Businesses and households to be offered cash to use less electricity at peak times next summer.

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If we're all going to be dead in the long run, shareholders are entitled to ask for a better return while they still draw breath.

Consumers are set to pay higher energy prices but it has little to do with looming "gas shortages", researchers say.

Hazelwood's demise has triggered a surge in gas - and a prediction electricity prices will rise by up to 40%.

Explosives producer expects domestic gas prices to stabilise by the early 2020s following the steep rises of recent years.

A Kokoda veteran says Australia's future depends on winning the battle against giant coal mines.

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The latest missive from the activist fund manager is an aggressive assault on BHP's strategy, performance and the billions of dollars Elliott says the company has lost.

Oil jumped more than 2 per cent after Saudi Arabia and Russia said that supply cuts need to last into 2018.

The scale of Australia's untapped solar energy resources has been laid bare with a study of the City of Sydney finding as little as 1 per cent of the available rooftops equipped with photovoltaics.

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Missing out on Australia's natural gas export boom may be the best thing that happened to Arrow Energy.

The nation's oil and gas industry has "lost the trust of the public", which is threatening its so-called "social licence", the head of one of the country's largest gas producers has warned.

Global miner BHP Billiton is taking its first steps to preparing to drop "Billiton" from its name, with the launch of a global rebranding which will also mark the move away from styling the group as "the big Australian".

Managers of Bayswater power station in the Hunter Valley provided staff with precise instructions on how to blend coal to avoid triggering pollution alerts, documents stretching across almost two decades show.

The oil and gas industry is missing out on significant opportunities to cut costs due to a lack of trust between owners, operators and contractors on how to best work together.

The backers of a proposed project to pipe gas from Narrabri, in north west NSW, to Newcastle, are seeking government backing to force the gas from the project to be sold in NSW, rather than be transported across state borders for export abroad.

Canada's Teck Resources , Lundin Mining and HudBay Minerals are among a number of suitors that have submitted bids for BHP Billiton's Cerro Colorado copper mine in Chile, people familiar with the matter said.

China reportedly to suspend planning approval for dozens of coal fired power plants

The NSW environment watchdog is investigating whether the state's coal-fired power stations have under-reported pollution.

Tesla has begun taking orders for its transformative new solar roof, combining solar power, home batteries, and electric cars.

Oil continued to climb a day after its biggest advance of the year as US stockpiles fell more than forecast.

Provisions to rehabilitate the state's 450 mines in NSW are inadequate, their required outcomes vague, and the risks of long-term failure are uncovered, according to a report by the Auditor-General.

Activist US fund manager Elliott Associates is expected to seek further meetings with BHP Billiton officials.

The state government will net nearly $3 billion from the sale of the final piece of the states "poles and wires" electricity assets.

Concerns that the home building boom may have peaked saw shares in CSR sink on Wednesday.

Pacific Ocean will switch from serving as a brake to an accelerator, a new paper warns.

Oil prices fell, rattled by concern over slowing demand, a rising US dollar and increasing US crude output.

Before West Texas Intermediate crude nosedived on Thursday, money managers slashed bets on rising prices by 20 per cent.

Some of the world's biggest investors have pleaded with governments of the world's largest economies, including Australia, to stick with their commitments to tackle climate change and to introduce carbon pricing to help achieve them.

Battery makers worldwide are watching to see whether Australia's most wind power-dependent state can keep the lights on by installing grid-scale batteries by December, which could help drive the growth of renewable energy across Australia and Asia.