This Month
Woodside CEO: too expensive to make deep cuts to carbon emissions
Meg O’Neill said investments in carbon capture to cut emissions at LNG plants were still $US200-$US500 a tonne, too high to be worthwhile for shareholders.
‘Doesn’t stack up’: Top investors go cold on nuclear
New data shows Australia’s top asset managers have little interest in investing in atomic energy generation.
Gas policy ‘taken over by activists’: Beach CEO
Brett Woods also took aim at politicians opposing local gas supply projects that are forcing the industry towards more emissions intensive and expensive imports.
Korean giant strikes out at gas intervention
Kogas has questioned whether it can still rely on its contracts to buy Australian LNG, given mounting government intervention in the domestic gas market.
March
Federation plots a path from asset manager to batteries developer
The investment firm is launching a multi-billion dollar platform that will specialise building and operating large, long-duration storage.
CVC DIF reconfirms offer for PEP’s Zenith; final shortlist this week
Sources said sell-side advisers RBC and Azure had told suitors they would need to raise their bids ahead of Friday’s deadline for reconfirmations of NBIOs.
Santos breaks ranks on Dutton’s gas plan
The gas producer looks set to emerge as a winner under the Coalition’s gas policy, despite it being widely blamed for the risk of shortages on the east coast.
Santos Barossa delay feared as politics envelops gas
The deferral of a ruling on the North West Shelf venture has stoked fears that other gas projects will also fall victim to the fractious politics around the fossil fuel.
Asia’s hydrogen hopes in Australia suffer another blow
Korea’s largest electric utility has failed to secure funding from the federal government’s Hydrogen Headstart for a project in Newcastle.
‘The big lie’: Why governments can’t deliver cheaper power
Political leaders have been promising lower power bills for two decades, but they should come clean about its true costs.
Succession question swirls around Santos chief executive
Kevin Gallagher will mark a decade at the oil group next year and analysts, fund managers and a proxy adviser want answers on who will eventually replace him.
Brookfield defies Trump pushback on energy transition
Brookfield, the largest owner-operator of renewables generation in Australia, says global green energy investment is unstoppable despite the return of Trump.
Could offshore wind blow Alex Dyson off course?
The independent launched his political career with a dance backing renewable energy by impersonating a windmill. Today, he’s dancing to a different tune. Voters say that won’t work.
How to power your home with your EV (and save $30,000)
A South Australian winery that’s almost entirely powered by the sun and two Nissan Leafs gives a glimpse of what a low-cost, green energy future looks like.
$800m pledge keeps Labor green hydrogen dream alive
The green fuel sector got a shot in the arm after the federal government committed more than $800 million in production incentives to a green hydrogen project.
Winter gas threat pushed out but shortages loom
The energy market operator expects winter gas shortages to hit Victoria in 2028 and predicts a serious energy shock without new investment. Queensland says it will keep coal-fired power stations open longer.
Victoria’s energy challenge explained (in 7 charts)
The state has been powered by vast reserves of cheap oil, gas and brown coal. But it faces blackouts in coming years – here’s how that happened.
Victoria’s gas switch to cost households $5.8b: report
The Allan government’s plan to force people to replace broken down appliances with electric ones could cost more than first thought, according to new research.
Looming threat to curb Queensland LNG exports spurs new drilling
The concern among Queensland’s LNG exporters about a crackdown on Asian sales contract renewals is pushing them to drill for new gas to supply domestic customers.
Australia’s allies must step up in the Indo-Pacific
Readers’ letters on dealing with Donald Trump’s isolationism, looking to Congress for tariff relief, Rio’s clean energy move, Peter Dutton’s track record, and a CANZUK alliance.