Yesterday
Union backs Boral in emissions bunfight
The AWU warns against investment funds “hounding” companies on emissions targets to the point where industry is at risk.
- Simon Evans
This Month
No escape from hot weather or high power prices this summer
A big fall in wholesale power prices this year won’t be reflected on household power bills until July, if the grid survives a predicted long, hot summer.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
Vale Bill Hayden, a complex high achiever who helped shape Australia
Moody and often difficult, Bill Hayden played a major role ushering in reforms including Medicare, opening up the economy, and Australia’s engagement with Asia.
- Andrew Clark
NSW Libs learnt a lesson at the referendum – here’s how they’ll use it
The NSW Liberals are re-drawing a target seat list of the electorates they believe are now in play after the referendum
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson
- Opinion
- Energy
Why Origin takeover is not a done deal
Arguments over the proposed takeover of Origin Energy demonstrate the confusion about energy transition. What is clear is that the business is performing well.
- Jennifer Hewett
$100m loan makes NSW first recipient of $20b Rewiring the Nation fund
Clean Energy Finance Corporation has allocated a $100 million loan towards NSW’s electricity infrastructure road map to help it deliver 12GW of projects by 2030.
- Mark Ludlow
‘The capital is there.’ So what’s stalling the energy transition?
Problems around new transmission means Australia may fall short of its 2030 targets, but political will, capital and renewable resources remain strong drivers for the transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Mark Ludlow
Bowen vows ‘entire government apparatus’ readying to avoid blackouts
The Australian Energy Market Operator said it had sought expressions of interest to provide extra supply in Victoria and South Australia to avoid power outages this summer.
- Mark Ludlow and Ben Potter
- Opinion
- Energy
Bowen and D’Ambrosio insist targets should be hard to achieve
Chris Bowen says the renewable energy targets have to be difficult to meet or there’s no point having them. But what is Plan B if - as is likely - they are too hard?
- Jennifer Hewett
- Updated
- Mergers & acquisitions
ACCC cites energy transition in approving Origin’s $18.7b takeover
A surge in Origin’s shares after its suitors won competition approval for their takeover offer has added further pressure for a bump-up in the offer price.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Show us nuclear costs, Chris Bowen tells Peter Dutton
The Energy Minister has called the opposition dishonest for suggesting that nuclear power could be cheaper than renewables.
- Jenny Wiggins
In a world of turmoil, Labor reassures that gas exports are a priority
Resources Minister Madeleine King says the needs of trusted partners like Japan and Korea will be central to Labor’s gas strategy.
- Peter Ker and Mark Ludlow
Bowen’s $387b nuclear price tag ‘doesn’t make sense’
A Westinghouse Electric executive argued bringing nuclear into the energy grid could be done far more cheaply, as the Coalition said it would consider overturning the ban.
- Jenny Wiggins
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
Labor angst over nuclear power stations ‘hypocritical’
Westinghouse senior vice president Rita Baranwal says it is two-faced for the government to support nuclear submarines but not nuclear power.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
- Exclusive
- Energy & Climate Summit
‘Go hard, be brave’, says $15b green bank boss
National Reconstruction Fund chairman Martijn Wilder said Australia needs a WWII-style “Marshall Plan” to decarbonise the economy fast.
- Ben Potter
- Exclusive
- Energy
Japan and Australia pledge deeper ties on energy, climate
Japan’s trade and energy minister met three senior Labor ministers on Sunday to discuss the effect of Australia’s emissions rules on future LNG projects.
- Michael Smith, Elouise Fowler and Ronald Mizen
Household subsidies needed to kick-start demand response: Schott
Former energy regulator says the Albanese government should offer subsidies to households to use power outside peak times to speed up the energy transition.
- Ben Potter
Hit more polluters with emission cuts, OECD urges Labor
The OECD is urging Labor to broaden its flagship emissions reduction policy as it warns Australia is not on track to meet its net zero emissions target.
- Michael Read
September
Fire at Genex Power battery project in Qld a ‘rare occurrence’
Genex Power chief executive Craig Francis says too early to tell cause of fire at 50-megawatt Bouldercombe battery project near Rockhampton.
- Updated
- Mark Ludlow
- Opinion
- Energy
Nuclear power is a non-starter - there’s a bigger problem to fix
Arguments about nuclear power won’t help the urgent problems of energy transition, with a growing gap between reality and Australia’s renewable energy plans.
- Jennifer Hewett
