"As one of the largest producers of emissions globally – and with the ability to accelerate emissions reduction in many other sectors – the energy sector must and will be front and centre of efforts to lead the charge on decarbonisation." Origin, whose portfolio spans coal, gas, renewable energy and liquefied natural gas (LNG), needed to be the "missing link", bridging the centralised energy network of thermal power plants and decentralised energy, he said, "maximising all the capacity in the system to deliver benefits to customers and the grid". "We will also need to progressively invest less in legacy technologies and more into renewable energy and storage and the development of future fuels like hydrogen," he said. This year, Australia's top power companies have faced falling wholesale energy prices following an influx of cheap renewable energy coupled with a demand slump caused by offices and factories temporarily closing due to COVID-19.