Today
Older, ‘cheaper’ houses hide costs that bite owners
More than 80 per cent of Australia’s houses have half the energy efficiency of the latest standards – and that’s going to make them less valuable.
- Michael Bleby
This Month
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Why Victoria will struggle to sell Mount Baw Baw alpine resort
More than one-third of the resort’s commercial sites are vacant and it doesn’t have enough power to use them all, business owners say.
- Michael Bleby
November
Energy efforts run into reality
The risk of power blackouts is real and rising this summer – along with the costs of frantically trying to avoid that happening,
- Jennifer Hewett
- Updated
- Corruption
Adani charged in US over ‘massive’ bribery scheme
Prosecutors accused the Indian billionaire and others of lying to investors and offering millions in kickbacks to land lucrative renewable energy contracts.
- Updated
- Joe Miller and Stefania Palma
- Exclusive
- Strike Energy
Why the outback could become home for Asian data centres
Paddocks in the middle of Western Australia could become home to a new kind of shed: high-tech data centres offering computing power to cities throughout Asia.
- Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How to keep Australia pumping for another 25 years, and the lights on
The Origin Energy boss has been in his industry and job long enough to know when to fly kites.
- Anthony Macdonald
October
Energy heavyweights banker up for $2b Zenith Energy auction
A couple of sector gorillas have mandated financial advisers for help with due diligence and funding.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
‘I have let you down’: Fortescue’s Hutchinson apologises to gay staff
Fortescue chairman Andrew Forrest says his leaders are required to back equality, prompting a mea culpa from energy boss Mark Hutchinson.
- Peter Ker
PEP, OPTrust pound the pavement for $2b Zenith Energy’s equity search
Zenith builds remote power stations for miners, but has ambitions to power above-ground haulage fleets and other mining processes in the medium term.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- ALP
Coalition says king coal to stay on the throne
The Coalition’s nuclear policy gets most of the attention, but the future of coal will have a starring role in the continuing climate wars.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Opinion
- Opinion
Gas shows the way to more renewables
There’s increasing focus on the crucial role of gas to support the energy transition. But bankers and politicians are yet to get the message.
- Jennifer Hewett
- Exclusive
- Victorian election
AGL, EnergyAustralia coal power deals with Victoria kept secret
The Victorian Labor government has been slammed for keeping secret the cost of deals to underwrite the state’s two coal-fired power plants.
- Patrick Durkin
- Analysis
- China
Rapid rise of LNG trucking pushes China to peak diesel
While the country’s rapid adoption of electric cars has been in the spotlight, significant change has also been taking place in China’s freight industry.
- Ryan McMorrow, Tina Hu and Edward White
Federal Court orders EDO to release 3200 documents in financier search
Santos has been pursuing the activist legal firm, which represented Tiwi Islanders in a failed attempt to stop a $5.8 billion gas project, to find its backers.
- Ayesha de Kretser and Elouise Fowler
China buys nearly all of Iran’s oil exports
The roughly $2.9 billion of sales a month to China bankroll the Iranian government and provide the cash that it needs to pay for its own imports.
- Keith Bradsher
- Updated
- Hydrogen
Origin Energy deals big blow to Australia’s hydrogen hopes
The electricity and gas giant will not proceed with a project in the Hunter, which had been shortlisted for funding as part of Labor’s $2 billion incentive scheme.
- Updated
- Elouise Fowler and Jessica Sier
- Exclusive
- Victorian election
The secret plan to bring a floating LNG terminal to Melbourne
The Victorian government is examining a floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the southwest of Port Phillip Bay.
- Patrick Durkin
- Exclusive
- Adam Bandt
Boost domestic gas supply or risk the Greens, King tells producers
Resources Minister Madeleine King has warned the gas sector it risks damaging its social licence if it does not boost supply and lower prices.
- Ronald Mizen and Tom Rabe
Peak-demand utility expands solar farm portfolio by a third
CleanPeak Energy has bought three farms from a European company listed on the Warsaw, Prague and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges.
- Elouise Fowler
Data centre market doubling in four years is conservative: CBRE
The latest CBRE research indicates the upward trajectory of data centre growth would be even faster if not for energy shortfalls.
- Campbell Kwan
