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Frontier’s modelling has also flipped the script about uncosted energy policy.

Nuclear costings put heat on uncosted renewables plan

Both sides of politics should end the charade of promising cheaper power prices while debating the least costly transition to a net zero economy.

  • The AFR View

Nuclear play snares energy industry in political pincers

Peter Dutton is betting big on nuclear power. Labor labels this economic insanity. And the public won’t believe either party’s estimates of what will be cheaper.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton with Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien, left, and Nationals Leader David Littleproud, right.

No nuclear without Labor’s help: Dutton

The opposition leader admits his nuclear timeline could do with bipartisan support, while critics have panned the policy.

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  • Phillip Coorey
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton accused the CSIRO of “bagging” his party’s nuclear energy plan on Monday.

Fears nuclear power ‘may stop people moving to the bush’

Regional Australia is having its “phoenix moment” as more people move to the bush, but some residents fear the Coalition’s nuclear plan could hinder growth.

  • Stephanie Gardiner
Andrew Forrest is the executive chairman of Fortescue and owns a sprawling renewables development business in Squadron Energy.

Andrew Forrest-backed wind farm gets taxpayer revenue guarantee

Energy Minister Chris Bowen will on Wednesday announce 19 projects to get the guarantee, but a new report says environmental laws are causing major project delays.

  • Ronald Mizen
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Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien.

Liberals dismiss CSIRO’s latest nuclear costings as ‘political’

The CSIRO’s latest appraisal of the Coalition’s nuclear power plans fails to detail the comparative cost of Labor’s renewable rollout, the Liberals say.

  • Phillip Coorey

November

Tim Nelson and three other experts have been tasked with rewriting the rules for the National Energy Market.

‘Nothing’s off the table’: Expert panel to overhaul electricity market

Energy Minister Chris Bowen has tapped former AGL Energy executive Tim Nelson and three other industry specialists to review the National Energy Market.

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  • Angela Macdonald-Smith
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen.

Emissions fell at one-fifth rate needed to achieve 2030 target: CCA

Emissions fell by 20 per cent of the 15 million tonnes the Climate Change Authority says is needed to achieve Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target.

  • Ronald Mizen
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Supersized renewables auction helps deliver 2030 emissions target

The government will reach its 2030 emissions target due after pumping taxpayers’ money into the Capacity Investment Scheme.

  • Phillip Coorey
Malcolm Turnbull said the federal government had to stand up for Australia’s national interest in order to be credible.

Signing nuclear deal would shred Australia’s credibility: Turnbull

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says Australia must make its own decisions, not embrace domestic nuclear power to please its allies.

  • Tom McIlroy and Paul Smith
Senator Ralph Babet: COP attendee.

Coal lobbyist sends Ralph Babet to COP29

The Coalition for Conservation – chaired by coal lobbyist Larry Anthony - sent the fringe Senator to Baku.

  • Myriam Robin
Transgrid CEO Brett Redmond, running for the board of the Clean Energy Council

Bonfire of the rent-seekers at the Clean Energy Council

The peak renewables industry group is seeking four new directors. Some 37 want on.

  • Mark Di Stefano

October

Donald Trump in 2017, when he lifted an Obama-era policy that curtailed the financing of coal-fired power plants overseas.

Trump is the elephant in the room on climate targets

The US election result next week will influence the world’s global climate change action plans, including Australia.

  • John Kehoe
Matt Kean accused “delay mongers” of latching on to the more expensive nuclear option to hold up the rollout of wind and solar renewables.

O’Brien misses chance to detail the case for nuclear

The summit was a missed opportunity for the Coalition to give more information on the proposed nuclear option to a room full of stakeholders who want policy certainty.

  • The AFR View
Oppositon energy spokesman Ted O’Brien at the Energy and Climate Summit.

Coalition pledges nuclear details before Christmas

The sheer upfront cost of nuclear energy requires taxpayers to build and own the seven nuclear power plants, the opposition says.

  • Phillip Coorey
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Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien speaks on Tuesday.

Only the Coalition has credible plan to close coal

Labor’s real game plan is to “extend and pretend”.

  • Ted O'Brien
Whether nuclear power should help replace retiring coal power stations is a major topic of debate.

Cheaper power, better pay in towns that house nuclear: Coalition

Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien puts forward his case for nuclear power.

  • Phillip Coorey
Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen speaks at the Energy & Climate Summit in Sydney.

‘All-too-hardism’ clouds the energy transition’s bigger picture

Chris Bowen’s opening address to The Australian Financial Review’s Energy & Climate Summit took issue with a “pessimistic” narrative.

  • The AFR View
Chris Bowen won’t say when we will see the 2035 emissions reduction target.

2035 emissions target unlikely before election, Bowen suggests

Chris Bowen has hinted that Australia’s 2035 emissions reduction target won’t be announced until later next year.

  • Phillip Coorey
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says the 2030 targets can be met.

Labor supersizes renewables auction to get climate targets on track

Energy Minister Chris Bowen insists the target for 82 per cent of Australia’s power generation to come from renewables by 2030 can be hit.

  • Phillip Coorey and Angela Macdonald-Smith

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