The future of the Portland aluminium smelter in Victoria - and the jobs of hundreds of workers - is up in the air as the owners seek to renegotiate power supply contracts in a bid to keep the plant in operation.
The future of the Portland aluminium smelter is in doubt with the power company which supplies the plant disclosing one of the supply contracts is to end.
The Baird government will pay BHP Billiton about $220 million to buy back its licence.
Gridlocked roads might not seem the obvious place to build mini-power plants but one company has different ideas
Energy group AGL has warned of a "soft" start to trading in the fiscal 2017 year following a warm July that hit demand for gas and electricity.
A new coal mine planned for the NSW Southern Highlands would lose money on every tonne produced, two new reports say.
Oil declined after a report showed US crude inventories increased on weakening demand from refineries.
Closing dirty power stations to meet Australia's global carbon reduction commitment could result in power blackouts over the next decade.
AGL has boosted the profit it makes per household thanks to rising gas and electricity prices against the backdrop of higher wholesale market prices.
US oil producers are proving more resistant to low prices, even as global supply is set to fall.
Oil rose to a two-week high after OPEC's president said the group plans informal talks next month.
Oil giant BP has its sights on drilling within a commonwealth marine reserve.
The energy company plans to connect as many as 1000 batteries linked with solar panel systems in SA.
ActewAGL has been told to tweak its proposal for a cost based tariff structure to take effect in 2017 by the national energy regulator.
Gas prices, and not renewable energy, was the culprit behind the recent electricity shortage in South Australia which has driven prices to long-term highs.
Victoria's households could see power prices fall further than expected with the Victorian government throwing its weight behind a push by the industry regulator to force through price cuts
Oil closed in a bear market Monday, but don't abandon hope. Analysts see a rebound in 2017.
Oil fell below $US40 a barrel in New York for the first time since April on worries over supply.
The future of a major gas project in NSW just became a little clearer.
Strategy of Gulf states to flood markets with cheap crude fails as American cost-cutting pays off.
Savings of up to $500 a year by switching energy provider.
Chevron has pushed back well into 2017 when it expects the Gorgon project to be in full production.
Coal seam gas developer Santos and the Baird government communicated closely at the time new laws curbing protest activity were being drawn up, documents reveal.
Welcome to year two of a supply glut so persistent it's left analysts befuddled and investors running to the doorways.
As oil prices sink again, OPEC's fragile unity and Mohammed Barkindo, in particular, will be tested.
One day apparently is a long time in climate change politics.
The inefficient pricing and opaque contracts which have bedevilled the domestic gas market are to be blown wide open with the government forcing the development of two gas trading hubs while also forcing open access to pipelines.
First it was dead birds, then noise. Now wind farms are being blamed for destroying the electricity market and pushing prices as high as $14,000 per megawatt hour.
The oil and gas industry has the potential to drive climate change action but only if it makes a clear break with its coal cousins.
InterOil Corp. founder and former Chief Executive Officer Phil Mulacek is back out swinging at the management team that replaced him three years ago.
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