The Andrews government will ask green energy providers to bid to supply the state with 650 megawatts of power - enough to power every household in Geelong, Ballarat, Bendigo and the Latrobe Valley - to meet its target of 40 per cent renewable energy by 2025.
The hero of East Timor's independence, Xanana Gusmao, will continue to lead his country's sensitive negotiations over maritime boundaries with Australia.
Origin Energy has opted not to pay a dividend after unveiling a top-line $2.22 billion loss in the wake of writedowns worth $3.1 billion.
Higher prices and reduced production costs have helped Woodside report a 49 per cent increase in first-half profit to $US507 million.
Falling oil prices have prompted Santos to once again slash the value of its flagship gas project in Queensland by $US870 million ($1.1 billion).
Australia's biggest coal-fired power stations are permitted to dump toxic pollutants on nearby populations far in excess of overseas counterparts, even those in China, a survey by Environmental Justice Australia reveals.
The Commonwealth Bank rules out lending to the proposed Carmichael megacoal mine in Queensland.
A key sign of OPEC's success may finally be here: the discount of immediate crude has turned into a premium.
AGL Energy has swung to a strong profit and predicted an even better year ahead on the back of rising wholesale energy prices and improving gas market conditions.
Victoria is officially the preferred home for AGL energy's planned $250 million gas import terminal, designed to ensure supply at a reasonable price.
Deregulation of electricity prices has failed and it's time to introduce a cap on tariffs by the end of the year, the Australian Greens say.
Energy giant Origin will roll out new technology allowing customers to track which appliances in their homes are using power as part of a deepening trend that sees retailers working more closely with consumers.
Most of us would need hundred of dollars per year to change electricity suppliers.
The major power companies' default mode is to treat loyal, long-term customers as complete mugs. You can ask for discounts, but it's finding the best deal where the pursuit of cheaper power becomes complicated.
One of Indonesia's most senior ministers has called on Attorney-General George Brandis to help speed up a class action on behalf of thousands of seaweed farmers.
Tesla is burning through cash with gleeful abandon. But for its long-term believers, it doesn't seem to matter.
Enough of the gentle nudges: Superannuation fund trustees are legally obliged to consider climate change risk and that's that.
Oil dropped about 2 per cent from a two-month high overnight as major world producers kept pumping more crude.
Oil prices rose to two-month highs, boosted in part by expectations of US sanctions against Venezuela's oil sector.
Origin Energy's full-year oil and gas production has lifted by 40 per cent and its revenue more than doubled.
Household energy bills are set to rise by an average of $200 annually, adding to challenges for consumer spending and putting Australia's economic growth outlook under a cloud, ANZ says.
Plans to develop an open-cut coal mine in the bucolic Bylong Valley lack key information about the impacts on the landscape, water resources and the community, the state's Planning Assessment Commission has found.
Could a handful of the world's richest people giving away their wealth make a real impact on climate change?
Opec, Russia and Big Oil thought they had half a century to prepare for the end of the internal combustion engine. At best they have a decade.
Oil rose 3.3 per cent to the highest close in more than a month amid signs US shale drilling may have peaked.
Malaysia's Petronas dropped plans to build a $US27 billion liquefied natural gas export terminal on Canada's west coast.
Resources Minister Matt Canavan seems to have set out to prove we're not at rock bottom yet.
Oil rose more than 1 per cent, after leading OPEC producer Saudi Arabia pledged to cut exports in August.
The nation's largest power generator has urged the federal government to exclude coal from its planned clean energy target, saying there is no appetite among private investors to fund new coal-fired power plants.
Momentum in Australia's renewable energy industry remains fragile as uncertainty clouds post-2020 prospects, the US energy giant says.