Yesterday
The stealth compo of Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher
If a CEO’s family gets to fly for free on the corporate private jet, is that worth anything to the CEO?
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- Electric vehicles
Bowen goes full throttle on electric vehicles
The Climate Change and Energy Minister’s most intense battle – over fuel efficiency standards – is about to begin.
- Jennifer Hewett
This Month
- Opinion
- Energy transition
In Kalapa, cattle and coal are greener than wind power
Despite some loud claims to the contrary, farmers are opposed to renewable developments because they care about the bushland they live in.
- Matt Canavan
Car makers’ case against fuel standards misses the point: Grattan
A report by The Grattan Institute says proposed new fuel standards will raise car prices “by about only 1 per cent” and are critical for Australia to meet its 2050 net-zero emissions goal.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Electricity
The lights will stay on in NSW when Eraring is turned off
If the planned renewables and firming pipeline is delivered, the electricity grid will keep on passing tests like last Thursday’s extreme temperatures.
- Stephanie Bashir
Woodside and carbon offset body go their separate ways
Woodside Energy declined to renew its membership of the leading domestic carbon markets industry group last year after tighter membership rules were proposed.
- Ben Potter
Genex shares surge as Japanese utilities giant lobs bid
Scott Farquhar’s Skip Capital and a partner walked away from a lower bid for the Queensland renewables developer 14 months ago but remain its biggest shareholder.
- Ben Potter and Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Debelle rings alarm on green energy backlash
The former top RBA official says green energy critics wilfully ignore the need to replace rusting fossil fuel assets regardless of any carbon goals.
- Jacob Greber
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Three reasons the green energy transition will be non-inflationary
Renewable technologies will get cheaper, price spikes from retiring coal plants will be avoided and exposure to volatile fossil fuel markets will be reduced.
- Toby Phillips and Guy Debelle
February
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Any carbon tax needs to help fund the energy transition
Readers’ letters on the best model for a price on carbon, car makers dragging the chain on improving fuel standards, and why the ATO must better police tax debts.
- Exclusive
- Renewables
Solar firm 5B readies Indian manufacturing after $50m US deal
The company will build a US Customs-compliant plant partnership with top Indian panel maker and engineering group Waaree.
- Ben Potter
Victorians stay to protect homes ahead of catastrophic fire warning
Victorians under threat from bushfires have largely fled before catastrophic conditions descend, but others are staying to protect their homes.
- Callum Godde
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Tax carbon, but don’t gamble on green energy ‘superpower’
A carbon levy is required, but the money should be returned to households, not bureaucrats trying to pick ‘green’ winners, writes John Kehoe.
- John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
We don’t have time for more gas
Readers’ letters on the dangers of NT fracking, Andrew Forrest’s nuclear warning, wage earners as whipping boys, and Alexander Downer’s misplaced faith in the US.
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Forrest is right: don’t swallow the Coalition’s nuclear and rooftop fairytales
It’s just more disrupt and delay tactics from the incorrigible climate denialists who brought us a devastating decade of energy policy failure.
- Tim Buckley and Annemarie Jonson
Scramble to set up camp ahead of extreme fire danger
The Wimmera region is slated to have catastrophic fire danger on Wednesday, while extreme fire danger is predicted for five of Victoria’s nine weather districts.
- Callum Godde and Cassandra Morgan
- 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
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
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Adani’s started solar in India. So should the Nats in the regions
Rather than worry about waking up with a transmission line in your back paddock, the biggest landscape threat is not renewables but climate change.
- Matt Edwards
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
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
