Yesterday
CSIRO doubles down on nuclear power as too costly, slow
The science agency’s latest report on future energy needs comes just ahead of the long-awaited costings for Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
This Month
The Pilbara plots its path from diesel to clean, green mining
Port Hedland is bang in the middle of the country’s industrial engine. There are ambitious plans to decarbonise with miles of transmission and new generation.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Emergency market operator moves to plug gaps ahead of hot, wet summer
The energy market operator has placed emergency energy reserves on standby ahead of the hottest months of the year and warned about managing gas supplies.
- James Hall
APA plots path from gas to become a Pilbara solar and batteries giant
The company, which opened its latest electricity project in Port Hedland on Tuesday, expects to tick off on more investments in the region within a year.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
South Australia in urgent bid to restart diesel power plants
A $2.3 billion power cable linking SA and NSW is behind schedule, stoking concerns that SA – which has no coal-fired power – could face reliability issues.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
November
- Exclusive
- Energy transition
‘Nothing’s off the table’: Expert panel to overhaul electricity market
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has tapped former AGL Energy executive Tim Nelson and three other industry specialists to review the National Energy Market.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Generators scramble after NSW’s near miss on blackouts
More than 2000 megawatts of coal power capacity is due back online within 10 days, as generators scramble to avoid a repeat of Wednesday’s close shave on the NSW power grid.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
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
NSW grid scrapes through power crisis, bigger test ahead
NSW was set to narrowly avoid blackouts on Wednesday only due to emergency measures, a situation that has unnerved industry and consumers.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Generator sales jump as summer blackout fears persist
“I reckon I’ll be using it tonight,” said one owner. Despite the concern, the energy market operator said the immediate chance of a power failure had subsided.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Blackout risk lingers in NSW as coal outages hit
The tight electricity supply in the state follows an unusually large number of unexpected outages at coal power units.
- Updated
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Carbon challenge
Labor failing gas industry on lawfare, approvals: O’Neill
Meg O’Neill said the Albanese government’s lack of progress on streamlining gas approval processes and reining in “lawfare” risks imperilling energy security.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Exclusive
- Energy transition
The country’s biggest aluminium smelter says green target unreachable
Rio Tinto-backed Tomago, which uses more power than any other industrial operation in Australia, says renewable energy is too expensive and in short supply.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Trump’s new energy secretary linked to Beetaloo Basin gas project
Chris Wright’s Liberty Energy is behind the fracking fleet used for extraction from developing fields in the Northern Territory.
- Updated
- Matthew Cranston
Nuclear ban holds Australia back from data centre opportunity
Craig Scroggie says without a ‘logical conversation’ on nuclear, Australia may miss an opportunity to grab an outsized chunk of the booming data centre industry.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
October
Luring investment in Aussie hydrogen a tough task: King
Resources Minister Madeleine King says drawing Japanese investment in Australian hydrogen projects was difficult because of existing global subsidies.
- Updated
- Jessica Sier
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
NSW to introduce 2034 target for long storage
NSW Energy Minister Penny Sharpe says the legislated goal will show investors the government has a long-term commitment to storage.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith and Phillip Coorey
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
Senegal oil powers record quarter for Woodside
News of the rapid ramp-up of the new oil project came as the International Energy Agency warned about locking in fossil fuel use.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
