Yesterday
Albanese’s domestic solar manufacturing hero strikes China pact
The face of the federal government’s plan to build a domestic solar panel manufacturing industry has partnered with a Chinese giant in pursuit of Australian subsidies.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
This Month
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.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Woodside steps up partner quest for Louisiana LNG
Big names such as Saudi Aramco are being cited as potential investors in the US export project in a move that could ease fears about a decline in dividends.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Homes in Albury, Gladstone to use gas-hydrogen blend
About 40,000 homes and businesses Albury-Wodonga will get 10 per cent hydrogen mixed in with their gas next year, in one bright spot for the clean hydrogen industry.
- Exclusive
- Renewables
IKEA ups stake as giant wind farm comes online
TagEnergy CEO Franck Woitiez says the company’s Golden Plains project shows wind farms can be built without government support.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why this ASX dinosaur may be a smart AI play
The global data centre boom is already having an impact on Australia’s energy sector and over time it could help boost the profits of an ASX giant.
- James Thomson
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
Relief rally for APA on gas pipeline decision
Energy-intensive manufacturers say the ruling still leaves them worried about supply shortages in the southern states.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Sanity prevails as gas players fight back against heavier regulation
Pipelines owner APA secured a win for big business fighting the threat of heavier regulation. It didn’t do it alone.
- Anthony Macdonald
Cashed-up NSW coal power owner jilted by banks
Sev.en Global’s Delta has requested an urgent change to the rules for the electricity market after being unable to extend a bank guarantee because of its coal links.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
Power prices surge as renewables output flatlines
A drop in output from solar farms and another increase in coal power output in the third quarter add evidence of the road bumps in the energy transition.
- Angela Macdonald-Smith
- Updated
- Energy
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
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What really killed Origin’s big hydrogen dream
It’s becoming clear that optimism, ambition and government support are not enough to compensate for the risks facing hydrogen project developers like Origin Energy.
- James Thomson
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
OPTrust, Partners Group seek $500m exit at Victoria’s Ararat wind farm
The 75-turbine Ararat was Australia’s third-largest wind farm in terms of planned capacity when it started being built in 2015. Now, it is up for grabs.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
September
Drifting former telco turned Austrian miner gets unstuck in Mongolia
Jade Gas has bounced around for three decades, and is trying its luck with coal seam gas in the ex-communist country. Could this be the ASX’s next gas giant?
- Elouise Fowler
Payments for rooftop solar slashed as energy grid overloads
Households with rooftop solar will get up to a third less for supplying their energy to the grid as retailers cut rates in response to an oversupply.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Opinion
- Renewables
No end to Australia’s love affair with solar
Rapidly declining solar feed-in tariffs could change the way Australian households manage their renewable energy. That is bound to be good for the grid.
- Tony Boyd
Investors in Vik Bansal’s biogas side hustle are up 85pc
The Boral CEO is also chairman of ASX-listed biogas group LGI, which has 32 waste landfill sites and supplies electricity into the grid when returns are highest.
- Simon Evans
UniSuper faces uprising from scientists over its support of gas
More than 1000 members of the $140 billion industry super fund have signed a letter to its board demanding it leverage its influence over APA Group or risk greenwashing.
- Hannah Wootton
