Renewables
Everything you need to know about Labor’s home battery promise
One in three households have solar panels but only one in 40 have a home battery. That could be about to change.
- Caitlin Fitzsimmons
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- Opinion
- Australia votes
Energy’s a big part of living costs, but fixing it won’t be cheap
Voters seem permanently obsessed with energy prices, and they’ve figured in most election campaigns for decades. But it’s mainly been smoke and mirrors.
- Ross Gittins
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
- Exclusive
- Chris Bowen
Residents opposed this solar farm. Then the government changed the rules
A massive solar farm near Geelong will be fast-tracked after opponents, including Catriona Rowntree, waged a campaign against it
- Bianca Hall
$814 million for green hydrogen dream near Kalbarri
Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen was in Kwinana to announce the Murchison Green Hydrogen project.
- Hamish Hastie
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
Scientists warn $100 billion ‘green’ project will destroy WA heritage
A plan to build 3000 wind turbines and six million solar panels in WA to make hydrogen and ammonia is in an area experts call “an irreplaceable global treasure”.
- Emma Young
- Exclusive
- Sophie Scamps
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
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