This Month
Gladstone industrial action threatens LNG exports
Any disruption to shipments from the Queensland port could temporarily boost gas supplies for the domestic market just as the ACCC is warning of potential shortages in the southern states.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Gas price warning as winter shortages loom for Victoria
ACCC’s warnings that consumers face higher prices as the southern states start to rely on imports have been rejected by the country’s leading LNG importer.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Power price surge adds to ‘headwinds’ for energy bills
Average wholesale electricity prices doubled in the December quarter, with NSW suffering the biggest jump amid a run of hot weather and coal unit outages.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Exxon accuses Forrest-linked charity of helping billionaire’s interests
The oil and gas giant has described philanthropic organisations connected to the businessman as “corrupting influence of foreign money”. They deny those claims.
- Tom Rabe
LNG exporters brace for wave of new supply
The consensus view that LNG producers are in for some lean years amid a surge in output has been challenged by some analysts.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Energy transition
Engie woos data centres to set up near wind and solar farms
The French utility giant has ambitious plans to help meet Australia’s clean energy targets, but its executives say we need to think outside the box to get there.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Australian hydrogen hopefuls catch a break from US tax credit rules
Local proponents of the green fuel have been encouraged by the US government’s billions of dollars in tax credits which now come with fewer conditions attached.
- Mark Wembridge
December 2024
Milestone reached to unlock Snowy 2.0 power
The government’s green bank has committed its single biggest investment to the HumeLink transmission project, which is considered critical to the cleaner energy transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
California PE Angeleno buys into Aussie energy software biz
Rennie Advisory advised on the raising, conducting a global search for a minority partner to take AZZO to the United States.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Woodside, Chevron in WA LNG shake-up
A deal between the pair should pave the way for more gas supplies to flow into the North West Shelf, while supporting dividend payouts to Woodside shareholders.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Nickel shutdowns ease WA’s gas shortage fears
While gas for Western Australia’s domestic users is adequate for the next few years, a shortfall may emerge in 2028, the market operator says.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
New pipeline unlocks Beetaloo gas for NT customers in 2026
A deal signed with pipeline owner APA Group looks set to stoke controversy over the development of a massive new onshore gas resource.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
EnergyAustralia’s fight for future of NSW coal plant
The large Mount Piper generator may be needed by the market for another 15 years, but in a vastly different role that will require policy support.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘Negative and wrong’: Green hydrogen players rebut Coalition claims
Green hydrogen advocates have pushed back on assumptions the industry won’t exist by 2050, which is a central premise underpinning the Coalition’s nuclear modelling.
- Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
Nuclear costing suffers from flawed assumptions
Readers’ letters on the true cost of nuclear power, the unending energy debate, whingeing CEOs, earning trust, Peter Dutton’s flag stance, Victoria’s economy, and the impact of the kakistocracy.
- Analysis
- Nuclear energy
Forget the logistics, Dutton is selling a concept
If the Coalition’s plan for nuclear energy sounds too good to be true, it probably is, but it will be two and a half decades before we’ll know for sure.
- Phillip Coorey
WA government green lights Woodside’s North West Shelf extension
The West Australian government has given Woodside the green light to extend the life of its North West Shelf gas processing facility.
- Tom Rabe
- Investigation
- Governance
Inside the ‘unending chaos’ at Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue
After a frenetic world tour, the billionaire had to wind back his hydrogen plans. A Financial Review investigation looks at what led to an exodus of executives.
- Primrose Riordan
- Opinion
- Renewables
Why people really decide to install solar panels
In an ideal world we would not need to be prodded into greener behaviour. But in many cases, the social contagion effect is a key motivator.
- Pilita Clark
The human factor holding up wind power project
A bottleneck is emerging in Western Australia’s transmission infrastructure pipeline, an industry source has warned.
- Tom Rabe
- Exclusive
- Gas
PNG PM’s big hopes for delayed LNG project
James Marape reported “good progress” in reducing a 50 per cent cost blowout that delayed the Papua LNG project, but doubts remain on its timing.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Letters to the Editor
The case against nuclear energy is convincing
Readers’ letters on the CSIRO’s latest assessment of nuclear power, antisemitism, big business and productivity, and safeguarding essential food supplies.
Revamped Potentia Energy scours market for big battery investments
The company once known as Enel Green Power Australia has plenty of cash to splash on renewable assets.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
CSIRO doubles down on nuclear power as too costly, slow
The science agency’s latest report on future energy needs comes just ahead of the long-awaited costings for Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith