Energy storage
Cannon-Brookes’ record-breaking solar farm plan gets Plibersek’s tick
The project to build Australia’s largest solar farm has been approved after collapsing last year due to a rift between billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest.
- by Mike Foley
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Renewables
Half an hour of power: Renewables’ record surge a sign of future supply
The energy regulator says renewables could dominate the electricity grid within the decade – if the grid gets the right upgrades.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
Should Australia house a giant vacuum cleaner to suck carbon from the sky?
Removing carbon from the atmosphere to save us from climate change is a controversial notion, but faith is growing in some new technologies.
- by Nick O'Malley
Analysis
Nuclear energy
Nuclear debate is getting heated, but whose energy plan stacks up?
Will the government’s renewables plan cost $1 trillion? Is nuclear energy cheaper? Can a reactor be up and running by 2037? We answer the nuclear debate’s biggest questions.
- by Mike Foley
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Political leadership
Australian voters back plans to keep gas on tap
The poll found that 75 per cent of voters supported a domestic gas reservation policy to ensure a steady supply of gas to households and businesses.
- by James Massola
The tale of two households: Behind the new grid charges for excess solar
Australia has the highest rooftop solar penetration in the world, which brings both opportunities for decarbonisation and challenges for the grid.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Nearly a million NSW households face new charges for solar exports
Regional electricity distributors Essential Energy and Endeavour Energy joined Ausgrid in announcing charges for solar customers exporting too much energy in the middle of the day.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Dangerous heat kills dozens, closes schools, prompts four-day workweek
Several countries in South-East Asia are grappling with a heatwave that has turned into tragedy in Thailand and is forcing power plant closures elsewhere.
- by Neil Jerome Morales
Opinion
Opinion
Buildings as batteries? We need bright ideas like this
Office blocks have an important part to play in our efforts to limit further climate change. How? Keep reading.
- by Ross Gittins
Power giants fear green scheme will shut out crucial projects
Pumped hydro projects are at risk of missing out on contracts under the federal government’s green energy financing scheme, despite warnings they are critically needed.
- by Nick Toscano
Syrah riding the wave of global critical minerals race
Australia’s only integrated producer and refiner of natural graphite says it will avoid the meltdown roiling the nickel and lithium sector.
- by Simon Johanson
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