Future Power
Twice the grunt or half the weight – Australia’s plans to build a better battery
Double the energy for the same size is the goal for the next generation of rechargeable batteries. Batteries that Australia hopes to make at home.
- by Mike Foley
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Victoria’s blackout crisis is rooted in a decade of Coalition inaction
These mass outages would have been avoided, or their impact dramatically reduced with a shortened recovery period, if we’d had large-scale investment in transitioning the electricity grid to renewables.
- by Tim Buckley
No more freezing kids in sleeping bags: How the Nunns escaped a house of misery
The Nunn family baked in summer and froze in winter in their Sydney cottage. Building an energy-efficient home changed everything, including their ability to repay their mortgage faster.
- by Julie Power
Big sheds get electric boost as Goodman customers drive sustainability
Industrial property giant Goodman Group is future-proofing its sheds with reinforced roofs, solar panels, rain water harvesting, large electrical conduits, EV charge points, drone access and big batteries.
- by Simon Johanson
Australia risks being ‘left behind’ as EU bans fossil fuel cars from 2035
Major carmakers say Australia will be left with the cars no one else will take if it doesn’t get behind EVs, after the EU’s decision to ban the sale of fossil fuel cars and vans within 12 years.
- by Miki Perkins
Fracking, coal seam gas ‘not legal any time soon’, Andrews insists
The Victorian premier hit back at Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King’s suggestion that the state’s ban on fracking was a barrier to fixing the energy crisis.
- by Josh Gordon
Bass Strait gas output ramps up as demand and prices soar
A pipeline has been rerouted in the Bass Strait as ExxonMobil seeks to ramp up output to meet soaring demand.
- by Nick Toscano
Herding cats with Anna Collyer to keep the nation’s lights on
There are two organisations at the heart of the complex web of governments and public and private institutions that provide our power. Anna Collyer runs them both.
- by Nick O'Malley
From blazing Perth to the edge of the Arctic for green jobs
An Australian couple has joined the “green rush” to a small town in Sweden which has become one of the first boomtowns of the EU’s green industrial revolution.
- by Richard Orange
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Is this the secret to saving humanity?
The better question for our future selves might not be, what world do I want to leave behind, but what world am I proud to leave?
- by Dewi Cooke
‘The skyline changed’: End of an era for power station as new energy chapter begins
The Wallerawang power plant’s two chimneys have towered over the town for decades, but on Wednesday they were demolished as the town looks to the future.
- by Laura Chung
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