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What Charles Dickens can teach you about utes
The English author mapped out the lobbying tactics of the legacy car makers against vehicle emissions standards 170 years ago.
- Tristan Edis
Offshore Gippsland licences to unlock $100b of generation
The winners of a dozen offshore wind licences are preparing for offtake auctions that seek to harness world-class resources.
- Ben Potter
Why AGL’s staff are happier after a major plant closure
AGL will use the Liddell decommissioning as a blueprint for plant shutdowns, after it managed to move 100 per cent of workers into new roles.
- Agnes King
New gas supplies ‘needed’ says Bowen as Gippsland wind takes off
Energy Minister Chris Bowen believes Australia has no option but to seek new supplies of gas even as he green-lights six potential offshore Gippsland wind projects.
- Jacob Greber
Kean questions need for Eraring bailout
It will be the “NSW government”, not the renewables sector, that faces the music if sluggish wind, solar and transmission rollout leads to blackouts.
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- Jacob Greber
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- Electricity
Former Labor leader to chair Victoria’s SEC
Simon Corbell, a former ACT deputy chief minister, will chair Victoria’s revised State Electricity Commission, after its advisory board was disbanded.
- Ben Potter and Patrick Durkin
Coal mine methane twice official disclosures: Sims
Australia’s open cut coal mines could be emitting twice as much methane as official disclosures suggest, casting doubt on national carbon emissions data.
- Ben Potter
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- Industrial
Batteries to power up warehouse pipeline as big as 40 MCGs
Dexus’ program to install batteries in all its new warehouses will cut its tenants’ energy bills by almost $100,000 a year and reduce their carbon emissions.
- Larry Schlesinger
Why Mike Cannon-Brookes invested in this mushroom
A tree-planting boom is required to get the world to net-zero, and the billionaire is betting mushrooms and fungi will be a crucial enabler
- Peter Ker and Lap Phan
Woodside climate plan sunk but Goyder survives
The proxy battle pitched Australia’s largest gas producer against activists that argue its path could tip the balance towards more dangerous climate change.
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- Ben Potter and Tom Rabe
Energy focus as Ashurst, Allens, Freehills appoint new partners
Energy and environment lawyers have led promotions at top-tier firms, as the legal industry targets the energy transition as the next big source of billings.
- Maxim Shanahan
Sims says ‘high cost’ Australia-made fixation threatens green steel
The federal government’s “Made in Australia” policy threatens to destroy the country’s chance at making “green” steel, economist Rod Sims says.
- Elouise Fowler
Australia’s richest firms get $331m in grants to reduce emissions
The government has doled out $331 million to firms including Rio Tinto, Wesfarmers, Swiss giant Glencore and Rich Lister Dick Honan’s Manildra for decarbonisation projects.
- Ben Potter
Electric vehicle sales set to surge, IEA predicts
EV numbers will be strong this year and Chinese carmakers will increase their dominance, the International Energy Agency predicts.
- Hans van Leeuwen
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- Gas
Big US pension funds, Aware want Richard Goyder off Woodside board
But AustralianSuper says it will back the businessman, even as it votes against the oil and gas giant’s climate plans, at a shareholder meeting on Wednesday.
- Ben Potter and Hannah Wootton
Green fuels are not the future – they’re just about here
Porsche-backed HIF Global wants to build a plant in Tasmania. Others are eyeing Townsville. But they need the government to push customers their way.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Solar pioneer raises $51m to make the sun shine after dark
A big oil player has pumped millions into an Australian solar upstart that uses giant mirrors, special PV cells and water dams to extend its operating hours.
- Peter Ker
Inside the rise and fall of EV player Tritium
Brisbane fast-charger company Tritium listed on the Nasdaq with a $2 billion valuation in 2022, but it didn’t take long for things to go awry.
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- Mark Ludlow
Fortescue slams Biden administration’s green hydrogen tax rules
The Andrew Forrest-chaired iron ore major has ambitious plans to become a force in renewable energy. But proposed US rules would stifle growth, it warns.
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- Peter Ker
Booming AI demand threatens electricity supply
Regulators are scrambling to factor the explosive growth of data centres into demand projections as one network warns of a 250 per cent surge in power needs.
- Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Opinion
New Malthusians are wrong: a rich world will need less energy
We will need to generate only half the energy we do now to replace today’s electricity use, lift the global South, and feed all those data centres. So rejoice.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Gas costs could sink more manufacturers after Qenos: AIG
Australian Industry group chief executive Innes Willox said the collapse of Qenos reflected the “erosion of key pillars of Australia’s industrial landscape” and high gas prices – and risked much more damage.
- Ben Potter
Santos blames lower output, prices for 15pc revenue slide
But the gas giant says the result sets it up to complete major projects including a carbon capture and storage scheme which is due to start later this year.
- Elouise Fowler
British shareholder LGIM piles more climate pressure on Woodside
The $2.3 trillion asset manager will vote against not only the gas giant’s climate plan but also against chairman Richard Goyder’s re-election.
- Hans van Leeuwen
BHP tied to gas until 2053 as power need swells on electric fleet
Decarbonisation of Australia’s biggest export industry will require almost seven times more power and BHP wants gas to play a role until at least 2053.
- Peter Ker