Several years of energy rebates have been dished out to Australian households and businesses to make rising power bills more politically palatable. One major industry player has called for an end to subsidy sweeteners.
Australia’s energy operator and one of the country’s biggest industrial users have issued election-eve warnings on gas shortages, demanding more supply be brought online to keep the lights on and ease soaring price pressures.
Portland is one of Australia’s biggest energy users but one of the co-owners of the aluminium smelter has concerns about batteries filling the void between coal and renewables.
The CEO of US aluminium giant Alcoa is at the very front lines of a global trade war. Bill Oplinger has offered a revealing insight on navigating the new world.
One of Europe’s biggest ever power outages hit Spain and Portugal this week, reigniting a deep political divide over Australia’s own energy future.
In just five seconds, a power grid supplying nearly 60 million people collapsed. Spain in 2025 is a flashing warning light for the electricity system we’re building around weather-dependent generation.
Labor offered Equinor 90 days to decide whether to accept an offshore wind licence offer in NSW – enough time for the election to be decided and for it to walk away if the Coalition wins.
Proponents wanting to build big solar and wind farms in Queensland must first secure a ‘social licence’ from local communities, under new laws to be introduced in state parliament.
Solar energy was powering the grid in Spain and Portugal on Monday — until it wasn’t, leaving tens of millions without electricity.
An Australian Energy Market Commission report calls for a detailed plan that specifies what resources are needed to prepare for the expected closure of all remaining coal-fired generators.
Federal Labor has pledged upfront subsidies for battery backups to domestic solar systems but even with all the assistance, is it worth the outlay? James Gerrard crunches the numbers.
Just like the great wool stockpile of the 1990s, a mountain of government-owned rare earths can do more damage to a fragile market.
Peter Dutton does not need to visit the site of a proposed nuclear power plant during the campaign because the policy is popular in those communities, Nationals leader David Littleproud has claimed.
The Opposition Leader has committed another campaign blunder, wrongly declaring the Coalition would retain Labor’s tax breaks for electric vehicles.
Woodside’s board is in the firing line as CEO Meg O’Neill hopes for North West Shelf certainty ahead of another AGM marked by big police presence.
Billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll have more time for Tesla and pushing for lower tariffs as he scrambles to move from MAGA waste slasher, back to a visionary tech boss. But is it too late?
In order to survive, Australia’s timber industry needs to get bigger and much smarter, the former Treasury boss says.
Fortescue has started work on one of the giant solar farms it needs to turn iron ore mines green and is forking out $350m for electric drill rigs.
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