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Gas policy ‘taken over by activists’: Beach CEO
Brett Woods also took aim at politicians opposing local gas supply projects that are forcing the industry towards more emissions intensive and expensive imports.
Korean giant strikes out at gas intervention
Kogas has questioned whether it can still rely on its contracts to buy Australian LNG, given mounting government intervention in the domestic gas market.
Federation plots a path from asset manager to batteries developer
The investment firm is launching a multi-billion dollar platform that will specialise building and operating large, long-duration storage.
Santos breaks ranks on Dutton’s gas plan
The gas producer looks set to emerge as a winner under the Coalition’s gas policy, despite it being widely blamed for the risk of shortages on the east coast.
Santos Barossa delay feared as politics envelops gas
The deferral of a ruling on the North West Shelf venture has stoked fears that other gas projects will also fall victim to the fractious politics around the fossil fuel.
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Asia’s hydrogen hopes in Australia suffer another blow
Korea’s largest electric utility has failed to secure funding from the federal government’s Hydrogen Headstart for a project in Newcastle.
Labor quietly diverts $75m from hydrogen-powered truck scheme
Getting more hydrogen-powered trucks to carry freight was a key plank of Chris Bowen’s plan to decarbonise the road transport sector. It hasn’t turned out that way.
‘The big lie’: Why governments can’t deliver cheaper power
Political leaders have been promising lower power bills for two decades, but they should come clean about its true costs.
Succession question swirls around Santos chief executive
Kevin Gallagher will mark a decade at the oil group next year and analysts, fund managers and a proxy adviser want answers on who will eventually replace him.
Foreign investors banned: What else is in it for you
From a ban on foreign investors buying existing houses to pork-barrelling road projects in marginal electorates, here’s a sector breakdown of the budget.
Could offshore wind blow Alex Dyson off course?
The independent launched his political career with a dance backing renewable energy by impersonating a windmill. Today, he’s dancing to a different tune. Voters say that won’t work.
BHP’s Mount Arthur closure plans face pushback from politicians, union
The massive thermal coal operation would be closed at the end of the decade under plans lodged by the resources giant, which wants to build a hydroelectric dam.
Winter gas threat pushed out but shortages loom
The energy market operator expects winter gas shortages to hit Victoria in 2028 and predicts a serious energy shock without new investment. Queensland says it will keep coal-fired power stations open longer.
The AI economy has a massive vulnerability
Subsea cables channel data and power, but they face escalating dangers, and multiple incidents in the past few months have highlighted those risks.
Victoria’s energy challenge explained (in 7 charts)
The state has been powered by vast reserves of cheap oil, gas and brown coal. But it faces blackouts in coming years – here’s how that happened.
New Hope soars on signs the worst is over for coal prices
Thermal coal prices may have slumped 77 per cent over the past two-and-a-half years, but New Hope defied the trend with higher volumes, profits and dividends.
Looming threat to curb Queensland LNG exports spurs new drilling
The concern among Queensland’s LNG exporters about a crackdown on Asian sales contract renewals is pushing them to drill for new gas to supply domestic customers.
Lack of carbon border tax could force jobs offshore
Australia’s cement producers say the government’s “highest climate policy priority” before the budget should be a carbon border tax to protect local jobs.
Transgrid seeks government support for vital $700m grid investment
Transgrid CEO Brett Redman says the company needs NSW government and regulatory support to proceed with investments without blowing-up its credit rating.
Private jets and public virtue: unspinning Cannon-Brookes on climate
The MCB playbook is clear: acknowledge contradictions before critics turn them into weapons, overwhelm with technical solutions, reframe luxury as sacrifice, and wealth as the solution.
Ministers’ push on energy prices could hurt most customers: retailers
Energy retailers said cutting a flagged power price increase would result in higher prices for customers on discounted deals after ministers urged the regulator to dig into a big jump in their costs.
Green bank backs electrification, but offshore wind too risky
Clean Energy Finance Corporation chief executive Ian Learmonth says the $33 billion fund has shifted towards supporting household electrification and major poles and wire projects vital to Australia’s green energy transition.
Forrest’s Squadron takes swing at APA in secret ministerial submission
In a secret ministerial submission, Squadron complained that APA is creating a false sense of security amid plans for LNG gas to be imported to the south-east.
Consumers trapped by rising cost of energy failure and power bills
Power prices will be a key election topic as Labor sells the benefits of renewables and the Coalition insists nuclear offers the only affordable answer. But under both plans, it’s customers who will pay.
Don’t want another Cyclone Alfred? This data says one’s coming
Hot temperatures in the world’s oceans are making storms and cyclones more destructive. Australia is uniquely vulnerable.