Energy Industry

Iran's threats to attack vessels in one of the most important shipping passages will strain global supply of oil and gas, experts say — and Australia will not be immune from the fallout.

Amid soaring prices and rising levels of energy hardship, the regulator wants to strengthen the protections for vulnerable customers. 

Landholders call for a proposed 500-megawatt battery energy storage project to be moved amid concerns it will impact on housing developments in South Australia's second largest city.

The benefits of extremely low energy prices during the day are "washed away" by extremely high ones after dark. But there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Even as Australia appears to have passed the peak of solar uptake, demand for batteries is seemingly headed into orbit.

Ongoing dry conditions across South Australia since 2024 are causing dust and salt to build up across inland and coastal power networks, polluting insulators and leading to mass blackouts.

Since 2022, the WA government has already tipped $300 million into propping up the insolvent Indian-owned miner, which is more than $1 billion in debt.

The operator of Australia's largest coal-fired power station is to extend the life of its plant in the NSW Hunter Valley for another two years.

In a move labelled a sign of the times, energy firm AGL was last week offering customers money to cut use during a heatwave.

About 150 jobs will be created by a new "green cement" project at a power station site which has sat vacant for nearly a decade, the SA government says.

It took just 41 kilograms of explosives and less than a minute — a remnant of the 1970s fossil fuel age is blown to bits to make way for a methanol fuel plant.

For so long, the pounding sunshine of an Australian heatwave was the grid's biggest threat. It has now become its greatest asset. 

With the Federal Government ditching its $300 annual electricity subsidy Australian households will soon be paying the true cost of their bills. 

Regional ratepayers are shouldering higher energy bills than their city counterparts, and their councils have had enough.

Australians' electricity bills have become a nightmare of complexity and high prices. An energy regulator says subscription fees could be an answer.

Soaring costs and trenchant criticism from some put the brakes on wind and transmission as the sun shines on big solar and batteries.

The gas-rich Beetaloo Basin in the Northern Territory has been in development for years — now, the NT government says the gas will finally flow from 2026.

Territorians are being urged to prepare for the possibility of rolling blackouts over Christmas, after damaging winds from ex-Tropical Cyclone Fina forced the shutdown of the NT's main gas supply.

An energy watchdog says more renewable energy is projected to lower prices, but others warn the promise is illusory and more pain is coming.

The NSW government's flagship renewable energy project has come under fire after trees containing dozens of hatchlings were cut down.