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Strike Chairman John Poynton, Resources Minister Madeleine King, Strike chief executive Stuart Nicholls and operations superintendent Ben Hoile at the company’s Walyering Processing Facility. 

Why the outback could become home for Asian data centres

Paddocks in the middle of Western Australia could become home to a new kind of shed: high-tech data centres offering computing power to cities throughout Asia.

  • Tom Rabe
Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria isn’t waiting to see the terms of a review into Australia’s National Electricity Market.

How to keep Australia pumping for another 25 years, and the lights on

The Origin Energy boss has been in his industry and job long enough to know when to fly kites.

  • Anthony Macdonald

October

Zenith Energy designs, builds and operates power solutions for remote mine sites.

Energy heavyweights banker up for $2b Zenith Energy auction

A couple of sector gorillas have mandated financial advisers for help with due diligence and funding.  

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Mark Hutchinson says the market is unlikely to invest in nuclear power.

‘I have let you down’: Fortescue’s Hutchinson apologises to gay staff

Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest says his leaders are required to back equality, prompting a mea culpa from energy boss Mark Hutchinson.

  • Peter Ker
Liontown Resources’ Kathleen Valley lithium mine, for which Zenith built a hybrid offsite plant.

PEP, OPTrust pound the pavement for $2b Zenith Energy’s equity search

Zenith builds remote power stations for miners, but has ambitions to power above-ground haulage fleets and other mining processes in the medium term.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
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Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien at the Energy and Climate Summit.

Coalition says king coal to stay on the throne

The Coalition’s nuclear policy gets most of the attention, but the future of coal will have a starring role in the continuing climate wars.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Queensland’s gas pipeline to the southern states is at capacity.

Gas shows the way to more renewables

There’s increasing focus on the crucial role of gas to support the energy transition. But bankers and politicians are yet to get the message.

  • Jennifer Hewett
EnergyAustralia’s Yallourn Power Station in the Latrobe Valley is at the centre of a secret deal with the Victorian government.

AGL, EnergyAustralia coal power deals with Victoria kept secret

The Victorian Labor government has been slammed for keeping secret the cost of deals to underwrite the state’s two coal-fired power plants.

  • Patrick Durkin
Analysts say the swift rise of natural gas-powered trucks, particularly heavy-duty vehicles of 14 tonnes and above, has helped thrust China past peak diesel demand.

Rapid rise of LNG trucking pushes China to peak diesel

While the country’s rapid adoption of electric cars has been in the spotlight, significant change has also been taking place in China’s freight industry.

  • Ryan McMorrow, Tina Hu and Edward White
Tiwi Islanders holding a banner they made to protest the Barossa gas project.

Federal Court orders EDO to release 3200 documents in financier search

Santos has been pursuing the activist legal firm, which represented Tiwi Islanders in a failed attempt to stop a $5.8 billion gas project, to find its backers.

  • Ayesha de Kretser and Elouise Fowler
An estimated 15 per cent of China’s oil imports come from Iran, according to Andon Pavlov, senior refining and oil products analyst at Kpler, a firm in Vienna that specialises in tracking Iran’s oil shipments.

China buys nearly all of Iran’s oil exports

The roughly $2.9 billion of sales a month to China bankroll the Iranian government and provide the cash that it needs to pay for its own imports.

  • Keith Bradsher
Origin Energy chief executive Frank Calabria said the company would focus its efforts on renewable energy generation rather than hydrogen.

Origin Energy deals big blow to Australia’s hydrogen hopes

The electricity and gas giant will not proceed with a project in the Hunter, which had been shortlisted for funding as part of Labor’s $2 billion incentive scheme.

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  • Elouise Fowler and Jessica Sier
The Ocean Onyx drill rig, which is being used by oil and gas producer Beach Energy in the Otway Basin, off Victoria’s coast.

The secret plan to bring a floating LNG terminal to Melbourne

The Victorian government is examining a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the southwest of Port Phillip Bay.

  • Patrick Durkin
The fight over gas heats up: federal Minister for Resources Madeleine King and Greens leader Adam Bandt.

Boost domestic gas supply or risk the Greens, King tells producers

Resources Minister Madeleine King has warned the gas sector it risks damaging its social licence if it does not boost supply and lower prices.

  • Ronald Mizen and Tom Rabe

Peak-demand utility expands solar farm portfolio by a third

CleanPeak Energy has bought three farms from a European company listed on the Warsaw, Prague and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. 

  • Elouise Fowler
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The amount of new data centres already announced would increase the amount of supply by 4.6 times, but there are questions as to when they will be built due to energy shortfalls.

Data centre market doubling in four years is conservative: CBRE

The latest CBRE research indicates the upward trajectory of data centre growth would be even faster if not for energy shortfalls.

  • Campbell Kwan
Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in Nottingham, England, was switched off on Monday.

Britain calls time on coal power, steel mills

On a single day, the UK closed its last coal-fired power plant and its largest carbon-munching steel mill.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

September

A security guard at the Tavan Tolgoi development in Mongolia, where Jade Gas says it will drill for gas.

Drifting former telco turned Austrian miner gets unstuck in Mongolia

Jade Gas has bounced around for three decades, and is trying its luck with coal seam gas in the ex-communist country. Could this be the ASX’s next gas giant?

  • Elouise Fowler
Boral chief executive Vik Bansal has also been chairman of ASX-listed LGI for two years. The stock is up 83 per cent since its IPO.

Investors in Vik Bansal’s biogas side hustle are up 85pc

The Boral CEO is also chairman of ASX-listed biogas group LGI, which has 32 waste landfill sites and supplies electricity into the grid when returns are highest.

  • Simon Evans
With the full details of Peter Dutton’s energy policy still a secret, Energy Minister Chris Bowen is seeking to fill the void.

Bowen uses gas to fire up offensive on Coalition’s nuclear plans

Energy Minister Chris Bowen claims the Coalition’s energy plans will require spending tens of billions of dollars to build and service new gas power plants.

  • Ronald Mizen and Angela Macdonald-Smith

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