Energy
Nation’s biggest power plant burns most coal since 2019
The Eraring power station’s coal output has hit a five-year-high, highlighting the difficulties of weaning the grid off the polluting fossil fuel.
- by Nick Toscano
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Forrest’s Fortescue boosts spending to keep green hydrogen dream alive
Mining giant says it will lift spending on its green energy division this year despite setbacks tempering its ambitious green hydrogen targets.
- by Nick Toscano
Electricity prices rise as cold spell and wind drought bite
Electricity costs are climbing again after a stretch of cold weather coincided with a wind power drought, forcing expensive gas plants to fill the gap.
- by Nick Toscano
Woodside in talks to form ‘dream team’ for US gas exports
Oil and gas giant Woodside is in talks to pull together a team of potential partners to help launch its new LNG terminal in the United States to muscle into the market.
- by Nick Toscano
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States pump up ‘key technology’ to get households off gas
Australia’s eastern states are facing looming gas shortages, and home owners are set to be targeted to reduce their use.
- by Mike Foley
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Woodside chases global LNG ‘powerhouse’ crown with latest deal
Australia’s top oil and gas company has agreed to buy US LNG developer Tellurian and a huge new export terminal it has started building in Louisiana.
- by Nick Toscano
Can the Voices model help communities fight off nuclear reactors?
Coal communities across the country – facing the loss of industry, jobs and the social fabric that binds them together – are poised to transition from the coal that built their histories.
- by Bianca Hall and Mike Foley
EVs charge to the front – and to the rescue – in clean power reforms
Electric vehicles are a key target of reforms that aim to harness the wave of new, clean energy technology.
- by Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
‘Reckless renewables’: The NSW community fighting a massive solar farm
The residents of the tiny hamlet of Wallaroo in the Southern Tablelands say they support renewables, but the proposal for a giant solar farm on their doorstep is in the wrong location.
- by Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Light at the end of the tunnel: After seven weeks wedged in rock, Florence is finally free
The giant tunnel boring machine has been stuck for months in hard rock deep below the Kosciuszko National Park.
- by Mike Foley
No time to waste on another climate war, big business warns
Energy and manufacturing giants are refusing to back the Coalition’s rejection of Australia’s 2030 climate targets, and want to accelerate the green power shift.
- by Nick Toscano and Mike Foley