Australia could double the number of household solar batteries installed in a year, figures reveal, as consumers rush to take advantage of a subsidy.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The privately-owned group has appointed PKF’s Perth corporate finance team to raise $US12m to launch an integrated waste processing and renewable baseload energy project in the Philippines.
Sean Smith
Beach Energy has copped a $674 million writedown thanks to lower sale prices and poorer than expected performance of Perth Basin assets.
Matt Mckenzie
Australia’s long-held ambitions to tap its abundant renewable resources and vast uninhabited landmass to become a global green hydrogen leader is fast unravelling.
Keira Wright, Sing Yee Ong, William Mathis and Will Wade
The State Government is doing “everything it can” to meet its target to shut down coal by 2030, Energy Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson said as construction of a major wind farm project kicks off.
By assuming operating control of east coast’s Australia most important energy source from ExxonMobil, Woodside takes responsibility for the Bass Strait gas production assets and associated gas plants.
Small nuclear reactors are by far the most expensive new build energy-generating projects, a study has found, while renewable sources remain the cheapest.
Australia should set bolder targets to cut pollution and produce renewable energy, the UN says, to secure green exports and avoid further climate harm.
The Australian oil and gas sector is paying taxes and royalties equivalent to the entire cost of the cherished Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, according to a lobby group.
Adrian Rauso
One of the nation's largest energy projects - a $5.5 billion undersea cable - is at risk as one state is accused of suppressing vital information.
Samantha Lock
Peter Coleman’s bid to rescue hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy has been endorsed by creditors and the former Woodside boss is set to return as chair.
Construction of a green hydrogen precinct in the Pilbara using $140 million of taxpayer cash is still moving forward despite BP exiting a key project the initiative could support.
Adrian Rauso & Matt Mckenzie
An investigation of Synergy’s billing bungle, that resulted in almost 3000 vulnerable customers being overcharged, will be required to report back by October.
Jessica Page
Fortescue has agreed to pay back taxpayer funds that were poured into a nixed green hydrogen project “where required”, following pressure from the Albanese Government.
Daniel Newell
Plans to build the massive Australian Renewable Energy Hub in the Pilbara have taken a blow as petroleum giant BP exits the green hydrogen project.
Woodside has taken a $170m hit exiting an American hydrogen project while the company has also revealed it must rethink decommissioning plans for old oil and gas fields.
Matt Mckenzie & Simone Grogan
Disruptions to households are inevitable during the construction of Western Australia’s largest energy infrastructure project according to Energy and Decarbonisation Minister Amber-Jade Sanderson.
Oliver Lane
Carnarvon Energy is taking up a 19.9 per cent stake in gas play Strike in a deal seen underpinning the latter’s $300 million expansion in the Perth Basin.
A $7m proposal to buy collapsed hydrogen hopeful Infinite Green Energy out of administration has finally emerged, backed by former Woodside boss Peter Coleman.
WA’s peak business lobby has warned the engine room of the nation’s economy could be pushed “further over the edge” if Jim Chalmers’ economic roundtable proposes higher taxes for the mining and energy sectors.
Acciona’s bid to buy the East Rockingham waste to energy plant out of administration has worried the competition watchdog.
From households fitted with solar panels to electric car drivers and business operators, a new research centre aims to model nationwide trends in energy use.
Synergy was taking money from some of the State’s most vulnerable for services they did not want or receive.
Editorial
A scaled back home battery rebate has received less than 2,000 applications since it opened on July 1, but the Energy Minister insists a ‘steady stream’ is better than a rush.
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