This Month
Lynas blames WA’s ‘unpredictable’ clean power for production downgrade
The Gina Rinehart-backed miner says blackouts caused by a shift away from diesel generators has curbed output of its rare earths.
October
Former AGL Energy CEO Andy Vesey exits Forrest’s Fortescue
The businessman was one of the few remaining faces from a remarkable era at the company, when it recruited high-profile people for its clean energy pivot.
September
The inevitable outcome of Labor’s Soviet-style climate plan
The government has abandoned a century of economic wisdom on climate change, shunning market-based solutions for costly, ineffective policies reminiscent of the USSR.
August
Airbus warns Australia is ‘sleepwalking into fuel crisis’
Australia imports more than a quarter of its liquid fuels from China. Global aviation giant Airbus says it can make it locally – and sustainably.
April
Woodside eyes competitive edge with US project
Woodside says its Louisiana gas project can defer tariffs under a US free trade zone, giving it a cost edge over US LNG competitors.
NSW backs BHP’s early coal mine closure
Decades of coal production will be kept in the ground after the NSW government backed BHP’s plan to shut a mine early and convert to clean energy generation.
April 2024
D’Ambrosio gas claim debunked after outburst against Labor’s King
In another Victorian clash over gas with the Albanese government, Lily D’Ambrosio accused Madeleine King of behaving like “a Coalition minister”.
February 2024
The states hold the key to Chris Bowen’s energy transition dreams
Execution of the plan will depend on the co-operation of a group of sometimes hard-to-please energy ministers.
Bowen has unfinished business as climate reform arrives
Chris Bowen’s signature Safeguard Mechanism has helped put the nation on a pathway to net zero by 2050 with an effective cap and trade scheme.
Prices have slumped, but there’s no transition without these miners
Miners are pinning their future on metals needed for decarbonisation and many are snapping up assets around Australia.
Gina Cass-Gottlieb enters the climate fray
The idea that an efficient transition to clean energy is in the public interest and could trump the ACCC’s core purpose was revolutionary to some.
Frank Calabria’s Origin reset is only just beginning
This year, Calabria is expected to spell out a new strategy to lead the country’s biggest listed electricity and gas supplier through Australia’s energy transition.
Meet the most influential figures in the energy transition
Australia’s energy transition leaders from government, business and capital markets – who are the movers and shakers in 2024?