Power network
Big BESS: State’s largest power bank to be built in WA’s South West
A $400 million Battery Energy Storage System will use lithium-ion battery technology to support the WA power grid through wind and solar energy.
- by Claire Ottaviano
Latest
‘You know my position’: The other question the LNP struggles with
David Crisafulli will not say whether – or how – he would thwart Peter Dutton’s plan for nuclear reactors in Queensland.
- by William Davis
How a country of 10 million people was left without power
The entire population of Cuba was plunged into a countrywide blackout on Friday. But how did it get to this point?
- by Dave Sherwood
Florence the machine to get a boring friend at Snowy 2.0
A fourth giant tunnelling machine will be added to the Snowy 2.0 pumped-hydro project in a bid to keep it on track.
- by Mike Foley
Opinion
Opinion
Western Power ignored my broken meter and made wild guesses at my usage instead
I wasn’t too worried about the issue at first. But when I saw the bills showing Synergy getting creative on how much power it decided I used, I got uneasy.
- by Sarah Brookes
Exclusive
Perth
Bill shock: Why almost 50,000 West Australians could be paying more than they should for power
Bill estimation is common practice around the world, but just how prevalent is it in WA?
- by Sarah Brookes
Opinion
Power outage
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
Court dismisses environmental challenge to Snowy Hydro 2.0 power lines
The NSW government exempted the Snowy Hydro 2.0 scheme from a long-standing ban on above ground transmission lines. Now a legal bid to overturn that decision has failed.
- by Michael Koziol
Explainer
Energy prices
How your electricity bill gets worked out
Supplying the demand for power in homes can be a high-intensity balancing act. Why aren’t renewables making our bills cheaper? What’s behind the cost of our power?
- by Angus Holland and Jackson Graham
Power play: Portland smelter future, jobs secured with new electricity deal
AGL and Alcoa have struck a nine-year deal to provide power to an energy-intensive aluminium plant in Portland.
- by Benjamin Preiss
Updated
Earnings season
AGL’s $10b shift from coal to clean power ‘on target’
The power giant has swung to a heavy loss after a chaotic 12 months for the east-coast energy market, but flags better times ahead as electricity prices rise.
- by Nick Toscano
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