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Turnbull wins tender to develop hydroelectricity in NSW
A private company owned by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has won a NSW tender to develop hydro schemes in the Hunter Valley.
- Peter Ker
- Exclusive
- Climate policy
BCA demands 12-month delay in climate reporting
The Albanese government “should be taking the time to get it right”, argues Business Council of Australia boss Bran Black.
- Patrick Durkin
Coal back-up needed: Energy CEOs warn transition falling behind
Leading energy chief executives argue a coal safety net to smooth the exit away from fossil fuel generation will keep the supply of power reliable.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Firefighters battle ‘potentially catastrophic’ breakdowns in Vic blaze
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has thanked Victorian firefighters as another blaze ripped through the state’s west, forcing thousands to evacuate.
- Gus McCubbing
Inside Snowy 2.0: getting a $12b mega-project back on track
The Florence tunnel boring machine will need to pick up the pace to 12-15 metres a day to stay on target as the scheme pursues Australia’s renewables dream.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
This Month
Businesses suffer as Victoria outage blame game erupts
Pramod Patel turfed more than $20,000 worth of stock after his Victorian grocery store lost power for four days, but the political blame game rages on.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- David Littleproud
Why the Coalition wants more homes with solar and batteries
Labor runs the risk of being outflanked by an emerging Coalition plan to expand household and business solar and storage, at the expense of big business.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Victorian blackouts cast misinformation over grid reliability
Electricity is so political that a technical fault was spun in erroneous directions by all sides of the renewables debate.
- Matthew Warren
Santos’ record dividend justifies pay despite profit slide: CEO
The oil and gas giant’s shareholders were left disappointed two weeks ago after the company and its bigger rival called off talks of an $80 billion merger.
- Ben Potter
Rio Tinto’s giant Queensland bet on Andrew Forrest wind farm
The deal marks another major step in moving the company’s coal-powered aluminium production assets away from fossil fuel.
- Ben Potter
Acciona bets on Qld clean energy as NSW, Victoria lag
The move confirms Queensland as a renewable energy powerhouse and heaps pressure on NSW and Victoria to hasten the approval of more large projects.
- Ben Potter
- Exclusive
- David Littleproud
‘Breakthrough moment’: Littleproud backs rooftop solar
The Nationals leader is mulling a plan to divert billions of dollars into putting panels on roofs in the bush to solve the NIMBY transmission problem.
- Jacob Greber
More than 3000 still without power a week after Victoria storms
Premier Jacinta Allan says her government will review last week’s mass outages which saw 530,000 homes and businesses lose power.
- Gus McCubbing
- Opinion
- Opinion
The Garnaut-Sims power plan is Argentina on steroids
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would be an act of amazing self-harm and would destroy Australia’s big export industries to force-feed unproven ones.
- Ed Shann
Labor holds to US vehicle emissions goal despite Biden ‘doubts’
Labor’s pressing ahead with a plan to encourage EVs by penalising fossil fuel-burning vehicles, even through the US is watering down the model it’s based on.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Opinion
Garnaut-Sims power plan is big on ambition, short on logic
The $100 billion carbon tax proposal would penalise Australians, deter greener energy switches in Asia, and would be impossible to implement.
- Richard Holden
EnergyAustralia’s big gas bet arrives as hydrogen runs down the clock
EnergyAustralia has started up its Tallawarra B gas plant south of Sydney, with CEO Mark Collette saying gas will play a vital role to keep power supply secure.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Nickel miners thrown ‘sovereign’ lifeline
Fears of a collapse in the nation’s “sovereign capacity” prompted Resources Minister Madeleine King to include the battery metal on the government’s official “critical minerals list”.
- Jacob Greber, Peter Ker and Brad Thompson
Victoria’s mass outage boosts call to bury power lines
Energy expert Tony Wood says Victoria’s mass outage this week due to wild weather means underground transmission lines are worth considering.
- Gus McCubbing
The airship revolution being plotted for rural Australia
A French government-backed airship maker that has set its sights on revolutionising the cargo transport industry is planning to touch down in Ballarat in Victoria.
- Hans van Leeuwen
‘Better if we are stronger’: Origin CEO defends profit surge
The power and gas supplier has raised guidance for profits in its energy markets business for the full year, but advised that figure will likely fall next year.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Teals, Greens taunt Labor on carbon tax proposal
Teal independent Allegra Spender said carbon pricing should be on the table along with scrapping the $8 billion of annual fossil fuel subsidies for off road vehicles users and other special interests.
- Ben Potter
Shell lowers LNG growth view as demand set to peak in 2040s
Global natural gas demand peaked in the 2010s in Japan, Europe and Australia. Shell expects North America to follow in the 2030s and then the rest of the world.
- Anna Shiryaevskaya
How Tesla-killer BYD plans to double its Australian sales this year
The new boss of Australia’s sole distributor of BYD vehicles is confident that he can make anyone willing to take a test drive fall in love with the Chinese manufacturer’s vehicles.
- Gus McCubbing
Resurrect carbon price to fund superpower: Garnaut, Sims
Professor Garnaut will say reviving the carbon price is “not as impossible as passing on to our children and grandchildren lower standards of living than our own parents and grandparents left to us”.
- Ben Potter
