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Electric vehicle sales have slowed.

Cost-of-living crisis meets new era of electric cars

Customers are voting with their wallets and continuing to buy more clean cars despite a tougher economic outlook.

  • Mike Foley

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The Hinkley C nuclear plant under construction in the UK, the country’s first in two decades.

The $80 billion question buried in Dutton’s nuclear power plan

The public could be left with a big clean-up bill after the opposition’s proposed nuclear reactors reach the end of their life.

  • Mike Foley
Motorists in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane are being stung with higher prices than in other cities in Australia.

Motorists play petrol lotto as stations pump up prices in big cities

A motorist advocate says there’s no reason why petrol is so much more expensive in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne than in other cities.

  • Mike Foley
Power bills.

The one easy thing you could do to save $317 a year on your bills

Households prepared to switch energy providers are saving 17 per cent more than their loyal counterparts, according to the competition watchdog.

  • Millie Muroi
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
Eastern Australia is running out of gas, leaving little choice but to import it, either from ourselves or overseas.

‘Time is running out’: Victoria, NSW turn to gas imports as energy crisis nears

Governments are rushing to kickstart Australia’s first-ever gas imports, despite the nation being a top global exporter of the fossil fuel.

  • Nick Toscano
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People feeling the pinch are resorting to eating basic meals at home and dining out less.

What’s happened to the cost of living is trickier than you think

While we complain about “the cost of living”, the mugs who elected Donald Trump again were on about “inflation”. Aren’t they the same thing? Maybe, maybe not.

  • Ross Gittins
AGL is one of Australia’s largest power and gas suppliers.

Energy giant AGL fined a record $25m for wrongly taking welfare money

AGL, one of the nation’s biggest energy retailers, has been dealt a record fine of $25 million for wrongly taking money from hundreds of welfare recipients.

  • Nick Toscano
Peter Dutton and the price of nuclear power.

The Coalition told the CSIRO to redo its nuclear report. It’s bad news for Dutton

Peter Dutton’s Coalition wanted new modelling on the cost of nuclear energy. The CSIRO obliged, but the opposition leader won’t like the results.

  • Mike Foley
The CSIRO has said renewables deliver the cheapest electricity and a nuclear plant would cost up to $16 billion to build.

Dutton to claim nuclear rollout will end up cheaper than renewables

The opposition leader will reveal his costings for seven nuclear plants as soon as next week.

  • Paul Sakkal

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