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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

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Jane Barnes, at her cool, energy-efficient home.

How you could save $3000 in power bills by making simple changes

Millions of households are missing out on cheaper bills totalling more than $23 billion each year. A few “quick fixes” can unlock your share.

  • Bianca Hall

Heard about the shock jock who’s now a clean energy champion? That’s me

I’m not an environmentalist, I’m a pragmatist. I know that clean, renewable energy makes the most sense for Australia.

  • Chris O'Keefe
Santos’ Moomba carbon capture and storage project in South Australia.

Why Japan’s power plants want to bury their emissions in the outback

The start-up of a giant project to bury carbon dioxide in the desert has given Santos greater confidence as it progresses talks with Japan’s big emitters.

  • Nick Toscano
Woodside CEO Meg O’Neill.

Woodside hits pause on two planned US green energy projects

Australia’s top oil and gas company is slowing its foray into ambitious green energy projects amid a global pullback.

  • Nick Toscano
Donald Trump is on the cusp of a second term.

Lights, camera, Village People: Excitement on the eve of Trump’s inauguration and day one orders

Donald Trump’s second inauguration foreshadows a promised crackdown on the US-Mexico border, pardons for partisan supporters and the end of diversity policies in government.

  • Farrah Tomazin and Michael Koziol
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Star of the South, 10 kilometres off Gippsland’s south coast, is the most advanced offshore wind project in Australia.

Trump plans to ban offshore wind turbines. It could be good for Australia

A Republican congressman says he has already drafted the executive order for the president to sign within his first few months in office.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Peter Dutton says the nuclear waste problem is not his to solve.

There’s a gaping hole in Dutton’s nuclear plan. He says it’s Albanese’s problem to solve

Those who fear they will bear the burden of his nuclear power scheme want answers from the opposition leader.

  • Julia Carr-Catzel
WA billionaire Andrew Forrest launched a defence of his iron ore company, Fortescue, and his charity, Minderoo, in the wake of the lawsuit.

Forrest hits back after Minderoo dragged into ExxonMobil defamation row

Andrew Forrest has come out swinging in defence of his charity, Minderoo, after it became embroiled in a defamation suit levelled by ExxonMobil.

  • Jesinta Burton
The Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in the UK, the country’s first in two decades.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

  • Mike Foley

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