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Robert Lervasi MD of SPC.

Food producers taking a hit on power prices in Victoria

Victoria-based food, juice and infant formula maker SPC Global says power price rises are out of whack with other states, and that’s hurting the bottom line.

  • Patrick Durkin
Project EnergyConnect (pictured)

Why Transgrid’s $4.1b EnergyConnect is a huge problem

The massive cost blowout of Australia’s largest energy transmission project will come at the expense of energy consumers.

  • Ted Woodley

Yesterday

Premier Jacinta Allan.

Allan forced to release Victoria’s secret solar modelling

The Victorian government has released secret energy modelling warning about the impact of rooftop solar on the energy grid after a one-year legal battle.

  • Gus McCubbing and Patrick Durkin
The Kwinana heavy industrial area south of Perth started with BP refining oil in 1955.

WA Labor calls for federal support to revive BP green fuel project

The Albanese government must do more to support Western Australia’s fledgling biofuels industry, Premier Roger Cook says.

  • Tom Rabe

This Month

BP will

BP puts its $600m Perth clean fuel refinery plans on ice

The British petroleum giant had expected to decide on the development later this year, but said on Monday that it would delay work on the project.

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  • Tom Rabe
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Severe storms swept across Victoria including Phillip Island, leaving more than 45,000 homes and businesses without power amid a heatwave.

Frustrated Sims warned Victoria on gas shortages a decade ago

The former ACCC head says his warnings to Victorian Labor were ignored, as wild storms in the state left more than 45,000 homes and businesses without power. 

  • Patrick Durkin
Melburnians enjoying the beach at Williamstown on Sunday as the temperature soared past 36 degrees.

Victoria on blackout alert amid south-east heatwave

A three-day heatwave across south-east Australia is expected to push Victoria’s energy grid to the limit with experts urging the government to secure gas supplies.

  • Patrick Durkin

January

NextDC chief executive Craig Scroggie says DeepSeek, or other more efficient AI models would still ultimately use the same amount of power overall.

DeepSeek dents outlook for AI-fuelled power boom

NextDC’s CEO says data centre power use will not fall after US energy stocks were smashed by expectations DeepSeek will pierce AI-fuelled electricity demand.

  • Angela Macdonald-Smith and Paul Smith
Donald Trump’s antagonism to renewable energy is most obvious when it comes to wind power.

How Trump’s war on green energy affects Australia

Donald Trump’s plans for an energy revolution will blow strong political winds across Australia’s energy market.

  • Jennifer Hewett
President Donald Trump signs an executive order relating to cryptocurrency in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

War room, webinars: Corporate America tries to cope with Trump blitz

Businesses have been left trying to nail down what the tax, immigration, DEI and energy orders will mean for them.

  • Stephen Foley, James Fontanella-Khan and Jamie Smyth
People in Davos following Mr Trump’s virtual speech.

Trump slams Europe, threatens ‘trillions’ in tariffs

The president lambasted Canada’s trade surplus with the US and also fired a verbal volley at the European Union’s restrictions on his country.

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  • Hans van Leeuwen
Stuart Nicholls has quit as chief executive of Strike Energy.

Strike Energy boss to exit after gas producer’s torrid year

The Perth Basin explorer and developer has commissioned a strategic review of its business overseen by the company’s deputy chairman, Nev Power.

  • Mark Wembridge
WA Environment and Energy Minister Reece Whitby in his office.

‘Gas is good’: Meet WA’s pragmatic environment minister

Reece Whitby sees no contradiction in extending the life of massive offshore gas operations while championing the state’s renewable energy future.

  • Tom Rabe

December 2024

There is no shortage of horror stories about nuclear plant cost blow outs but there are also excellent recent examples of projects that are far less costly.

Why the critics are wrong about nuclear costings

I stand by the analysis that shows on a system-wide average economic cost basis, including nuclear remains cheaper than a renewables only system.

  • Danny Price
Green hydrogen proponents have pushed back on Coalition assumptions that the industry won’t exist by 2050.

‘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
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The WA govenrment has approved the extension of the North West Shelf plant near Karratha.

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
Hitting it for six: The minimum standard of six star thermal efficiency ratings set in 2010 was upgraded to 7 stars last year.

Older, ‘cheaper’ houses hide costs that bite owners

More than 80 per cent of Australia’s houses have half the energy efficiency of the latest standards – and that’s going to make them less valuable.

  • Michael Bleby
for sale sign: The Victorian government wants to sell the operating rights to its Mt Baw Baw and Lake Mountain alpine resorts. 

Why Victoria will struggle to sell Mount Baw Baw alpine resort

More than one-third of the resort’s commercial sites are vacant and it doesn’t have enough power to use them all, business owners say.

  • Michael Bleby

November 2024

People watch as the sun rises over Ben Buckler Point in Bondi on November 27, 2024 in Sydney, Australia.

Energy efforts run into reality

The risk of power blackouts is real and rising this summer – along with the costs of frantically trying to avoid that happening,

  • Jennifer Hewett
Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group. Hindenburg alleges that through an opaque network, Adani associates controlled large swathes of the empire, posing as arms-length investors,

Adani charged in US over ‘massive’ bribery scheme

Prosecutors accused the Indian billionaire and others of lying to investors and offering millions in kickbacks to land lucrative renewable energy contracts.

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  • Joe Miller and Stefania Palma

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