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‘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

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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
Power prices

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
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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
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says she is confident the lights- and air-conditioning- will stay on over the summer.

NSW faces a long hot summer. Will we have enough power to keep the air-con on?

NSW’s Labor Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is nothing more than a “hope and a prayer”.

  • Alexandra Smith
Australia’s major coal-fired power plant owners have doubts about the timing of Peter Dutton’s plan to transition to nuclear power.

Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.

  • Mike Foley
The Kemerton Battery Energy Storage System was approved by the WA regional Development Assessment Panel on December 4.

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

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