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Like other coal-fired plants, Eraring is nearing the end of its life.

NSW taxpayers spared cost of keeping giant coal-fired power station open

Using taxpayers’ money to extend the life of Eraring would have put the NSW Labor government on course for a clash with renewable energy advocates and climate campaigners.

  • Alexandra Smith

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Shell’s Prelude floating LNG vessel off the WA coast flaring excess gas. WA was the only state to reserve gas for its local market.

In Australia’s energy dilemma, Japan may end up selling us our own gas

The humiliation of Australia, the energy superpower, is now a very real prospect as we face the need to buy gas from our biggest customer.

  • Colin Kruger
Nationals leader David Littleproud during a doorstop interview in the press gallery at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday 24 March 2025.

Nationals leader promises lower power prices within years

The Coalition had avoided making the vow after Labor was burned by its 2022 promise to drop power prices by $275.

  • Olivia Ireland and Mike Foley
NSW and Victoria are running out of gas and have little option but to import it.

Minutes to midnight: Why Australia may soon be burning foreign gas

Australia may be one of the biggest sellers of gas overseas but supplies of the fuel are running dangerously low in NSW, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania.

  • Nick Toscano
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are at odds over the country’s energy future.

Investors take aim at Coalition as nuclear debate hits boiling point

Major investors have stepped into the debate over Australia’s energy future, warning that policies to slow the shift to renewables will push up power prices.

  • Nick Toscano
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

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
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Solar power, paired with longer-lasting batteries, can decarbonise heavy industry and help Australia seize green manufacturing opportunities, says Quinbrook.

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
A Bass Strait oil rig drilling platform off the Victorian coast.

Gas wars erupt as Coalition pledges to unleash ‘bucketloads’ of fuel

An election fight over the future of Australia’s gas industry is heating up as Labor hits out at the Coalition’s ‘cowboy’ promises to overhaul approvals.

  • Nick Toscano and Mike Foley
Australia’s gas expansion. Gas carbon bomb.

Asia wants to cut emissions, so why is it still buying so much Australian gas?

Australia’s top gas shippers forecast a huge lift in demand over the next decade, even as debate continues about the role of gas in the clean energy shift.

  • Nick Toscano
A wind farm project has been halted due to the prospect of Opposition leader Peter Dutton, who has pledged to ban projects around the country, forming government.

In the doldrums: Dutton’s anti-offshore wind agenda halts project

Offshore wind farm developer BlueFloat has paused its offshore wind project, as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton pledges to bar the industry in most locations.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano

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