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Blowouts for key transmission lines is risking further extensions to coal plants and increased greenhouse emissions from the energy grid.

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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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during a visit to view the Collie Battery Energy Storage System at the Collie Power Station during the federal election campaign this year. Storage is one thing, a new report warns, but more renewable generation is needed.

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
An unexpected power outage hit th Yallourn coal plant this week

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 is burning through its taxpayer cash.

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
The Dawson mine in Queensland that Anglo American owns in a joint venture.

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
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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
A solar power station on the outskirts of Golmud, Qinghai province.

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
Wholesale power prices surged in the last three months of 2024.

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
Coal power is becoming increasingly unreliable in Australia as generators age.

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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