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How we can keep burning (clean) coal for 100 years
The man behind a low carbon gas-fired power station says he is certain it can be adapted to run on Australian coal and will mean coal can be burned for “hundreds of years”.
- Peter Ker
Line Hydrogen teams up to fuel Tassie truck fleets
Line Hydrogen is moving ahead with plans to build hydrogen refuelling stations in the Apple Isle after getting a cash injection in the recent Labor budget.
- Jenny Wiggins
An ‘Airbnb’ of electric vehicle charging stations at home
Chargehound has 600 people on its books already wanting to rent out their home charging stations to other users.
- Simon Evans
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Arup office uses recycled timber and salvaged counter tops
The engineering consultancy is pushing for a building rating in its new office that measures effects on the environment well beyond its own 800 square metres.
- Michael Bleby
Smart meters could be mandatory by 2030
The Australian Energy Market Commission says making smart meters compulsory will enable better consumption patterns and regenerate Australia’s energy grid.
- Colin Packham
Yesterday
Investors worth $100trn call for mandatory disclosure
A major group of international investors wants the government to mandate climate disclosures to help companies and shareholders gain clarity on emissions.
- Ayesha de Kretser
This Month
Callide power station stumble stokes summer blackout fears
Queensland’s trouble-plagued coal-fired power station Callide dropped off the electricity grid for three hours on Friday after its last remaining unit failed.
- Mark Ludlow
- Opinion
- Anthony Albanese
Albanese’s COP27 no-show stirs old doubts on Australia’s resolve
Australia wants to host a COP summit and become a magnet for global green capital. But kitchen-table politics is winning out instead.
- Jacob Greber
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
Labor set to join global 2030 deforestation ban in carbon credit boost
Australia is being urged to create an opportunity cost for farmers and forestry industries undertaking “business-as-usual” land clearing.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Letters: How to meet our energy needs
Angus Taylor, Narrabri gas and energy prices; Taronga Zoo lions; Qantas’ COVID policies; ISIS brides v Julian Assange; Melbourne Uni wage theft; King Charles on $5 note.
The 50 Emissions Reduction Fund projects that failed to deliver
The $2.5 billion Emissions Reduction Fund – which will be rebadged by the Albanese government – has scrapped projects that did not deliver promised abatement.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
- Opinion
- Opinion
How you and your EV could overpower state grid planning
A fully electric vehicle fleet will hold close to 24 hours’ worth of Australian electricity supply as surplus to our need for transport.
- Tristan Edis
‘Renewable energy baseload’ to power BHP’s Olympic dam
French company Neoen will supply Olympic Dam with “baseload” renewables, involving wind power backed up by battery storage.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Renewables
BP’s boss says Australia’s energy transition sweet spot is up for grabs
Green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel and decarbonisation of LNG are all on the table in Western Australia at BP, but only with policies to make the investments economic.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
BHP wants Australia to ban new petrol cars by 2035
Australia’s biggest company will urge state governments to adopt an electric vehicle policy that would see the sale of new petrol and diesel cars banned by 2035.
- Peter Ker
‘Lights would go out’ under Cannon-Brookes’ 1.5 degree target: AGL
Chairman Patricia McKenzie says replacement power supply cannot be built in time to allow the power sector to align with Mike Cannon-Brookes’ wishes.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Japanese giant to buy Flotation Energy in offshore wind move
Tokyo Electric is the latest foreign company looking to develop offshore wind projects in Australia.
- Colin Packham
Hurry up with Narrabri gas, Angus Taylor tells NSW
Shadow Treasurer Angus Taylor says the NSW government is yet to fulfil a promise to open the state’s Narrabri gas field despite a deal with the federal government in 2020.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Rushing the green energy transition will be painful
In fossil-fuel-rich Australia, the energy transition will be a massive economic adjustment, and very expensive.
- John Kehoe
- Exclusive
- Hydrogen
No policy? No renewables powerhouse, says BP
BP Australia chief Frederic Baudry says a local version of the US’s Inflation Reduction Act is vital to realise the country’s huge potential in clean energy.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Feds wave through rare earth sales to China
Miners can sell Australian rare earths to China – despite taxpayers spending billions to build a domestic rare earths supply chain and break China’s dominance.
- Peter Ker
Five experts’ tips on where the bottom is, and what to buy
Market professionals give guidance on opportunities, key signals and where to profit in volatile times.
- Lucy Dean
- Exclusive
- Energy
Saul Griffith attacks ex-chief scientist’s hydrogen start-up
Alan Finkel’s new business won’t be able to overcome the economic barriers to using renewable energy to make hydrogen, the electricity advocate said.
- Aaron Patrick
Iluka boss says Australia must take charge of its rare earths destiny
Iluka’s Tom O’Leary says the world can only decarbonise if China lets it do so, such is China’s dominance of the minerals needed for things like wind turbines.
- Peter Ker
Why Queensland sugar cane can be the ‘Exxon of biofuels’
The way it is farmed and processed could make it a more viable source of low-carbon aviation power than other crops such as corn.
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
