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Businessman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest during a state dinner in Washington in September.

Trump kills Twiggy Forrest’s US green hydrogen dream

The Australian billionaire has terminated a major hydrogen project in the US as the president guts clean energy funding and unwinds efforts to fight climate change.

  • Nick Toscano

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A worker at a blast furnace at the Salzgitter AG mill in Salzgitter in Germany where green steel processes are being explored.

The PM talked up green steel. But is it even a thing?

Green steel could boost Australia’s export earnings, reduce emissions and hedge against declining coal exports in a cleaner world economy. If a lot of things go right.

  • Nick O'Malley
Janus Electric CEO Ian Campbell with an electric battery-powered truck.

Trucks are big polluters, but can batteries make them cleaner?

In 2024, trucks emitted 22 million tonnes of CO2, and the freight industry is still debating how to decarbonise the long-haul routes.

  • Angus Delaney
“The Albanese government’s decisive victory creates a historic opportunity to shift thinking and acting from the short to the long term.”

Net zero has been ground zero for energy ambition. What a chance we have now

The Albanese government’s decisive victory creates a historic opportunity to shift thinking from the short to the long term on energy and climate policy.

  • Ross Garnaut
Former Woodside chief Peter Coleman.

Coleman mulls return to Infinite Green Energy under last-ditch rescue plan

West Australian business heavyweight Peter Coleman could return to the helm of embattled hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy under an 11th-hour plan to drag it out of administration.

  • Jesinta Burton
Infinite Green Energy CEO Stephen Gauld.

Hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy collapses into administration

Perth-based hydrogen player Infinite Green Energy has brought in administrators less than 24 hours before it was due to front court in a multimillion-dollar investor dispute.

  • Jesinta Burton
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Chris Bowen, Roger Cook and Madeleine King announced four big batteries for WA that can together power 600,000 households. 

$814 million for green hydrogen dream near Kalbarri

Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen was in Kwinana to announce the Murchison Green Hydrogen project.

  • Hamish Hastie
These ochre hand stencils in a Nullarbor cave indicate the traditional ownership of the Mirning Peoples who used the cave system for shelter, ceremony, creative expression and a source of water and flint for tools.

Scientists warn $100 billion ‘green’ project will destroy WA heritage

A plan to build 3000 wind turbines and six million solar panels in WA to make hydrogen and ammonia is in an area experts call “an irreplaceable global treasure”.

  • Emma Young
This week’s Bulls N’ Bears ASX Runner of the Week is… Sparc Technologies.

Sparc fires up following three-way hydrogen tie-in

This week’s Bulls N’ Bears Runner of the Week is … Sparc Technologies. The company is developing new-age hydrogen technology using sunlight.

  • Craig Nolan
Japanese firm Kawasaki Heavy Industries has withdrawn from plan to create “clean” hydrogen from brown coal sourced from the Latrobe Valley.

Multibillion-dollar plan to convert coal into ‘clean’ hydrogen falters

The controversial plan was billed as a lifeline for the Latrobe Valley’s ageing brown coal industry.

  • Bianca Hall and Nick Toscano

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