $64 million loss after tax from operations last year, and a $1.045 billion bottom-line profit – thanks to a huge increase in its revaluation reserve.

That illustrates a paradox facing investors in the energy transition: long-term confidence that the shift to clean energy is inevitable and urgent, even as short-term headwinds such as high-interest rates, costs, volatile electricity prices and planning and connection delays bruise profits and stall projects.

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