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The Macquarie Telecom data centre in Sydney’s Macquarie Park.

AI energy demand to grow tenfold

The surge in data centre growth will drive up emissions and electricity costs unless it is properly managed.

  • Nick O'Malley

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The market operator has warned of cost blow outs due to energy project delays.

Renewables delays drive electricity cost blow out

The energy market operator warns that slow project development could keep coal in the grid longer and add billions of dollars to energy costs.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
he federal government has selected sites for the first wind farms off the Gippsland coast. The projects could one day resemble this Danish wind farm.

SEC fires up first public power asset since ’90s, but wind plans hit as AGL scraps Gippsland project

AGL-backed Gippsland Skies consortium is the third joint venture to walk away from early-stage studies for an offshore wind farm in Victoria.

  • Kieran Rooney and Nick Toscano
The rollout of renewable energy projects and thousands of kilometres of extra power lines to link them to major cities is running behind schedule.

Households face power price hike without urgent renewables push

Australians are being warned of higher power prices from 2030 unless governments speed up the delivery of renewables, transmission lines and batteries.

  • Nick Toscano
Victoria’s auditor-general has warned the state will not meet its offshore wind targets.

Victoria will miss 2032 offshore wind targets, likely to face electricity shortfalls: report

There is still no port approved to support the assembly of wind turbines, and the government had also delayed offshore wind auctions, meant to start this year.

  • Kieran Rooney
A turbine at the Eraring coal plant in NSW.

Blackout risk: Grid ‘not ready’ for coal plant closures, solar surge

Concerns grow over maintaining stable electricity flow after the closure of the nation’s biggest coal plant, Eraring, in 2027.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
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New NSW Liberal leader Kellie Sloane.

After 14 years in TV journalism, Kellie Sloane says politics is a ‘walk in the park’

The new NSW Liberal leader on what drives her, what she said to make Mark Speakman stand down, death threats and making mistakes.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Solar systems have been getting cheaper.

Price shocks force factories to dump gas for cleaner energy

Industrial energy users are starting to turn away from natural gas after a jump in prices, and as solar systems, batteries and heat pumps become cheaper.

  • Nick Toscano
WA Premier Roger Cook

Environment reforms ‘could have been worse’ as WA gets first shot at faster approvals

Premier Roger Cook insists WA will not be disadvantaged under the Greens-backed environment reforms, and confirmed the state would be first to negotiate a fast-tracked approvals agreement with the Commonwealth.

  • Carla Hildebrandt and Michael Philipps
Record levels of renewable energy in the electricity grid are displacing coal and driving down emissions.

Australia records biggest annual drop in emissions outside pandemic

Record output from renewable energy means emissions from coal plants are down as Australia’s greenhouse output has fallen for the first time in years.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

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