Power network
Mass power outages plunge thousands across WA into darkness on long weekend
As the mercury is predicted to soar to 37 degrees on Tuesday, thousands of residents are still without power and are worried and frustrated at the delays.
- Holly Thompson
Latest
Big BESS: State’s largest power bank to be built in WA’s South West
A $400 million Battery Energy Storage System will use lithium-ion battery technology to support the WA power grid through wind and solar energy.
- Claire Ottaviano
‘You know my position’: The other question the LNP struggles with
David Crisafulli will not say whether – or how – he would thwart Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear reactors in Queensland.
- William Davis
How a country of 10 million people was left without power
The entire population of Cuba was plunged into a countrywide blackout on Friday. But how did it get to this point?
- Dave Sherwood
Florence the machine to get a boring friend at Snowy 2.0
A fourth giant tunnelling machine will be added to the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro project in a bid to keep it on track.
- Mike Foley
- Opinion
- Opinion
Western Power ignored my broken meter and made wild guesses at my usage instead
I wasn’t too worried about the issue at first. But when I saw the bills showing Synergy getting creative on how much power it decided I used, I got uneasy.
- Sarah Brookes
- Exclusive
- Perth
Bill shock: Why almost 50,000 West Australians could be paying more than they should for power
Bill estimation is common practice around the world, but just how prevalent is it in WA?
- Sarah Brookes
- Opinion
- Power outage
Victoria’s blackout crisis is rooted in a decade of Coalition inaction
These mass outages would have been avoided, or their impact dramatically reduced with a shortened recovery period, if we’d had large-scale investment in transitioning the electricity grid to renewables.
- Tim Buckley
Court dismisses environmental challenge to Snowy Hydro 2.0 power lines
The NSW government exempted the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme from a long-standing ban on above ground transmission lines. Now a legal bid to overturn that decision has failed.
- Michael Koziol
- Explainer
- Energy prices
How your electricity bill gets worked out
Supplying the demand for power in homes can be a high-intensity balancing act. Why aren’t renewables making our bills cheaper? What’s behind the cost of our power?
- Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
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