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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

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US President Donald Trump.

When it comes to energy, Donald Trump is China’s useful idiot

Trump’s plans to “drill, baby, drill” at the expense of clean energy is a blessing for China. For at least the next four years, the US is withdrawing from the greatest economic battle of our time.

  • Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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
US President Donald Trump signs a slew of executive orders on the first day of his presidency.

Trump is ditching climate action, again. This time, there are ways to fight back

Within hours of his inauguration, the US president issued executive orders to withdraw from the UN treaty and expand fossil fuels. Australia should not be tempted to follow suit.

  • Caitlin Fitzsimmons
The apartment-specific rebate - which will be replicated in NSW - covers up to 75 per cent, and in some cases all, of the cost of installing panels. It is open until February next year.

Why do so few apartments in Sydney and Melbourne have cost-saving solar panels?

It’s a question that has long frustrated governments and apartment dwellers, particularly as Australia is a world leader in rooftop solar.

  • Simon Johanson
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
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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
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
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in Perth last week.

Albanese’s $2 billion counter bid for a power-hungry industry

Labor will offer $2 billion to help aluminium smelters shift to renewable energy, contrasting the subsidies with the Coalition plan to build nuclear power stations.

  • David Crowe
Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie, who joined the ceremony at the recent Brisbane International, has interrupted his holidays to halt work on three renewable energy projects.

‘Complex and significant’: Wind farm projects halted by LNP government

Queensland Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie may be on leave, but that hasn’t stopped him intervening in the assessment of renewable energy projects.

  • Sean Parnell

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