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Labor’s scheme will become less generous and be phased out faster under the top options being considered by the federal government.
Activist Greta Thunberg has condemned Australia’s record on climate action, comparing the speed of the country’s efforts to cut emissions to that of a snail.
Anthony Albanese is not an enthusiastic attendee at this year’s COP climate summit. At least it’s on the other side of the world.
Labor could be forced to make key changes to secure Coalition support for its plan to reserve up to 20 per cent of export gas for domestic use.
One of the world’s leading research facilities for mining decarbonisation will close in 2027 unless governments commit to new funding arrangements.
The charges directed at officials from Taiwan-based HDRE could complicate efforts by banks to recover loans on a struggling big battery project.
Decarbonisation is a failure. The alternative is adaptation, which directly counters impacts of global warming by making humans’ physical environment and infrastructure more resilient.
Jim Chalmers’ push to rein in the expensive home battery rebate program is being strongly resisted by Energy Minister Chris Bowen.
State governments are pursuing green goals with different levels of urgency. But it’s market fundamentals that are changing Australia’s power grid.
The Origin Energy-backed Golden Beach gas project has entered administration, sharpening concerns about how Victoria will meet peak winter demand.
A wind farm owned by the iron ore magnate is one of two to receive approval just days before the Victorian government went into caretaker mode.
Sustained demand for home battery systems is fuelling calls to rethink the federal government’s $7.2 billion home battery scheme.
The monument needs more to be spent to finish it than has already been spent. The one piece of good news is that policymakers can resist the sunk-cost fallacy.
A bitter fight over the future of a 475-kilometre power cable in northern Victoria has turned the state’s election into a referendum on the green transition.
The federal government’s green power mandate for energy-hungry server facilities will have harsh rules for those that fail to comply.
The 2-gigawatt Borumba project is the latest pumped hydro scheme facing an uncertain future, after three others were scrapped by the Crisafulli government.
Reports by the government’s top climate adviser require a graduate degree to understand. For the enemies of the green transition, that’s an opportunity.
The expansion of the massive hydroelectric project was expected to cost around $2 billion when announced in 2017. Instead, it is heading toward $25 billion.
Energy Minister Chris Bowen has put the heat on electricity retailers to pass on the benefits of record low wholesale power prices.
The project is one of the biggest and most complex undertaken by the federal government, and was first proposed by then-prime minister Malcolm Turnbull.
The huge Snowy 2.0 hydro project is massively delayed and over budget – but its supporters say it will all be worth it in the long run.
One of the world’s biggest public retirement savings funds has made its first ever direct investment in Australia’s clean energy rollout.
For Australian businesses, reducing dependence on imported fuel makes them less vulnerable to global price shocks. It would also create demand for reliable domestic electricity supply.
The nation’s diesel consumption is set to surge 7 per cent by the end of the decade, despite efforts to encourage switching to electric alternatives.
The insurer says a plan to charge all electricity customers for the rollout of electric vehicle chargers could undermine support for the green transition.
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