Building a climate-first economic future, from the ground up Editors' Picks The 2022 election was won off the back of overwhelming demand for urgent climate action, with a large teal wave shining a spotlight on citizen
Crisis measures: What public servants are doing to reckon with Australia’s energy supply July 5, 2022 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment Officials from the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission will temporarily lift competition rules in the gas and electricity markets to support the nation’s energy supply
After nine years, Australia has something like an energy policy June 9, 2022 By Bernard Keane Editors' Picks Well, CoalKeeper looks dead after yesterday’s meeting of energy ministers to address the east coast energy crisis. Coal and gas haven’t been explicitly excluded from the “capacity
Premium Interviews Decarbonising Australia needs a plan and vision from public servants February 14, 2022 By Melissa Coade Community & Social Continuing to clutch to coal and fossil fuels is doing Australia no favours in the race to solve global warming and climate change, and one
Federal funding flows to zero emissions aquatic centre July 29, 2021 By Melissa Coade Community & Social The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) is backing an Australian-first project to build an integrated energy system for an indoor leisure and aquatic centre that
Callide Power Station’s third generating unit up and running July 26, 2021 By Melissa Coade Energy & Environment An accidental fire caused by a series of explosions at a power station in May cut electricity to half a million buildings and contributed to
Nikola Tesla: 5G network could realise his dream of wireless electricity, a century after experiments failed April 12, 2021 By Elena Gaura and James Peter Brusey Communications & Technology At the height of his career, the pioneering electrical engineer Nikola Tesla became obsessed with an idea. He theorised that electricity could be transmitted wirelessly
Opinion: Texas was a warning. Australia needs to rethink the design of its electricity market March 1, 2021 By Bruce Mountain Editors' Picks Australia’s electricity market is unsustainable. Texas shows us why. A week ago Texas experienced a bout of severe weather as arctic air reached deep into
NSW energy roadmap expected to lower power prices, create jobs, and ‘diversify’ state’s energy mix November 10, 2020 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment The New South Wales government has unveiled a 20-year plan expected to deliver $32 billion of private sector investment in electricity infrastructure by 2030, including
Energy price comparison sites are bad news for consumers – here’s how to fix them July 21, 2020 By Miklós Antal Editors' Picks When it comes to electricity and gas, consumers in many countries choose between a wide range of tariffs. In the UK there are hundreds of
Premium Insights and analysis Waste heat: the overlooked energy problem, and how to solve it February 25, 2020 By Anastasiya Ernays-Eskarsa Economy & Industry With the exponential increase in the number of data centres and electronic devices over the last decade, waste heat has become a big but overlooked
Energy sector rule-maker resigns October 28, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment The head of the agency in charge of regulating Australia’s energy market has stepped down. Chief executive of the Australian Energy Market Commission Anne Pearson
Energy minister rejects audit findings and 'will not apologise' for publicly funded ads August 27, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Energy & Environment Federal Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor has told Auditor-General Grant Hehir that he’s not sorry for “empowering Australians” through taxpayer-funded advertising. The
Privatisation is 'short-sighted', says NSW opposition August 16, 2019 By Shannon Jenkins Economy & Industry NSW Labor will oppose privatisations that were floated by Premier Gladys Berejiklian while at a trade delegation in London. Shadow Treasurer Walt Secord and Shadow
