Coal
Strung out: Power line problems put nation’s renewable rollout on backburner
Cost blowouts and delays on key transmission-line projects are risking Australian coal plants staying open for longer, and sending greenhouse emissions in the wrong direction.
- Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
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With coal’s demise in WA set, can renewables step up to fill the gap?
A new report warns WA is falling well short of renewable energy generation requirements, while the energy market operator’s assessment of the state’s electricity generation needs identifies a looming shortfall.
- Hamish Hastie
Old king coal is spluttering as power plants age out of usefulness
Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of electricity, but the owners of coal plants are increasingly unlikely to spend money to make them reliable.
- Mike Foley
‘Fork in the road’: How a failed nuclear plot locked in Australia’s renewable future
Australians have voted for something that will outlive the next election: the guaranteed switch from coal to renewable energy.
- Nick Toscano
Griffin Coal set to deplete $220 million in WA taxpayer support nine months early
Premier Roger Cook revealed to parliament that the government had so far made $182.7 million worth of payments from the $220 million support package for Griffin Coal.
- Hamish Hastie
Coal to power Queensland ‘as long as sensible and needed’
Treasurer David Janetzki says the LNP will take a more aggressive approach to using fossil fuels and extend the use of gas and coal.
- Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
Higher power bills to kick in from July
Price caps for the hardest-hit electricity regions will spike 9.7 per cent for the coming 12 months.
- Mike Foley
- Analysis
- Climate policy
The rumours were true: China’s greenhouse gas emissions are falling
Suspicions were first reported last year that the world’s biggest greenhouse gas polluter was managing to cut its emissions five years earlier than planned.
- Nick O'Malley
Power prices surge as coal and clean energy supply falters
Wholesale energy prices hit new highs months before the federal election, further intensifying the cost-of-living clash between Labor and the Coalition.
- Mike Foley
- Exclusive
- Fossil fuels
Ageing coal generator fleet spells trouble for power outages
The Climate Council says coal outages are primary drivers of power shortage warnings, particularly in summer, and have contributed to some of the largest power price spikes along the eastern seaboard
- Bianca Hall
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