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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.
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- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Nuclear energy
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
- Phillip Coorey
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.
- Phillip Coorey
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.
- Primrose Riordan and Angela Macdonald-Smith
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.
- Ayesha de Kretser
October
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”.
- Ronald Mizen
- Opinion
- Energy transition
Only the Coalition has credible plan to close coal
Labor’s real game plan is to “extend and pretend”.
- Ted O'Brien
Batteries, solar and maximising the grid pushed to save 2030 target
The Albanese government will need further measures to boost the uptake of renewable energy, or miss its 2030 target, climate tsar Matt Kean has warned.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Phillip Coorey
Cheaper power, better pay in towns that house nuclear: Coalition
Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien puts forward his case for nuclear power.
- Phillip Coorey
Huge cost cuts needed in solar for hydrogen to work: ARENA
The cost of solar power needs to fall by about two-thirds for green hydrogen to work in Australia, says ARENA CEO Darren Miller.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Nuclear too slow to replace coal by 2035
Despite the concerns, some executives and the energy market operator said nuclear should be left on the table as a potential energy source in the long term.
- John Kehoe and Jenny Wiggins
- Opinion
- The AFR View
‘All-too-hardism’ clouds the energy transition’s bigger picture
Chris Bowen’s opening address to The Australian Financial Review’s Energy & Climate Summit took issue with a “pessimistic” narrative.
- The AFR View
2035 emissions target unlikely before election, Bowen suggests
Chris Bowen has hinted that Australia’s 2035 emissions reduction target won’t be announced until later next year.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Energy is a mess. But there’s light at the end of a 30-year tunnel
It’s not going to be easy, but a road map for the energy transition is taking shape and progress is occurring, even if it’s hard to see.
- James Thomson
Why BlueScope needs gas for green transition
BlueScope head of climate change Anna Matysek tells the AFR Energy & Climate Summit iron-making is the "highest abatement use case for gas".
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Bank ban on gas at odds with net zero transition: energy CEOs
Rob Wheals, CEO of the Andrew Forrest owned Squadron Energy, says debanking gas projects is “a problem” given how important it is to underpinning renewables.
- Ronald Mizen
Nuclear 'a completely unrealistic option' for Australia: Bowen
"What kills the nuclear scheme for Australia is not politics, it's facts and reality," Climate and Energy Minister Chris Bowen member for tells the AFR Energy & Climate Summit in Sydney.
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Labor supersizes renewables auction to get climate targets on track
Energy Minister Chris Bowen insists the target for 82 per cent of Australia’s power generation to come from renewables by 2030 can be hit.
- Phillip Coorey and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Energy, manufacturers urge Bowen to rethink on gas
A call to include gas in the Capacity Investment Scheme has exposed divisions between the industry and Chris Bowen
- Phillip Coorey and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Woodside boss urges states to join WA in ending emissions regulation
State governments should consider leaving the policing of greenhouse emissions to Canberra, Meg O’Neill says.
- Tom Rabe and Angela Macdonald-Smith
Gas ignites fight over energy future
Energy Minister Chris Bowen insists there is no reason to underwrite gas projects, but the Coalition and some experts say the technology is essential.
- Jennifer Hewett
WA to leave greenhouse gas policing to Canberra
Western Australia will hand responsibility of policing greenhouse gas emissions of major projects to the federal government, using new constitutional legal advice to justify the move.
- Tom Rabe
Gas power emerges as latest battle front in energy wars
A Coalition government would include gas power in an underwriting scheme for the build-out of clean energy generation, shadow minister Ted O’Brien says.
- Phillip Coorey and Angela Macdonald-Smith
‘Material miss’: Ampol refining profits smashed
The petrol and diesel retailer has warned of a $100 million profit hit due to a plunge in refining margins and operational disruptions at its Brisbane plant.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
WoodMac bursts the Santos cost bubble
It’s the CEO’s mantra, his muse, his North Star. But is Santos’ low-cost reputation as solid as repetition would make it?
- Myriam Robin
