Electricity
- Analysis
- Australia votes
The key issues that will define the election – and where the major parties stand
Tax is a latecomer to the campaign agenda, Medicare has taken centre stage, and a nuclear energy fight will keep climate change in the conversation.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
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Battery ‘bill buster’ for millions of households, but renters and cash-strapped may miss out
The Albanese government has made an election pitch to slash power bills and accelerate the grid’s shift to cleaner sources of energy.
- Nick Toscano
Labor to subsidise home batteries up to $4000 for households
The prime minister is doubling down on his clean energy ambitions in response to criticisms of soaring power bills.
- Mike Foley
- Exclusive
- Australia votes
Labor takes power bill election fight in-house with help to buy home batteries
Households are set to gain federal help to cut their energy bills under a government plan to make it easier for them to buy home batteries.
- Paul Sakkal and David Crowe
Australians to get $150 energy bill relief as Albanese seeks to mask price hike pain
With power prices set to rise by as much as $200 a year, the Albanese government’s latest cost-of-living pledge comes as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton seeks to remind voters that Labor has failed to bring prices down.
- Natassia Chrysanthos
- Exclusive
- Renewables
The campaign battle over the next step to cheaper power bills
Teal independent Sophie Scamps wants financial support to underwrite the cost of household batteries - and both major parties are working on it.
- Mike Foley
- Analysis
- Australia votes
Politicians have been telling us powerful lies for years. It’s about to get worse
Australians have been misled about power prices for years – and the fake claims will get worse now the election campaign is so close.
- David Crowe
Power bills set to rise by up to $200 in election headache for Albanese
The spectre of power prices jumping in July will loom over the federal election campaign widely expected to begin within weeks.
- Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Electricity prices are set to rise. Here’s how you can save money
With hundreds of thousands of customers set to be impacted from July 1, here are some tips from energy experts that will lessen the blow.
- Gemma Grant
Giant batteries are coming to Australia, bringing 24/7 renewables a ‘step closer’
A major green energy investor will bring some of the world’s most powerful batteries, which could run for twice as long as today’s biggest systems, to Australia.
- Nick Toscano
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