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Winning over regions crucial to a ‘hard and fast’ energy transition
The renewables transition must do more than simply keep the lights on for Australia’s regional communities, energy experts have warned.
Energy industry searches for signals
Australian households are enthusiastic about rooftop solar and batteries, but large-scale investment in the transition to renewables is more mixed.
Household batteries could prove a boon for owners, and for the grid
Retailers need to get in gear and make more attractive offers to connect a huge resource of storage and solar generation to the national market.
Labor should seize the decarbonisation policy certainty challenge
Albanese’s government should focus on nailing down the policy settings needed to accelerate emission cuts and connect more clean generation and storage to the mains.
Bowen lashes Queensland government plan to keep coal firing for longer
The energy minister says a strategy that could mean fossil fuel generation runs for decades could create investment uncertainty for new renewable power.
October 2025
Labor’s climate chief takes aim at ‘insane’ diesel subsidy
Climate Change Authority chairman Matt Kean said the rebate, heavily backed by resources companies, would better be spent on electrification technologies.
Energy’s ‘sliding doors moment’ is about politics, not technology
The rooftop solar boom shows what happens when the right tech meets the right policy settings. But the investment settings across energy are still not right.
Energy users warn of industrial ‘tragedy’ from ‘broken’ gas market
But big industrial gas consumers including Rio Tinto say any government intervention should be a bridge to the future, and not become a permanent subsidy.
Origin chief warns Australia ‘out of time’ to tinker with energy shift
Frank Calabria said the government had one final chance to put in place policies to encourage long-term investment as other executives called for certainty.
Data centres will soon make up 12 per cent of energy demand: AEMO
The Australian Energy Market Commission says data centre regulation should not be a “handbrake” on the economic opportunity.
‘Run out of time’: Same old problems link energy and housing crises
It’s a familiar story – years of underinvestment, poor policy decisions and rising costs. In energy, crunch time has arrived.
‘You are the user’: Scroggie flips the data centre power debate
Data centre owners’ biggest non-financial risk is that one day when they apply to connect a new site to the grid, the energy market operator might say no.
WA promises climate target next year as states clash on gas exports
The West Australian government said it would legislate its ambitions next year, joining eastern states on top of the Commonwealth’s emissions reduction goals.
NSW energy boss says bad renewables developers a ‘contagion’
Paul Binsted, who also chairs Queensland’s Stanwell Corporation, pointed to Victoria’s west where opposition to “heavy-handed” development was causing angst.
Householders need to share batteries to limit transition cost: AEMO
Households need to share batteries for the benefit of the grid to avoid increasing the cost of energy transition, energy market operator CEO Daniel Westerman warned.
Queensland cuts deal with Rinehart to power new gas generator
New measures to shore up gas supply have been announced by the Queensland and NSW governments, amid major policy uncertainty and repeated shortfall warnings.
Origin CEO questions offshore wind as another project falls over
Energy boss Frank Calabria says the sector needs much more support to be viable in Australia, as Germany’s RWE ditches its Victorian project due to high costs.
September 2025
Canadian pension giant takes $1.1b punt on Australian renewables
La Caisse has struck a deal to buy solar and storage developer Edify Energy in its first move into the fast-growing domestic sector.
November 2024
Energy bill fears grow as transmission costs blow out
Billions of dollars of cost blowouts in transmission announced so far this year have fuelled worries about rising electricity bills for households and business.
October 2024
CSIRO might revise nuclear power cost claims
The CSIRO says it is prepared to reconsider its estimate that nuclear power would cost up to twice as much as that generated by firmed renewables
Coalition pledges nuclear details before Christmas
The sheer upfront cost of nuclear energy requires taxpayers to build and own the seven nuclear power plants, the opposition says.
Singapore gives early green light to Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Sun Cable
The venture intends constructing a large solar plant in Australia’s north before shipping power to Singapore using an undersea cable.
Match overseas incentives to spur Australia’s green exports
Big companies say Australia needs to get on the front foot and match the tax credits, mandates and consumer subsidies to drive green exports and industry.
Why investors still have ‘great opportunity’ on the net zero path
Despite higher interest rates, foreign currency fluctuations and commodity price volatility, investors still see Australia as set for “a rapid amount of growth”.
Only the Coalition has credible plan to close coal
Labor’s real game plan is to “extend and pretend”.
