Rye Park wind farm near Boorowa has been approved, but with 17 fewer turbines.

On a small island off the southern coast of Singapore, a French energy company is experimenting with what it hopes will be the future of renewable power storage.

Households facing 'price spike' as industry regulator loses key legal case.

The White House plans to sell half of the nation's emergency oil stockpile and entire backup gasoline supply to pare debt.

BHP has hired Barclays to sell its US Fayetteville shale gas assets as the miner seeks to fend off activist funds.

Low gas prices has Woodside looking to cheap gasfield expansion options.

​Oil prices rose to their highest levels in more than a month, on bets that top exporters would agree to extend supply curbs.

The Berejiklian government will issue warnings of potential threats to electricity supplies from this summer after its review of February's heatwave found the power sector to be vulnerable.

The government has quietly axed environmental conditions aimed at protecting turtle species set to be affected by Adani's proposed $3 billion coal terminal expansion.

Action needs to be taken now to avoid power blackouts this summer, government told

Queensland Investment Corp is seeking close to $1 billion in damages over claimed misrepresentations by power utility EnergyAustralia with the sale of the Iona underground gas facility

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.